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4. Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
   
   The Fair Housing Act protects individuals from discrimination when they are leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or participating in other housing-related activities.
   
   Complaint Form
   
   If you require to send a grievance about a violation of your housing rights, complete the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
   
   Fair Housing Training
   
   We offer trainings for housing providers, residential or commercial property management and those included in housing services.
   
   Our trainings are readily available essentially and in-person. Complete the Request Form online or call the training group at CRDTraining@twc.texas.gov.
   
   Monthly Webinar
   
   Join us on every first and third Tuesday from 10:00 - 11:00 (CST) where we talk about Fair Housing and Housing Accommodations. This is a complimentary webinar for those thinking about their rights or those that manage or own residential or commercial properties.
   
   Register Online.
   Fair Housing Information
   
   Find details below on who and what is covered under the law.
   
   The Fair Housing Act prohibits 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 illegal discrimination to take any of the following actions because 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 not available.
   - Set various terms, conditions or advantages for sale or leasing of a house.
   - Provide an individual different housing services or centers.
   - Falsely reject that housing is offered for examination, sale or leasing.
   - Make, print or publish any notice, declaration or ad with regard to the sale or leasing of a house that shows any choice, constraint or discrimination.
   - Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a dwelling.
   - Use different certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application costs, credit analyses, sale or rental approval treatments or other requirements.
   - Evict a renter or an occupant's visitor.
   - Harass an individual.
   - Fail or delay performance of upkeep or repairs.
   - Limit opportunities, services or facilities of a house.
   - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a house.
   - Assign a person to a specific building or community or section of a structure or area.
   - For profit, convince, or attempt to convince, property owners to sell their homes by recommending that people of a specific protected quality are about to move into the community (blockbusting).
   - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of house owners insurance coverage because 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 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, disability, familial status, or national origin:
   
   - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary help for a house.
   - Refuse to provide info relating to loans.
   - Impose different terms or conditions on a loan, such as different interest rates, points, or fees.
   - Discriminate in appraising a house.
   - Condition the availability of a loan on a person's reaction to harassment.
   - Refuse to purchase a loan.
   Harassment:
   
   The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to harass persons due to the fact that of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this prohibits sexual harassment.
   
   Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
   
   It is unlawful discrimination to:
   
   - Threaten, push, frighten or hinder anybody exercising a reasonable housing right or assisting others who work out the right.
   - Retaliate against an individual who has actually submitted a reasonable housing complaint or helped in a reasonable housing examination.
   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 unlawful to decline to clear up accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such lodgings might be needed to manage persons with disabilities a level playing field to utilize and delight in a dwelling and public and typical usage areas.
   
   In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing service provider from declining to allow, at the cost of the individual with a special needs, reasonable adjustments of existing properties inhabited or to be occupied by such individual if such adjustments may be needed to pay for such person complete satisfaction of the facilities.
   
   What is Needed for a Grievance
   
   To submit a housing discrimination grievance these requirements need to be satisfied:
   
   - The residential or commercial property must 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 include multi-family dwellings.