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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act protects individuals 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.
   
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   If you need to send a problem about an offense of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We supply trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are offered practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or get in touch with the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
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Fair Housing Information

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

The Fair Housing Act forbids discrimination in housing since 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 since of race, color, religion, 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 various terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a house.
- Provide a person different housing services or centers.
- Falsely reject that housing is available for examination, sale or leasing.
- Make, print or publish any notice, declaration or ad with to the sale or leasing of a dwelling that indicates any choice, restriction or discrimination.
- Impose various sales prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a residence.
- Use various credentials criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
- Evict an occupant or a tenant's guest.
- Harass an individual.
- Fail or hold-up efficiency of upkeep or repairs.
- Limit privileges, services or centers of a dwelling.
- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a house.
- Assign an individual to a specific building or area or section of a building or neighborhood.
- For earnings, convince, or try to persuade, property owners to offer their homes by recommending that individuals of a specific secured quality will move into the community (blockbusting).
- Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance coverage since 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 membership in any several listing service or property brokers' company.
In Mortgage Lending:

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

- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary support for a home.
- Refuse to provide info concerning loans.
- Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or charges.
- Discriminate in evaluating a residence.
- Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
- Refuse to purchase a loan.
Harassment:

The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to pester persons due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this prohibits sexual harassment.

Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

It is illegal discrimination to:

- Threaten, coerce, frighten or interfere with anyone exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
- Retaliate versus a person who has submitted a fair housing complaint or assisted in a fair housing investigation.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to make sensible lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be necessary to pay for individuals with specials needs a level playing field to utilize and take pleasure in a residence and public and common use locations.

In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing company from refusing to permit, at the cost of the person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing properties occupied or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments may be required to pay for such individual full satisfaction of the properties.

What is Needed for a Problem

To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be met:

- The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
- The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, must have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family residences.