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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act safeguards individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing help, or taking part in other housing-related activities.
   
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   If you need to send a complaint about an infraction of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We provide trainings for housing providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available virtually 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 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary 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 information 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 since of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to rent or offer housing.
   - Refuse to work out for housing.
   - Otherwise make housing not available.
   - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a residence.
   - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
   - Falsely deny that housing is available for assessment, sale or leasing.
   - Make, print or publish any notification, declaration or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a residence that shows any preference, limitation or discrimination.
   - Impose different list prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a home.
   - Use various qualification requirements or applications, or sale or rental standards or treatments, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
   - Evict a renter or a renter's visitor.
   - Harass an individual.
   - Fail or delay efficiency of upkeep or repair work.
   - Limit privileges, services or centers of a house.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a home.
   - Assign a person to a specific structure or neighborhood or area of a structure or community.
   - For profit, encourage, or try to convince, house owners to sell their homes by suggesting that individuals of a particular secured quality are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage because of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a home.
   - Deny access to or subscription in any several listing service or genuine estate brokers' company.
   In Mortgage Lending:
   
   It is prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary assistance for a home.
   - Refuse to offer details relating to loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various interest rates, points, or charges.
   - Discriminate in appraising a house.
   - Condition the schedule of a loan on an individual's response to harassment.
   - Refuse to acquire a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to pester individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is prohibited discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, push, intimidate or disrupt anybody exercising a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
   - Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing problem or assisted in a fair housing examination.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible accommodation is a modification, exception, or change to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to decline to clear up accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings may be necessary to pay for persons with disabilities an equal chance to utilize and enjoy a house and public and common usage locations.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing service provider from refusing to permit, at the cost of the person with an impairment, affordable modifications of existing premises inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such adjustments might be needed to manage such individual full pleasure of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Complaint
   
   To submit a housing discrimination complaint these should be met:
   
   - The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, most of the times, need to have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family houses.