About Fair Housing

If you, as an individual or family, are seeking housing, the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination because of:

• race
• color
• national origin
• religion
• sex
• familial status: Children under 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, or people trying to get custody of someone under the age of 18.
• disability: mental and/or physical.

The term "housing" includes the following:

• apartments
• condominiums
• duplexes
• multi-unit dwellings:  rental units of 4 units or more
• mobile homes/trailer courts
• private homes and housing for sale
• vacant land
• homeless shelters (although not a place of permanent residence)
• shelters for battered women and their families
• group homes for recovery of drug addicts and alcoholics
• seasonal bungalows
• hospices
• senior/nursing homes