Fair Housing & Illegal Housing Discrimination
Fair Housing is the name for the federal, state and local civil rights laws that protect all of us from illegal discrimination in housing transactions based on our race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, physical or mental disability, the presence of children under age 18 (familial status), marital status, sexual orientation, domestic violence survivors, legal source of income, or domestic partnership status. Additionally, the City of Sheridan also protects against housing discrimination based on ethnicity and age.
The City of Sheridan strives to assure that persons of a protected class have choice in the location of their housing.
Fair Housing Help
Fair Housing Council of Oregon
Fair Housing Council of Oregon operates a hotline for housing discrimination and maintains a website with fair housing information. Anyone with a fair housing question can contact the hotline.
Fair Housing Council of Oregon - Hotline: 1-800-424-3247, ext. 2.
Messages and online inquiries are accepted and returned promptly, even though the telephone hotline hours are limited to Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 am to 12 pm, noon.
Fair Housing inquiries and complaints may be submitted online, or by sending an email. For more information, please visit the Fair Housing Council of Oregon’s website: Fair Housing Council Of Oregon - Home - Fair Housing Council of Oregon (fhco.org).
Bureau of Labor and Industries
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) protects your civil rights at home. For housing discrimination questions or to file a housing discrimination complaint, email help@boli.state.or.us.
BOLI: 971-673-0761 (staffed Mon-Fri, 8 am - 5pm; messages can be left any time).
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Additionally, HUD may be contacted with discrimination complaints at Report Housing Discrimination | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).