The Resource Center wants you to know….
The Fair Housing Act was enacted by Congress to prohibit housing discrimination.
• Refusing to show a person housing.
• Refusing to sell, rent or deal with a person.
• Telling a person housing is not available when it is available.
• Advertising housing as being available only to certain people.
• Harassing, coercing, intimidating or interfering with a person’s exercise of his/her fair housing rights.
• Directing people to more “appropriate” neighborhoods.
• Not allowing a service animal for a disabled person.
To prevent this, the Fair Housing Act created a number of protected classes.
The Resource Center at (406) 259-5212.
The City of Billings Fair Housing Referral Hotline at (406) 256-9355.
U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Hotline at 1 (800) 877-7353.