Know Your Housing Rights Archives

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Do you know your housing rights? Below you’ll find resources related to housing rights basics and disaster housing rights.

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Featured Resources

Know Your Fair Housing Rights

The Fair Housing Act protects people with disabilities from housing discrimination and allows you to request reasonable accommodations. Continue reading “Know Your Fair Housing Rights”

Housing Rights of People Who Are Victims of Certain Types of Violence

This Q&A offers information for people experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking who are trying to leave the home where the abuse is happening. Continue reading “Housing Rights of People Who Are Victims of Certain Types of Violence”

Asking Your Landlord for an Accommodation

You can ask your landlord to make reasonable accommodations (changes) if their policies or rules are making the symptoms of your disability worse. Continue reading “Asking Your Landlord for an Accommodation”

Eviction and Reasonable Accommodations

This handout gives a summary of a tenant’s right to ask for a reasonable accommodation in order to avoid an eviction. Continue reading “Eviction and Reasonable Accommodations”

Handouts

Accessibility and Safety During and After a Disaster or Emergency

This handout answers many questions you might have when navigating an emergency or disaster in your community. Continue reading “Accessibility and Safety During and After a Disaster or Emergency”

Housing Rights Information for People with Disabilities Impacted by Natural Disasters

Learn about your rights under the ADA when staying at a hotel or shelter, and also how the Federal Fair Housing Act impacts where you live. Continue reading “Housing Rights Information for People with Disabilities Impacted by Natural Disasters”

Ending Discrimination in Housing: Fair Housing Laws

Learn about the Fair Housing Act, requirements for new and existing housing, how to file a complaint if you think if you’ve been discriminated against, and more. Continue reading “Ending Discrimination in Housing: Fair Housing Laws”

Videos

Be Aware of Predatory Lending in Housing

Learn how to protect yourself from predatory lending, when a lender tricks or takes advantage of a borrower by offering them a home loan with unfair and harmful terms. Watch the video “Be Aware of Predatory Lending in Housing”

Know Your Fair Housing Rights

Learn about how the Fair Housing Act protects people with disabilities from housing discrimination and allows you to request reasonable accommodations. Watch the video “Know Your Fair Housing Rights”

DRTx Legal Tips: Housing Rights

In this video, a Disability Rights Texas attorney explains some of the basic housing rights of veterans and others with disabilities. The video covers what landords can ask tenants, reasonable accommodations, and home modifications. Watch the video “DRTx Legal Tips: Housing Rights”

External Links

Prevent Disability Discrimination and Promote Fair Housing
Learn how real estate professionals can help prospects, clients, and tenants with disabilities receive the same access to fair housing as everyone else.
Protecting the Rights of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
This brochure from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division details how people with HIV or AIDS are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act and how to file a complaint.

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