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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities.
Complaint Form
If you need to submit a grievance about an infraction of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
Fair Housing Training
We supply trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
Our trainings are readily available practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or get in touch with the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
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Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free 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 details below on who and what is covered under the law.
The Fair Housing Act prohibits 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 prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions because of race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:
- Refuse to rent or sell housing.
- Refuse to negotiate for housing.
- Otherwise make housing unavailable.
- Set various terms, conditions or privileges for sale or leasing of a home.
- Provide a person different housing services or centers.
- Falsely reject that housing is readily available for assessment, sale or leasing.
- Make, print or publish any notification, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a home that suggests any preference, limitation or discrimination.
- Impose various prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
- Use various certification requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as income requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
- Evict a tenant or a tenant's visitor.
- Harass a person.
- Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repair work.
- Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a dwelling.
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.
- Assign a person to a particular building or community or area of a building or area.
- For revenue, persuade, or attempt to persuade, to offer their homes by suggesting that people of a particular protected characteristic are about to 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, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a residence.
- Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or realty brokers' organization.
In Mortgage Lending:
It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:
- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other monetary help for a home.
- Refuse to offer info relating to loans.
- Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or costs.
- Discriminate in appraising a house.
- Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
- Refuse to acquire a loan.
Harassment:
The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to harass individuals due to the fact that of race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this prohibits unwanted sexual advances.
Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
It is unlawful discrimination to:
- Threaten, persuade, intimidate or interfere with anyone working out a fair housing right or helping others who work out the right.
- Retaliate against a person who has actually submitted a fair housing complaint or assisted in a fair housing examination.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a modification, exception, or modification to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make sensible lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be essential to afford persons with impairments a level playing field to use and delight in a residence and public and typical usage areas.
In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to allow, at the expense of the individual with a disability, affordable modifications of existing facilities occupied or to be occupied by such person if such adjustments might be required to manage such person full pleasure of the facilities.
What is Needed for a Grievance
To submit a housing discrimination complaint these requirements must be satisfied:
- The residential or commercial property needs to 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 houses.