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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act secures 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.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you require to submit a problem about a violation of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We supply trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available practically and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
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   Fair Housing Information
   
   Find information 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, 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 unavailable.
   - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or rental of a house.
   - Provide a person various housing services or facilities.
   - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for assessment, sale or rental.
   - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, constraint or discrimination.
   - Impose different list prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a home.
   - Use different qualification requirements 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 renter or an occupant's visitor.
   - Harass a person.
   - Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
   - Limit benefits, services or centers of a residence.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a house.
   - Assign a person to a particular building or community or section of a building or neighborhood.
   - For profit, encourage, or try to persuade, property owners to offer their homes by suggesting that individuals of a particular safeguarded characteristic will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance since of the race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a residence.
   - Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or genuine estate brokers' organization.
   In Mortgage Lending:
   
   It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or offer other monetary help for a dwelling.
   - Refuse to supply information relating to loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as different rate of interest, points, or fees.
   - Discriminate in assessing a residence.
   - Condition the availability of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
   - Refuse to acquire a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bug persons 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 prohibited discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, persuade, frighten or hinder anyone exercising a fair housing right or helping others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate against an individual who has submitted a fair housing complaint or helped in a reasonable housing investigation.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a modification, exception, or modification to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to decline to make reasonable lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be required to afford individuals with impairments a level playing field to use and take pleasure in a house and public and common use areas.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to permit, at the expenditure of the individual with a disability, affordable modifications of existing facilities inhabited or to be inhabited by such person if such modifications might be needed to afford such person full pleasure of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Complaint
   
   To send a housing discrimination problem these requirements must be met:
   
   - The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, in most cases, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.