Fair Housing and Disability Laws

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability). Visit HUD’s Fair Housing/Equal Opportunity website at http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp. For information on the Americans with Disabilities Act, visit www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm.