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Report Housing Discrimination
If you believe your rights may have been broken, we motivate you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time frame on when a claims can be filed with HUD after a supposed violation, you must report housing discrimination as quickly as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please offer as much info as possible, including:
Your name and address
The name and address of the person(s) or company your accusation protests
The address or other recognition of the housing or program included
A short description of the occasion(s) that cause you to think your rights were breached
The date(s) of the supposed infraction
Online
You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (also offered in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali)
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Phone
We speak your language! Talk with an FHEO intake professional by calling:
1-800-669-9777
or
You can print out this form (likewise readily available in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali) and mail it to your regional FHEO office at the address on this list.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities
HUD welcomes and is prepared to get calls from people who are deaf or difficult of hearing, in addition to individuals with speech or interaction impairments. For more information about how to make an available phone conversation, please check out Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.
Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency
You can report housing discrimination in any language. For persons with restricted English efficiency, HUD provides interpreters. HUD likewise supplies a Spanish language variation of the online report housing discrimination type. You can find descriptions of your fair housing rights in several languages besides English here.
It is illegal to strike back against anyone for making an accusation, testifying, assisting, or taking part in any way in a case under HUD's accusation process at any time, even after the examination has actually been completed. The Fair Housing Act likewise makes it unlawful to retaliate versus anybody since that person reported a prejudiced practice to a housing supplier or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act likewise makes it prohibited for a public housing firm, owner, or manager of housing assisted under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back versus somebody for looking for or working out VAWA defenses for themself or another. This consists of defense for people who testify, help, or participate in any VAWA matter by themselves, or another's, behalf. If you think you have actually experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.
FHEO investigates allegations, which may be one or both of the following types:
Discrimination in leasing or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities
Fair Housing Act (race, color, nationwide origin, religion, sex, impairment, familial status)
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by a discriminatory housing practice
Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property managers, developers, real estate agents, mortgage loan providers, property owners associations, insurance suppliers, and others who impact housing chances
Discrimination and other infractions of civil rights in HUD programs (for example, failure to make sure significant access by individuals with minimal English proficiency)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, nationwide origin); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (race, color, nationwide origin, religion, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (impairment); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (disability); Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (disability); Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age); Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (sex)
Anyone
Any recipient or subrecipient of HUD financial support, States, regional federal governments, and private entities running housing and community development and other kinds of services, programs, or activities
How Your Rights May Have Been Violated
Discrimination in accessing housing or support, being forced out from housing, or having your help ended since you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; failure to receive notification of occupancy rights or certification form under VAWA; being denied housing or housing-related rights or otherwise punished for reporting criminal offenses and emergencies; or being retaliated against for seeking or working out VAWA rights on your own or another.
Applicable Law and Protected Classes
Violence Against Women Act (survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, stalking; particular VAWA defenses apply no matter being a survivor (right to report criminal activities and emergencies; securities from retaliation)).
Who May File an Accusation
Anyone who has been or will be damaged by an inequitable housing practice under VAWA.
Who May Have an Allegation Filed Against Them
With respect to the majority of the Violence Against Women Act, any specific or entity under a covered housing program that has duty for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA defenses, including a public housing agency, sponsor, owner, mortgager, supervisor, State and city government or its firm, nonprofit or for-profit organization or entity. Additionally, accusations might be submitted against anyone who breaches the right to report criminal activities and emergencies.
Privacy Act Statement: The information sent to HUD might be used to examine and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It might be divulged for legal investigatory purposes, consisting of to the U.S. Department of Justice for its usage in the filing of pattern and practice suits of housing discrimination or the prosecution of the person(s) who devoted the discrimination where violence is involved; the public, where appropriate; and to State or regional fair housing companies that administer considerably equivalent fair housing laws for allegation processing. Though disclosure of the details is voluntary, failure to offer some or all of the requested info may result in the delay or denial of help with your housing discrimination claims.
