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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities.

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    If you require to submit a grievance about a violation of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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    We supply trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.

    Our trainings are available virtually and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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    Fair Housing Information

    Find info listed below on who and what is covered under the law.

    The Fair Housing Act restricts discrimination in housing since of:

    - Race.
    - Color.
    - National Origin.
    - Religion.
    - Sex.
    - Familial Status.
    - Disability.
    What Is Prohibited?

    In the Sale and Rental of Housing:

    It is prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions because of race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:

    - Refuse to lease or offer housing.
    - Refuse to work out for housing.
    - Otherwise make housing unavailable.
    - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a house.
    - Provide a person different housing services or facilities.
    - Falsely deny that housing is offered for evaluation, sale or rental.
    - Make, print or release any notice, declaration or ad with respect to the sale or rental of a residence that indicates any preference, constraint or discrimination.
    - Impose various sales rates or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
    - Use different certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
    - Evict a renter or a tenant's guest.
    - Harass a person.
    - Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.
    - Limit advantages, services or centers of a home.
    - Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling.
    - Assign an individual to a particular structure or community or section of a building or area.
    - For earnings, convince, or try to encourage, house owners to offer their homes by suggesting that people of a particular protected characteristic will move into the community (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance since of the race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a dwelling.
    - Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or real estate brokers' company.
    In Mortgage Lending:

    It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary support for a house.
    - Refuse to supply information relating to loans.
    - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or charges.
    - Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.
    - Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
    - Refuse to buy a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to pester persons because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is prohibited discrimination to:

    - Threaten, push, frighten or hinder anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
    - Retaliate against a person who has submitted a reasonable housing complaint or helped in a reasonable housing examination.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a modification, exception, or adjustment to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to clear up lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be necessary to afford individuals with disabilities a level playing field to utilize and take pleasure in a residence and public and typical usage locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing supplier from declining to allow, at the cost of the individual with an impairment, reasonable adjustments of existing premises inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such modifications might be essential to afford such individual complete pleasure of the premises.

    What is Needed for a Grievance
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    To send a housing discrimination grievance these requirements must be fulfilled:

    - The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.
    - The residential or commercial property owner, in a lot of cases, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.