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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 purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you need to send a grievance about an offense of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We offer trainings for housing suppliers, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact 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 talk about 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 info 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 because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to rent or sell housing.
   - Refuse to work out for housing.
   - Otherwise make housing not available.
   - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or rental of a home.
   - Provide a person different housing services or centers.
   - Falsely reject that is readily available for assessment, sale or leasing.
   - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a residence that suggests any preference, limitation or discrimination.
   - Impose different list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
   - Use various qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
   - Evict a renter or a renter's guest.
   - Harass a person.
   - Fail or hold-up performance of maintenance or repair work.
   - Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a house.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.
   - Assign a person to a specific structure or area or area of a structure or neighborhood.
   - For earnings, encourage, or attempt to persuade, house owners to offer their homes by recommending that people of a particular safeguarded quality are about to move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage because of the race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.
   - Deny access to or subscription in any multiple 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, disability, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary assistance for a dwelling.
   - Refuse to offer info relating to loans.
   - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as various interest rates, points, or costs.
   - Discriminate in evaluating a house.
   - Condition the schedule of a loan on a person's response to harassment.
   - Refuse to buy a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bug persons because of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is prohibited discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, coerce, frighten or disrupt anybody working out a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate versus a person who has actually submitted a fair housing complaint or assisted in a reasonable housing investigation.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable lodging is a modification, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to make affordable lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be essential to manage individuals with impairments an equal chance to use and take pleasure in a house and public and typical usage locations.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing company from refusing to allow, at the cost of the individual with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be inhabited by such individual if such adjustments might be necessary to manage such person complete enjoyment of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Problem
   
   To submit a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be satisfied:
   
   - The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, most of the times, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.
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