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  Housing Discrimination - Fair Housing
  
  The Fair Housing Act safeguards individuals from discrimination when they are renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities.
  
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  If you need to send a problem about an offense of your housing rights, fill out the Housing Discrimination Inquiry Form.
  
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  Fair Housing Information
  
  Find details listed below on who and what is covered under the law.
  
  The Fair Housing Act prohibits 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:
  
  It is illegal 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 negotiate for housing.
  - Otherwise make housing unavailable.
  - Set different terms, conditions or opportunities for sale or leasing of a house.
  a person various housing services or facilities.
  - Falsely deny that housing is offered for evaluation, sale or leasing.
  - Make, print or release any notification, declaration or ad with respect to the sale or rental of a house that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination.
  - Impose various list prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a home.
  - Use different certification criteria or applications, or sale or rental requirements or treatments, such as income standards, application requirements, application charges, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements.
  - Evict a tenant or an occupant's guest.
  - Harass a person.
  - Fail or hold-up efficiency of maintenance or repairs.
  - Limit privileges, services or centers of a residence.
  - Discourage the purchase or leasing of a residence.
  - Assign an individual to a particular structure or community or section of a building or area.
  - For earnings, persuade, or attempt to convince, property owners to offer their homes by recommending that people of a specific protected attribute are about to move into the area (blockbusting).
  - Refuse to offer or discriminate in the terms or conditions of property owners insurance due to the fact that of the race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin of the owner and/or residents of a house.
  - Deny access to or membership in any multiple listing service or property brokers' organization.
  In Mortgage Lending:
  
  It is unlawful discrimination to take any of the following actions based on race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or nationwide origin:
  
  - Refuse to make a mortgage loan or supply other monetary assistance for a dwelling.
  - Refuse to supply info relating to loans.
  - Impose various terms or conditions on a loan, such as various rates of interest, points, or charges.
  - Discriminate in appraising a dwelling.
  - Condition the availability of a loan on a person's response to harassment.
  - Refuse to buy a loan.
  Harassment:
  
  The Fair Housing Act makes it prohibited to harass persons because of race, color, religion, sex, special needs, familial status, or national origin. To name a few things, this forbids unwanted sexual advances.
  
  Retaliation and Other Prohibitions:
  
  It is prohibited discrimination to:
  
  - Threaten, persuade, daunt or hinder anyone exercising a fair housing right or helping others who work out the right.
  - Retaliate versus a person who has actually submitted a reasonable housing complaint or assisted in a reasonable housing investigation.
  Reasonable Accommodations and Reasonable Modifications
  
  Under the Fair Housing Acts a reasonable accommodation is a modification, exception, or modification to a guideline, policy, practice, or service. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to refuse to clear up accommodations to rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be essential to manage persons with specials needs an equal chance to use and take pleasure in a residence and public and common use locations.
  
  In addition, the Fair Housing Act restricts a housing provider from refusing to permit, at the cost of the individual with a special needs, affordable adjustments of existing facilities inhabited or to be occupied by such person if such modifications might be needed to pay for such person full enjoyment of the premises.
  
  What is Needed for a Complaint
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  To send a housing discrimination complaint these requirements must be fulfilled:
  
  - The residential or commercial property needs to be within the state of Texas.
  - The residential or commercial property owner, in a lot of cases, must have more than three residential or commercial properties. This does not include multi-family homes.