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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act secures 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 require to submit a grievance about an offense of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
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   We provide trainings for housing companies, 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 get in touch with 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 discuss Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a totally free webinar for those interested in their rights or those that manage 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 restricts discrimination in housing due to the fact that of:
   
   - Race.
   - Color.
   - National Origin.
   - Religion.
   - Sex.
   - Familial Status.
   - Disability.
   What Is Prohibited?
   
   In the Sale and Rental of Housing:
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   It is illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions due to the fact that of race, color, faith, sex, disability, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to lease or offer 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 various housing services or facilities.
   - Falsely deny that housing is readily available for inspection, sale or rental.
   - Make, print or publish any notification, statement or ad with regard to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any choice, constraint or discrimination.
   - Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a residence.
   - Use various certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
   - Evict a tenant or a renter's guest.
   - Harass a person.
   - Fail or hold-up performance of or repairs.
   - Limit advantages, services or facilities of a dwelling.
   - Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling.
   - Assign a person to a particular building or community or section of a building or community.
   - For profit, encourage, or attempt to convince, house owners to sell their homes by recommending that people of a specific safeguarded characteristic will move into the community (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to supply or discriminate in the terms or conditions of homeowners insurance because 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 subscription 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 on race, color, faith, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other financial assistance for a residence.
   - Refuse to provide information concerning loans.
   - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various interest rates, points, or costs.
   - Discriminate in evaluating a home.
   - Condition the schedule of a loan on a person's action to harassment.
   - Refuse to acquire a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to bug individuals due to the fact that of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, impairment, familial status, or nationwide origin. Among other things, this prohibits sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is unlawful discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, persuade, frighten or hinder anyone working out a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate against an individual who has actually filed a fair housing problem or assisted in a fair housing examination.
   Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
   
   Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a modification, exception, or change to a rule, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to refuse to make sensible accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be essential to pay for individuals with impairments an equivalent chance to use and take pleasure in a residence and public and typical usage areas.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing company from refusing to permit, at the cost of the person with a special needs, affordable modifications of existing facilities occupied or to be occupied by such person if such modifications might be essential to pay for such person full pleasure of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Problem
   
   To send a housing discrimination problem these requirements need to be satisfied:
   
   - The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.
   - The residential or commercial property owner, for the most part, should have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not consist of multi-family houses.