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Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing help, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
Complaint Form
If you need to send a problem about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
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We supply trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
Our trainings are offered virtually 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 first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free webinar for those interested in their rights or those that manage 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 because of:
- Race.
- Color.
- National Origin.
- Religion.
- Sex.
- Familial Status.
- Disability.
What Is Prohibited?
In the Sale and Rental of Housing:
It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:
- Refuse to lease or offer housing.
- Refuse to work out for housing.
- Otherwise make housing unavailable.
- Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a dwelling.
- Provide a person various housing services or centers.
- Falsely deny that housing is offered for assessment, sale or leasing.
- Make, print or release any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a home that suggests any preference, limitation or discrimination.
- Impose different prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
- Use different qualification 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 an occupant's visitor.
- Harass a person.
- Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
- Limit benefits, services or facilities of a house.
- Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.
- Assign a person to a specific building or neighborhood or section of a structure or community.
- For revenue, persuade, or try to persuade, property owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a specific secured quality will move into the community (blockbusting).
- Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance since of the race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a home.
- Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or realty brokers' company.
In Mortgage Lending:
It is prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:
- Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary help for a residence.
- Refuse to offer information concerning loans.
various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or costs.
- Discriminate in evaluating a residence.
- Condition the availability of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
- Refuse to acquire a loan.
Harassment:
The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bug persons because of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.
Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
It is unlawful discrimination to:
- Threaten, push, intimidate or hinder anybody exercising a reasonable housing right or helping others who exercise the right.
- Retaliate versus a person who has submitted a fair housing grievance or assisted in a fair housing examination.
Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make reasonable accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be essential to afford persons with impairments a level playing field to utilize and delight in a dwelling and public and common use locations.
In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing supplier from refusing to permit, at the expenditure of the person with a disability, affordable adjustments of existing properties occupied or to be inhabited by such individual if such adjustments may be needed to manage such individual full pleasure of the premises.
What is Needed for a Grievance
To submit a housing discrimination problem these requirements must be fulfilled:
- 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 homes.