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Report Housing Discrimination
If you believe your rights may have been violated, we encourage you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time limitations on when a claims can be filed with HUD after an alleged infraction, you must report housing discrimination as soon as possible. When reporting housing discrimination, please provide as much information as possible, consisting of:
Your name and address
The name and address of the individual(s) or organization your allegation is against
The address or other identification of the housing or program included
A brief description of the event(s) that trigger you to believe your rights were violated
The date(s) of the supposed violation
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 consumption expert by calling:
1-800-669-9777
or
You can print out this type (likewise readily available 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 receive calls from people who are deaf or hard of hearing, in addition to people with speech or communication disabilities. To discover more about how to make an accessible phone conversation, please visit Telecommunications Relay Service - TRS.
Assistance for Persons with Limited English Proficiency
You can report housing discrimination in any language. For individuals with minimal English proficiency, HUD supplies interpreters. HUD likewise supplies a Spanish language version of the online report housing discrimination type. You can discover descriptions of your fair housing rights in a number of languages aside from English here.
It is prohibited to strike back versus anybody for making an accusation, affirming, assisting, or getting involved in any way in a case under HUD's claims process at any time, even after the investigation has been finished. The Fair Housing Act also makes it prohibited to retaliate against anybody since that person reported an inequitable practice to a housing supplier or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act also makes it prohibited for a public housing agency, owner, or manager of housing assisted under a VAWA covered housing program to strike back versus somebody for seeking or working out VAWA protections for themself or another. This includes protection for people who affirm, help, or take part in any VAWA matter by themselves, or another's, behalf. If you think you have experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.
FHEO examines allegations, which may be one or both of the list below types:
Discrimination in leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing support, or participating in other housing-related activities
Fair Housing Act (race, color, national origin, faith, sex, special needs, familial status)
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by an inequitable housing practice
Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property supervisors, developers, genuine estate representatives, mortgage lending institutions, house owners associations, insurance coverage suppliers, and others who affect housing chances
Discrimination and other offenses of civil liberties in HUD programs (for instance, failure to guarantee meaningful access by individuals with minimal 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, national 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 (special needs); Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (age); Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (sex)
Anyone
Any recipient or subrecipient of HUD monetary help, 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 help, being kicked out from housing, or having your assistance ended since you are a survivor of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual attack, or stalking; failure to receive notice of occupancy rights or accreditation type under VAWA; being rejected housing or housing-related rights or otherwise punished for reporting crimes and emergency situations; or being struck back against 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 attack, stalking; specific VAWA securities use no matter being a survivor (right to report criminal activities and emergencies; protections from retaliation)).
Who May File a Claims
Anyone who has actually been or will be harmed by an inequitable housing practice under VAWA.
Who May Have an Allegation Filed Against Them
With respect to most of the Violence Against Women Act, any private or entity under a covered housing program that has responsibility for the administration and/or oversight of VAWA securities, including a public housing company, sponsor, owner, mortgager, manager, State and city government or its agency, nonprofit or for-profit company or entity. Additionally, accusations may be submitted versus anyone who breaks the right to report criminal activities and emergency situations.
Privacy Act Statement: The information submitted to HUD may be used to investigate and process claims of housing and other types of discrimination. It might be disclosed for legal investigatory purposes, 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 individual(s) who committed the discrimination where violence is involved; the public, where suitable; and to State or local reasonable housing agencies that administer considerably equivalent fair housing laws for claims processing. Though disclosure of the info is voluntary, failure to offer some or all of the asked for details may result in the delay or rejection of assistance with your housing discrimination claims.
