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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
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 assistance, or taking part in other housing-related activities.
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If you require to send a grievance about an infraction 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 involved in housing services.
Our trainings are available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
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Join us on every first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a free webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that handle or own residential or commercial properties.
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Fair Housing Information
Find information below on who and what is covered under the law.
The Fair Housing Act restricts discrimination in housing due to the fact that of:
- Race.
- Color.
- National Origin.
- Religion.
- Sex.
- Familial Status.
- Disability.
What Is Prohibited?
In the Sale and Rental of Housing:
It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:
- Refuse to rent or offer housing.
- Refuse to work out for housing.
- Otherwise make housing not available.
- Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or rental of a residence.
- Provide an individual various housing services or centers.
- Falsely deny that housing is offered for inspection, sale or rental.
- Make, print or publish any notice, statement or ad with regard to the sale or leasing of a dwelling that shows any choice, limitation or discrimination.
- Impose various sales rates or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
- Use different qualification requirements or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
- Evict a renter or a tenant's visitor.
- Harass an individual.
- Fail or hold-up performance of maintenance or repair work.
- Limit opportunities, services or centers of a residence.
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling.
- Assign a person to a specific structure or neighborhood or area of a building or area.
- For revenue, convince, or attempt to convince, property owners to sell their homes by suggesting that people of a specific secured characteristic are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
- Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a house.
- Deny access to or membership in any numerous listing service or property brokers' organization.
In Mortgage Lending:
It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:
- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary assistance for a house.
- Refuse to offer details regarding loans.
- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rates of interest, points, or fees.
- Discriminate in evaluating a house.
- Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
- Refuse to buy a loan.
Harassment:
The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to pester individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.
Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
It is illegal discrimination to:
- Threaten, push, daunt or hinder anybody exercising a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
- Retaliate against an individual who has actually submitted a reasonable housing complaint or helped in a fair housing investigation.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable lodging is a change, exception, or adjustment to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to clear up lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be essential to manage persons with impairments an equivalent chance to use and delight in a house and public and common usage areas.
In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to permit, at the expenditure of the individual with a disability, sensible adjustments of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments might be needed to manage such individual full pleasure of the properties.
What is Needed for a Grievance
To submit a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be satisfied:
- The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
- The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, should have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family residences.
