Fair Housing
Title VI/Section 109 of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, as amended states that “No person in the United States shall
on the grounds of race, color or national origin, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to
discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal
financial assistance.” The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 states that
“No person in the United States shall on the ground of race,
color, national origin, religion, or sex be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefit of or be subjected to
discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in
part with Housing and Community Development funds.”
Federal Fair Housing Law prohibits certain
types of behavior and practices related to attempting to rent an
apartment, buy a house, obtain a mortgage or homeowner’s
insurance. Some of
these practices include:
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Refusing
to negotiate with someone in a rental sales or financing
transaction because of their race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, elderliness, familial status or disability.
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Applying
one set of rental, sales or financing terms to one group of
people and a different set to another group of people.
For example: having one set of rental criteria for blacks
and another set for whites.
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Telling
a prospective renter or buyer that a dwelling has been rented or
sold when, in fact, it’s still available.
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Steering
renters to a specific location within a complex or steering
homebuyers to a specific location within a community.
For example: telling a family with children that they can
only live on the first floor.
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Refusing
to rent to someone because they have children (unless the
complex has been certified as housing for older persons
facility).
For more information contact:
Division of Grants
Management
City Hall Building
810 Union Street, 5th Floor
Norfolk, VA 23510
Tel : (757) 664-4080
Fax : (757) 664-4238
Email :
kathleen.broughton@norfolk.gov
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