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Report Housing Discrimination

If you believe your rights may have been violated, we motivate you to report housing discrimination. Because there are time frame on when an allegation can be filed with HUD after a supposed violation, you must report housing discrimination as soon 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 company your allegation protests

The address or other recognition 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 alleged violation

Online

You can Report Housing Discrimination with FHEO online in English (also available 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 expert by calling:

1-800-669-9777

or

Mail

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 workplace at the address on this list.

Assistance for Persons with Disabilities

HUD invites and is prepared to receive calls from individuals who are deaf or tough of hearing, in addition to people with speech or interaction disabilities. To discover more about how to make an accessible phone 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 efficiency, HUD supplies interpreters. HUD also offers a Spanish language version of the online report housing discrimination type. You can discover descriptions of your reasonable housing rights in several languages besides English here.

It is illegal to retaliate versus any individual for making a claims, testifying, assisting, or taking part in any way in a case under HUD's claims procedure at any time, even after the investigation has actually been completed. The Fair Housing Act likewise makes it prohibited to retaliate against anybody since that person reported a discriminatory practice to a housing service provider or other authority. The Violence Against Women Act likewise makes it illegal for a public housing firm, owner, or supervisor of housing helped under a VAWA covered housing program to retaliate against someone for looking for or working out VAWA defenses for themself or another. This includes defense for who testify, help, or take part in any VAWA matter on their own, or another's, behalf. If you think you have experienced retaliation, you can report housing discrimination.

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

Discrimination in leasing or purchasing a home, getting a mortgage, looking for housing help, or participating in other housing-related activities

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

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

Residential or commercial property owners, residential or commercial property supervisors, developers, genuine estate agents, mortgage lending institutions, homeowners associations, insurance coverage companies, and others who impact housing chances

Discrimination and other infractions of civil rights in HUD programs (for example, failure to ensure meaningful gain access to by persons with restricted English proficiency)

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (race, color, nationwide origin)