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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act secures people from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you require to send a problem about an infraction of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We supply trainings for housing service providers, residential or commercial property management and those associated with housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or contact the training team at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
   Monthly Webinar
   
   Join us on every very first and 3rd Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we go over 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 details below on who and what is covered under the law.
   
   The Fair Housing Act forbids discrimination in housing since of:
   
   - Race.
   - Color.
   - National Origin.
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   - 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 due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to rent or offer housing.
   - Refuse to work out for housing.
   - Otherwise make housing not available.
   - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or rental of a residence.
   - Provide a person various housing services or centers.
   - Falsely reject that housing is readily available for examination, sale or rental.
   - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or advertisement with respect to the sale or leasing of a residence that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination.
   - Impose various prices or rental charges for the sale or leasing of a dwelling.
   - Use various qualification criteria 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 tenant or an occupant's visitor.
   - Harass an individual.
   - Fail or hold-up performance of maintenance or repair work.
   - Limit advantages, services or facilities of a dwelling.
   - Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling.
   - Assign an individual to a specific building or community or area of a structure or neighborhood.
   - For earnings, convince, or try to encourage, homeowners to sell their homes by recommending that people of a particular safeguarded attribute will move into the neighborhood (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance coverage since of the race, color, faith, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin of the owner and/or occupants of a house.
   - Deny access to or subscription in any several listing service or realty brokers' organization.
   In Mortgage Lending:
   
   It is prohibited discrimination to take any of the following actions based upon race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or provide other monetary assistance for a house.
   - Refuse to supply information relating to loans.
   - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or charges.
   - Discriminate in evaluating a dwelling.
   - Condition the schedule of a loan on an individual's action to harassment.
   - Refuse to purchase a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to harass persons since of race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this forbids unwanted sexual advances.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is prohibited discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, push, frighten or disrupt anyone exercising a reasonable housing right or helping others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate versus an individual who has filed a fair housing problem or assisted in a fair housing investigation.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts a sensible lodging is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to make reasonable lodgings to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be required to pay for persons with impairments a level playing field to use and take pleasure in a residence and public and common usage areas.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act prohibits a housing supplier from declining to allow, at the expenditure of the person with a special needs, reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be inhabited by such person if such modifications may be essential to manage such individual full satisfaction of the properties.
   
   What is Needed for a Grievance
   
   To send a housing discrimination grievance these requirements should be fulfilled:
   
   - The residential or commercial property should be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family dwellings.