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Report Housing Discrimination
If you think your rights might have been breached, we encourage you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time limits on when a claims can be filed with HUD after a supposed violation, you need to report housing discrimination as quickly as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please provide as much details as possible, including:
Your name and address
The name and address of the person(s) or company your allegation protests
The address or other recognition of the housing or program involved
A brief description of the occasion(s) that cause you to believe your rights were broken
The date(s) of the supposed offense
Online
You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (also available in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali)
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Phone
We speak your language! Talk with an FHEO consumption professional by calling:
1-800-669-9777
or
You can print out this form (also offered in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali) and mail it to your regional FHEO workplace at the address on this list.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities
HUD invites and is prepared to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or tough of hearing, in addition to individuals with speech or interaction disabilities. To discover more about how to make an available phone call, please go to Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.
Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency
You can report housing discrimination in any language. For individuals with restricted English proficiency, HUD provides interpreters. HUD also provides a Spanish language version of the online report housing discrimination form. You can discover descriptions of your reasonable housing rights in several languages other than English here.
It is prohibited to retaliate against any individual for making an accusation, testifying, helping, or taking part in any way in a proceeding under HUD's claims procedure at any time, even after the examination has been completed. The Fair Housing Act likewise makes it prohibited to strike back versus any individual since that person reported an inequitable practice to a housing service provider or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act likewise makes it illegal for a public housing firm, owner, or supervisor of housing helped under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back against someone for seeking or exercising VAWA protections for themself or another. This includes defense for individuals who affirm, help, or get involved in any VAWA matter on their own, or another's, behalf. If you believe you have actually experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.
FHEO investigates accusations, which might be one or both of the list below types:
Discrimination in leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing support, or participating in other housing-related activities
Fair Housing Act (race, color, nationwide origin, faith, sex, special needs, familial status)
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by a prejudiced housing practice
Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property managers, designers, genuine estate agents, mortgage lending institutions, property owners associations, insurance coverage providers, and others who impact housing opportunities
Discrimination and other infractions of civil rights in HUD programs (for example, failure to ensure meaningful gain access to by individuals with minimal English efficiency)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, nationwide origin); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (race, color, national origin, religious beliefs, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (special needs); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (disability); Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (special needs); Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age); Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (sex)
Anyone
Any recipient or subrecipient of HUD financial assistance, States, regional governments, and private entities running housing and community advancement and other kinds of services, programs, or activities
How Your Rights May Have Been Violated
Discrimination in accessing housing or assistance, being forced out from housing, or having your support ended since you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, or stalking; failure to receive notification of occupancy rights or accreditation form under VAWA; being rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise penalized for reporting criminal activities and emergencies; or being retaliated against for seeking or exercising VAWA rights on your own or another.
Applicable Law and Protected Classes
Violence Against Women Act (survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, stalking; certain VAWA protections apply despite being a survivor (right to report criminal offenses and emergencies; securities from retaliation)).
Who May File a Claims
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by a discriminatory housing practice under VAWA.
Who May Have an Accusation Filed Against Them
With respect to most of the Violence Against Women Act, any individual or entity under a covered housing program that has duty for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA securities, including a public housing company, sponsor, owner, mortgager, manager, State and city government or its agency, not-for-profit or for-profit organization or entity. Additionally, claims might be filed against anyone who violates the right to report crimes and emergencies.
Privacy Act Statement: The details sent to HUD may be used to examine and process claims of housing and other kinds of discrimination. It might be revealed for lawful investigatory purposes, consisting of to the U.S. Department of Justice for its usage in the filing of pattern and practice suits of housing discrimination or the prosecution of the person(s) who devoted the discrimination where violence is involved; the public, where suitable; and to State or local fair housing companies that administer significantly equivalent fair housing laws for accusation processing. Though disclosure of the details is voluntary, failure to offer some or all of the requested info might lead to the hold-up or rejection of help with your housing discrimination accusation.
