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  Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
  
  The Fair Housing Act safeguards people from discrimination when they are leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or participating in other housing-related activities.
  
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  If you need to submit a problem about an offense of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
  
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  We offer trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with 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 third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free 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 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 sell housing.
  - Refuse to work out for housing.
  - Otherwise make housing unavailable.
  - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or rental of a house.
  - Provide a person different housing services or centers.
  - Falsely deny that housing is offered for examination, sale or leasing.
  - Make, print or release any notification, statement or ad with respect to the sale or leasing of a dwelling that indicates any choice, restriction or discrimination.
  - Impose various prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a house.
  - Use different qualification requirements or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as earnings standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
  - Evict a renter or a tenant's visitor.
  - Harass a person.
  - Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repair work.
  - Limit privileges, services or centers of a dwelling.
  - Discourage the purchase or rental of a home.
  - Assign an individual to a particular structure or neighborhood or section of a structure or neighborhood.
  - For earnings, convince, or try to convince, property owners to sell their homes by recommending that individuals of a particular protected attribute will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
  - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a dwelling.
  - Deny access to or membership in any several listing service or realty 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 supply other financial help for a residence.
  - Refuse to offer info regarding loans.
  - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or costs.
  - Discriminate in evaluating a house.
  - Condition the accessibility of a loan on an individual's response to harassment.
  - Refuse to purchase a loan.
  Harassment:
  
  The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to bug persons 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 prohibited discrimination to:
  
  - Threaten, push, intimidate or interfere with anybody exercising a fair housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
  - Retaliate against an individual who has submitted a fair housing grievance or assisted in a reasonable housing investigation.
  Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
  
  Under the Fair Housing Acts an affordable accommodation is a change, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up lodgings to guidelines, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations might be required to pay for individuals with disabilities an equivalent chance to use and delight in a house and public and typical use locations.
  
  In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from declining to allow, at the expense of the individual with a special needs, reasonable modifications of existing properties inhabited or to be inhabited by such individual if such modifications may be needed to afford such individual full pleasure of the premises.
  
  What is Needed for a Complaint
  
  To submit a housing discrimination complaint these requirements should be fulfilled:
  
  - The residential or commercial property must be within the state of Texas.
  - The residential or commercial property owner, in many cases, should have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.