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The Fair Housing Act is a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their race when they are trying to rent, buy, or finance a home.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse to rent, sell, or provide financing for a home based on someone’s race.

The law also prohibits other discriminatory practices, such as steering people of a certain race to certain neighborhoods or harassing tenants or their guests based on their race.

If you believe that you have been discriminated against, you can file a complaint here.

The Fair Housing Act is a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their color when they are trying to rent, buy, or finance a home.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse to rent, sell, or provide financing for a home based on someone’s skin color.

The law also prohibits other discriminatory practices, such as steering people of a certain skin color to certain neighborhoods or harassing tenants or their guests based on their skin color.

If you believe that you have been discriminated against, you can file a complaint here. file a complaint here.

The Fair Housing Act is a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their national origin when they are trying to rent, buy, or finance a home.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse to rent, sell, or provide financing for a home based on someone’s birthplace, ethnicity, ancestry, culture, or language.

The law also prohibits other discriminatory practices, such as discouraging or recommending certain communities or housing units based on a prospective tenant or buyer’s national origin, refusing housing to prospective tenants or buyers because they do not speak English, or increasing rent or charging a higher security deposit because a tenant was born in a foreign country.

If you believe that you have been discriminated against, you can file a complaint here.

The Fair Housing Act protects people from being discriminated against based on their disability when they are looking for a home.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse or limit housing opportunities for people with disabilities.

They also have to allow people with disabilities to request reasonable accommodations and modifications that are necessary for them to use and enjoy their housing.

Examples of reasonable accommodations and modifications include allowing support animals, providing designated parking, or installing grab bars. If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you can file a complaint here.

The Fair Housing Act is a law that protects people from being discriminated against based on their sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse or limit housing opportunities for people based on their sex, gender, or LGBTQIA+ status.

The law also prohibits other discriminatory practices, such as offering to lower rent in exchange for sexual favors, only showing housing units to prospective tenants of a certain sex, evicting a tenant for being a victim of domestic violence or for calling the police on a domestic abuser, refusing to rent to a same-sex couple, or harassing a tenant who identifies as trans or non-binary.

Domestic violence survivors of domestic and sexual violence often face housing discrimination because of the violence committed against them.

If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you can file a complain here.

The Fair Housing Act protects people from being discriminated against based on their family status when they are looking for a home.

This means that landlords, sellers, and lenders cannot refuse or limit housing opportunities for families with children.

They also cannot designate floors or units of an apartment for families, charge extra rent or a higher security deposit for families with children, or impose occupancy restrictions that limit the number of people who share a room to less than two persons per bedroom plus one.

For example, a 2-bedroom unit may reasonably be occupied by a family of 5. There are exemptions from familial status discrimination for “housing for older persons,” which includes certain senior housing facilities and communities.

If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you can file a complaint here.

The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to be treated unfairly when you look for a home because of your religion.

This includes what you believe, how you dress, and how you worship. This protects both those who practice a religion, and those who do not practice any religion”

For example, you cannot be:

· Shown or not shown homes near or far from a place of worship

· Stopped from putting religious items in your home

· Stopped from using common spaces for religious activities, if others use them for non-religious activities.

If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you can file a complaint here.

There are additional protections throughout Arizona, such as source of income, ancestry, age, marital status, creed, and more. Please contact SWFHC for more information.