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Report Housing Discrimination

If you believe your rights might have been broken, we encourage you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time limitations on when an allegation can be submitted with HUD after an alleged offense, you must report housing discrimination as quickly as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please provide as much information as possible, including:

Your name and address

The name and address of the individual(s) or organization your allegation is versus

The address or other identification of the housing or program involved

A short description of the event(s) that trigger 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 (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

Mail

You can print out this kind (likewise offered in Español, 中文, Tiếng Việt, 한국인, العربية, Русский, ខ ម រ, and Soomaali) and mail it to your local FHEO office at the address on this list.

Assistance for Persons with Disabilities

HUD welcomes and is prepared to get calls from individuals who are deaf or difficult of hearing, in addition to people with speech or communication specials needs. To find out more about how to make an accessible phone conversation, please go to Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.

Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency

You can report housing discrimination in any language. For individuals with restricted English efficiency, HUD offers interpreters. HUD also offers a Spanish language variation of the online report housing discrimination kind. You can find descriptions of your fair housing rights in numerous languages besides English here.

It is prohibited to retaliate versus anybody for making an allegation, affirming, helping, or taking part in any way in a proceeding under HUD's allegation process at any time, even after the examination has been finished. The Fair Housing Act likewise makes it illegal to strike back versus any person because that individual reported a prejudiced practice to a housing company or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act likewise makes it prohibited for a public housing agency, owner, or manager of housing assisted under a VAWA covered housing program to retaliate against someone for seeking or exercising VAWA protections for themself or another. This consists of protection for people who testify, assist, or participate in any VAWA matter on their own, or another's, behalf. If you think you have actually experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.

FHEO investigates claims, which might be one or both of the list below types:

Discrimination in leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or taking part in other housing-related activities

Fair Housing Act (race, color, nationwide origin, religious beliefs, sex, special needs, familial status)

Anyone who has been or will be damaged by a discriminatory housing practice

Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property managers, developers, genuine estate representatives, mortgage lenders, house owners associations, insurance coverage service providers, and others who affect housing chances

Discrimination and other offenses of civil rights in HUD programs (for example, failure to make sure meaningful gain access to by individuals with restricted English proficiency)

Title VI of the Civil Liberty Act of 1964 (race, color, national origin); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (race, color, nationwide origin, faith, sex); Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (disability); Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (disability); Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (impairment); Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age); Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (sex)

Anyone

Any recipient or subrecipient of HUD monetary support, States, city governments, and private entities operating housing and neighborhood advancement and other types of services, programs, or activities

How Your Rights May Have Been Violated

Discrimination in accessing housing or assistance, being forced out from housing, or having your support terminated due to the fact that 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 rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise punished for reporting crimes and emergency situations; or being retaliated versus for seeking or exercising 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 securities use despite being a survivor (right to report criminal activities and emergencies; defenses from retaliation)).

Who May File an Accusation

Anyone who has actually been or will be hurt by a prejudiced housing practice under VAWA.

Who May Have an Allegation Filed Against Them

With respect to the majority of the Violence Against Women Act, any individual or entity under a covered housing program that has duty for the and/or oversight of VAWA protections, consisting of a public housing firm, sponsor, owner, mortgager, supervisor, State and city government or its firm, not-for-profit or for-profit company or entity. Additionally, claims may be submitted versus anybody who breaks the right to report crimes and emergencies.

Privacy Act Statement: The details submitted to HUD might be used to examine and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It might be disclosed for lawful investigatory functions, including to the U.S. Department of Justice for its use in the filing of pattern and practice matches of housing discrimination or the prosecution of the individual(s) who committed the discrimination where violence is involved; the public, where appropriate; and to State or regional reasonable housing agencies that administer substantially equivalent fair housing laws for allegation processing. Though disclosure of the details is voluntary, failure to supply some or all of the inquired might lead to the hold-up or denial of help with your housing discrimination accusation.