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This brochure explains your Fair Housing Act rights related to harassment and retaliation. This brochure is available in English, Spanish, Pashto, Chinese, Mandarin, and Arabic.
This brochure is also available as an audio recording in English. For the audio recording, please click here to visit our YouTube page: https://youtu.be/hgTUhrRka78.
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If you've ever applied for a credit card, a personal loan, or insurance, there's a file about you. This file is known as your credit report. It includes information on where you live, how you pay your bills, whether you've been sued or arrested, or have filed for bankruptcy. Consumer reporting companies sell the information in your report to creditors, insurers, employers, and other businesses with a legitimate need for it. They use the information to evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, or a lease.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – to provide you with a copy of your credit report once every 12 months.
Your credit report contains information about where you live, how you pay your bills, and whether you’ve been sued or arrested, or have filed for bankruptcy. Consumer reporting companies sell the information in your report to creditors, insurers, employers, and other businesses that use it to evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, or renting a home. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) promotes the accuracy and privacy of information in the files of the nation’s consumer reporting companies.
A good credit rating is very important. Businesses inspect your credit history when they evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, and even leases. They can use it when they choose to give or deny you credit or insurance, provided you receive fair and equal treatment. Sometimes, things happen that can cause credit problems: a temporary loss of income, an illness, even a computer error. Solving credit problems may take time and patience, but it doesn’t have to be an ordeal.
HUD sponsors housing counseling agencies throughout the country that can provide advice on buying a home, renting, defaults, foreclosures, and credit issues. This page allows you to select a list of agencies for each state below. You may search more specifically for a reverse mortgage counselor or if you are facing foreclosure, search for a foreclosure avoidance counselor.
In 1977, the Idaho Legislature passed a law which gives tenants a simple and quick method of forcing landlords to return security deposits that are owed to tenants...
The Violence Against Women Act: A Housing Toolkit for Advocates
The Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Acts, prohibits discrimination in housing.
The Fair Housing Act Prohibits Discrimination in the Sale and Rental of Housing Based on a Person’s:
Race
Color
Sex
Religion
National Origin
Disability
Familial Status (presence of children under 18 yrs. old)
Why Fair Housing?
Where you live determines:
Over the last several years, our nation has made enormous progress in expanding access to capital for previously under served borrowers. Despite this progress, however, too many families are suffering today because of a growing incidence of abusive practices in a segment of the mortgage lending market. Predatory mortgage lending practices strip borrowers of home equity and threaten families with foreclosure, destabilizing the very communities that are beginning to enjoy the fruits of our nation’s economic success.
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