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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act secures individuals from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or participating in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you require to submit a complaint about an offense of your housing rights, submit the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We offer trainings for housing companies, residential or commercial property management and those involved in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Form online or call the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
   Monthly Webinar
   
   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 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 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 unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to lease or offer housing.
   - Refuse to work out for housing.
   - Otherwise make housing not available.
   - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or rental of a dwelling.
   - 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, declaration or ad with respect to the sale or leasing of a home that suggests any preference, limitation or discrimination.
   - Impose various sales costs or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
   - Use different credentials criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
   - Evict a tenant or a renter's visitor.
   - Harass a person.
   - Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
   - Limit advantages, services or centers of a dwelling.
   - Discourage the purchase or rental of a house.
   - Assign a person to a particular building or community or area of a building or area.
   - For earnings, encourage, or try to persuade, house owners to sell their homes by suggesting that individuals of a particular secured attribute are about to move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a residence.
   - Deny access to or membership in any multiple listing service or genuine estate brokers' company.
   In Mortgage Lending:
   
   It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religious beliefs, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary help for a home.
   - Refuse to supply info concerning loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or fees.
   - Discriminate in appraising a home.
   - Condition the availability of a loan on an individual's response to harassment.
   - Refuse to buy a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to bug persons because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin. To name a few things, this prohibits sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is illegal discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, coerce, frighten or disrupt anyone working out a fair housing right or helping others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate versus an individual who has actually submitted a fair housing grievance or helped 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 make affordable lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be needed to afford persons with disabilities an equivalent chance to utilize and delight in a dwelling and public and typical usage areas.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing provider from declining to permit, at the expense of the person with a disability, reasonable adjustments of existing facilities occupied or to be inhabited by such individual if such modifications may be necessary to afford such person full enjoyment of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Problem
   
   To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements must be satisfied:
   
   - The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, most of the times, should have more than 3 residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family dwellings.