Your Housing Rights and Housing Rights Contacts
Your Housing Rights
- To be free from discrimination based on disability.
- To make reasonable modification related to disability at your own expense.
- To see public records about housing funded by the government.
- To receive reasonable accommodation for disability in housing programs and policies.
- To move from institution to the community if your physician agrees.
- To pay mortgage or rent with disability or public assistance money.
- To buy or rent housing without being steered somewhere else.
- To keep an animal who helps you with daily living related to disability.
- To know why your application for government housing was denied.
- To appeal a denial of government housing assistance.
- To receive visitors and caregivers in your home at times you choose.
Housing Rights Contacts
Legal and Civil Rights Groups
Fair Housing Groups
- National Fair Housing Advocate: Telephone 1-800-254-2166; Web site www.fairhousing.com
- Ohio Fair Housing Contact Service: Telephone 330-376-6191
- Akron: Telephone 330-253-2450
- Cincinnati - Housing Opportunities Made Equal: Telephone 513-721-4663; Web site www.cincyfairhousing.com
- Columbus: Telephone 614-224-5409
- Dayton - Miami Valley Fair Housing Center: Telephone 937-223-6035; Web site www.mvfairhousing.com
- Toledo - The Toledo Fair Housing Center: Telephone 419-243-6163; Web site www.toledofhc.org
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The Web site for the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is www.hud.gov. The following are telephone numbers to some of HUD's departments.
- Housing Discrimination Hotline: Telephone 1-800-669-9777
- Office of Fair Housing Enforcement: Telephone 1-800-347-3739
- Multifamily Housing Complaint Line: Telephone 1-800-685-8470
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