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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

The Fair Housing Act safeguards individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities.

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If you need to submit a problem about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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We provide trainings for housing suppliers, residential or commercial property management and those involved in housing services.

Our trainings are offered essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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Join us on every very first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary webinar for those interested in their rights or those that handle or own residential or commercial properties.

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Fair Housing Information

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

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because 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, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:

- Refuse to rent or offer housing.

- Refuse to work out for housing.

- Otherwise make housing unavailable.

- Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a dwelling.

- Provide a person different housing services or facilities.

- Falsely reject that housing is offered for examination, sale or rental.

- Make, print or publish any notice, statement or advertisement with regard to the sale or leasing of a house that suggests any preference, constraint or discrimination.

- Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a dwelling.

- Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or treatments, such as income requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.

- Evict a tenant or a tenant's visitor.

- Harass an individual.

- Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repair work.

- Limit advantages, services or facilities of a residence.

- Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.

- Assign a person to a specific building or neighborhood or section of a structure or area.

- For profit, persuade, or try to persuade, house owners to offer their homes by suggesting that people of a specific secured attribute will move into the community (blockbusting).

- Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance coverage because of the race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.

- Deny access to or subscription in any multiple listing service or genuine estate brokers' organization.


In Mortgage Lending:

It is prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary help for a house.

- Refuse to provide information concerning loans.

- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or costs.

- Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.

- Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's response to harassment.

- Refuse to acquire a loan.


Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to bother individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this prohibits sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is illegal discrimination to:

- Threaten, coerce, daunt or interfere with anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.

- Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a reasonable housing problem or helped in a fair housing investigation.


Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a change, exception, or modification to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be needed to afford persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to utilize and enjoy a residence and public and typical usage areas.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing company from declining to permit, at the expenditure of the person with a special needs, affordable modifications of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such individual if such adjustments might be essential to afford such individual complete satisfaction of the properties.

What is Needed for a Complaint

To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements need to be satisfied:

- The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.

- The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, need to have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.