Housing Discrimination - Fair Real Estate
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    Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing

    The Fair Housing Act safeguards people from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities.

    Complaint Form

    If you need to submit a grievance about a violation of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.

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    We provide trainings for housing service 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 call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.

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    Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free 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 info listed below on who and what is covered under the law.

    The Fair Housing Act restricts 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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions since of race, color, religion, 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 benefits for sale or leasing of a home.
    - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
    - Falsely reject that housing is offered for examination, sale or rental.
    - Make, print or publish any notification, statement or ad with regard to the sale or leasing of a residence that suggests any choice, constraint or discrimination.
    - Impose various prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a residence.
    - Use different credentials criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as earnings requirements, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
    - Evict a renter or an occupant's visitor.
    - Harass an individual.
    - Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
    - Limit privileges, services or centers of a residence.
    - Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.
    - Assign an individual to a specific building or community or section of a structure or neighborhood.
    - For revenue, convince, or try to convince, property owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a specific safeguarded characteristic are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
    - Refuse to supply or in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance due to the fact that of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or occupants of a residence.
    - Deny access to or subscription in any several listing service or realty brokers' company.
    In Mortgage Lending:

    It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religion, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:

    - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other monetary assistance for a dwelling.
    - Refuse to supply details concerning loans.
    - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or charges.
    - Discriminate in assessing a house.
    - Condition the schedule of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
    - Refuse to buy a loan.
    Harassment:

    The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bug individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this forbids sexual harassment.

    Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:

    It is prohibited discrimination to:

    - Threaten, persuade, frighten or interfere with anyone working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who exercise the right.
    - Retaliate against a person who has filed a fair housing complaint or assisted in a reasonable housing examination.
    Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications

    Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable lodging is a change, exception, or modification to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to clear up lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be essential to afford individuals with specials needs an equivalent chance to use and delight in a dwelling and public and typical usage locations.

    In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing provider from declining to permit, at the cost of the person with a special needs, reasonable adjustments of existing facilities inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such modifications might be essential to manage such person complete enjoyment of the properties.

    What is Needed for a Grievance
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    To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be fulfilled:

    - The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
    - The residential or commercial property owner, in a lot of cases, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family residences.