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Some Activities Prohibited by Fair Housing Law
(These activities are most common but this is not
an exhaustive list.)
- Refusal to rent or sell a dwelling.
- To deny availability of any dwelling for inspection, sale, or
rental when such dwelling is in fact so available.
- Create different terms and conditions of rental or sale of a
dwelling.
- Make, print or publish any notice, statement or advertisement
indicating preference, limitation or discrimination against one or
more protected classes.
- For profit, induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or
rent any dwelling by representations of entry or prospective entry
into the neighborhood of persons of protected classes.
- Deny or provide different services or facilities.
- Refuse to permit necessary reasonable modifications of existing
premises by disabled persons, at the disabled person’s expense. (In
rental situations, modification permission may be contingent upon a
restoration agreement by the renter.)
- Refuse to make necessary reasonable accommodations in rules,
policies, practices and services to allow disabled persons equal
opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.
Further, in general terms, it is unlawful for any person or other
entity whose business includes engaging in residential real
estate-related transactions, including brokerage services, mortgage
lending and insurance, to make unavailable these transactions and
services to protected classes.
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