covered housing

The Fair Housing Act applies to:

  • single family housing owned by private individuals when a broker is used or discriminatory advertising is used
  • single family housing not owned by private individuals
  • single family housing owned by private individuals who own more than three such dwellings or who, in any two-year period, sell more than one dwelling in which he or she was not the most recent resident
  • multifamily dwellings of five or more units
  • multifamily dwellings of four or fewer units, if the owner does not reside in one of the units

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