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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or participating in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you need to send a problem about a violation of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We supply trainings for housing providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and . Complete the Request Form online or contact the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
   Monthly Webinar
   
   Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a 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 info 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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since 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 not available.
   - Set different terms, conditions or privileges for sale or leasing of a dwelling.
   - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
   - Falsely deny that housing is offered for examination, sale or leasing.
   - Make, print or release any notification, statement or ad with respect to the sale or leasing of a home that shows any choice, restriction or discrimination.
   - Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
   - Use various certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
   - Evict a tenant or a tenant's visitor.
   - Harass an individual.
   - Fail or delay efficiency of maintenance or repairs.
   - Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a house.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a house.
   - Assign a person to a particular structure or neighborhood or section of a structure or community.
   - For revenue, encourage, or try to convince, house owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a specific protected characteristic will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance since of the race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a dwelling.
   - 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, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other financial assistance for a residence.
   - Refuse to provide details regarding loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rates of interest, points, or charges.
   - Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.
   - Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's reaction to harassment.
   - Refuse to purchase a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to bug persons since 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 prohibited discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, coerce, intimidate or disrupt anyone exercising a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate against an individual who has actually submitted a reasonable housing problem or assisted in a fair housing examination.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to clear up accommodations to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be required to manage individuals with disabilities a level playing field to use and take pleasure in a house and public and typical usage locations.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing provider from refusing to allow, at the expenditure of the person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing facilities inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such modifications may be necessary to manage such person full satisfaction of the properties.
   
   What is Needed for a Grievance
   
   To submit a housing discrimination complaint these requirements must be satisfied:
   
   - The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, must have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.