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Report Housing Discrimination
If you believe your rights may have been breached, we motivate you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time limits on when an allegation can be submitted with HUD after an alleged violation, you should report housing discrimination as soon as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please supply as much info as possible, including:
Your name and address
The name and address of the individual(s) or company your claims is versus
The address or other identification of the housing or program included
A short description of the event(s) that cause you to think your rights were violated
The date(s) of the supposed offense
Online
You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (likewise 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 consumption expert by calling:
1-800-669-9777
or
You can print out this form (also offered 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 invites and is prepared to get calls from people who are deaf or difficult of hearing, in addition to people with speech or interaction disabilities. To get more information about how to make an available telephone call, please go to Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.
Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency
You can report housing discrimination in any language. For persons with restricted English proficiency, HUD provides interpreters. HUD likewise offers a Spanish language version of the online report housing discrimination kind. You can discover descriptions of your fair housing rights in a number of languages besides English here.
It is illegal to strike back against any person for making an allegation, testifying, assisting, or taking part in any manner in a proceeding under HUD's claims procedure at any time, even after the examination has been completed. The Fair Housing Act also makes it prohibited to retaliate against anyone because that person reported a discriminatory practice to a housing service provider or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act likewise makes it unlawful for a public housing agency, owner, or supervisor of housing helped under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back against someone for looking for or exercising VAWA protections for themself or another. This includes defense for individuals who testify, assist, or take part in any VAWA matter by themselves, or another's, behalf. If you think you have actually experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.
FHEO examines claims, which might be one or both of the following types:
Discrimination in renting or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing assistance, or taking part in other housing-related activities
Fair Housing Act (race, color, national origin, faith, sex, disability, familial status)
Anyone who has actually been or will be damaged by a prejudiced housing practice
Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property supervisors, developers, realty representatives, mortgage loan providers, house owners associations, insurance suppliers, and others who impact housing opportunities
Discrimination and other violations of civil rights in HUD programs (for instance, failure to ensure significant gain access to by individuals with restricted English efficiency)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, national origin); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (race, color, nationwide origin, religious beliefs, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (impairment); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (special needs); 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 assistance, States, city governments, and personal entities operating housing and community development and other types of services, programs, or activities
How Your Rights May Have Been Violated
Discrimination in accessing housing or help, being evicted from housing, or having your assistance ended due to the fact that you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; failure to get notification of occupancy rights or accreditation type under VAWA; being rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise punished for reporting crimes and emergencies; or being struck back versus for seeking or working out VAWA rights for yourself or another.
Applicable Law and Protected Classes
Violence Against Women Act (survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking; specific VAWA defenses apply regardless of being a survivor (right to report crimes and emergencies; protections from retaliation)).
Who May File an Accusation
Anyone who has been or will be damaged by a prejudiced housing practice under VAWA.
Who May Have an Allegation Filed Against Them
With regard to most of the Violence Against Women Act, any private or entity under a covered housing program that has duty for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA securities, including a public housing agency, sponsor, owner, mortgager, supervisor, State and local federal government or its agency, nonprofit or for-profit company or entity. Additionally, claims might be filed against anyone who breaks the right to report crimes and emergency situations.
Privacy Act Statement: The information sent to HUD might be utilized to examine and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It may be divulged for legal investigatory functions, including 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 dedicated the discrimination where violence is included; the general public, where appropriate; and to State or local reasonable housing firms that administer considerably comparable fair housing laws for accusation processing. Though disclosure of the details is voluntary, failure to supply some or all of the inquired might result in the delay or denial of assistance with your housing discrimination allegation.
