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  Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
  
  The Fair Housing Act secures individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, looking for assistance, or participating in other housing-related activities.
  
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  If you need to submit a grievance about an infraction of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
  
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  We provide trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.
  
  Our trainings are offered virtually and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
  
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  Join us on every first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that manage or own residential or commercial properties.
  
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  Fair Housing Information
  
  Find details listed below on who and what is covered under the law.
  
  The Fair Housing Act restricts 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 unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:
  
  - Refuse to lease or offer housing.
  - Refuse to negotiate for housing.
  - Otherwise make housing unavailable.
  - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or rental of a house.
  - Provide an individual different housing services or centers.
  - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for examination, sale or rental.
  - Make, print or release any notification, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a residence that shows any choice, constraint or discrimination.
  - Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
  - Use various certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
  - Evict a renter or a tenant's guest.
  - Harass a person.
  - Fail or hold-up efficiency of upkeep or repairs.
  - Limit benefits, services or facilities of a house.
  - Discourage the purchase or rental of a residence.
  - Assign a person to a specific structure or area or section of a structure or community.
  - For profit, persuade, or try to convince, property owners to offer their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular safeguarded attribute will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
  - Refuse to provide or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage because of the race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.
  - Deny access to or membership in any numerous listing service or property brokers' company.
  In Mortgage Lending:
  
  It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin:
  
  - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other financial support for a dwelling.
  - Refuse to provide info relating to loans.
  - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or charges.
  - Discriminate in assessing a dwelling.
  - Condition the accessibility of a loan on a person's action to harassment.
  - Refuse to acquire a loan.
  Harassment:
  
  The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bother individuals because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits sexual harassment.
  
  Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
  
  It is illegal discrimination to:
  
  - Threaten, persuade, daunt or disrupt anyone exercising a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
  - Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing complaint or helped in a reasonable housing investigation.
  Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
  
  Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible lodging is a change, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to make sensible accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be required to manage persons with impairments a level playing field to utilize and delight in a residence and public and common usage areas.
  
  In addition, the Fair Housing Act forbids a housing service provider from declining to permit, at the cost of the person with a special needs, sensible adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments may be required to afford such person complete enjoyment of the facilities.
  
  What is Needed for a Problem
  
  To send a housing discrimination problem these requirements should be fulfilled:
  
  - The residential or commercial property must 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.