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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act protects individuals from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you need to send a complaint about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We provide trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
   Monthly Webinar
   
   Join us on every first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a free webinar for those thinking about 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 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 due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to rent or sell housing.
   - Refuse to work out for housing.
   - Otherwise make housing not available.
   - Set various terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a house.
   - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
   - Falsely reject that housing is offered for assessment, sale or leasing.
   - Make, print or publish any notification, statement or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a dwelling that suggests any preference, constraint or discrimination.
   - Impose different sales costs or rental charges for the sale or rental of a home.
   - Use different credentials criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or treatments, such as income requirements, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
   - Evict a tenant or a renter's visitor.
   - Harass an individual.
   - Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repair work.
   - Limit benefits, services or centers of a dwelling.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a dwelling.
   - Assign a person to a specific building or neighborhood or area of a building or community.
   - For earnings, convince, or attempt to persuade, homeowners to sell their homes by suggesting that individuals of a specific safeguarded characteristic are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage because of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.
   - Deny access to or membership in any numerous listing service or real estate brokers' company.
   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 supply other financial assistance for a dwelling.
   - Refuse to supply info regarding loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or costs.
   - Discriminate in evaluating a residence.
   - Condition the availability of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
   - Refuse to purchase a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bother individuals since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is unlawful discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, coerce, daunt or disrupt anyone working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate versus an individual who has submitted a reasonable housing grievance or helped in a reasonable housing examination.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible lodging is a modification, exception, or modification to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to clear up accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be necessary to pay for individuals with specials needs a level playing field to use and enjoy a dwelling and public and common usage locations.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from declining to allow, at the expense of the individual with a disability, sensible modifications of existing properties inhabited or to be occupied by such person if such adjustments might be essential to afford such person full pleasure of the premises.
   
   What is Needed for a Complaint
   
   To send a housing discrimination grievance these requirements should be fulfilled:
   
   - The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, in the majority of cases, need to have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family dwellings.