When you call Project Sentinel, a staff member will discuss your housing problem with you and counsel you on your rights under the Fair housing laws. We may be able to:
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Investigate your complaint
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Educate the owner or manager about their legal obligations
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negotiate with the property owner or manager on your behalf
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Help you file a complaint with a state or federal enforcement agency
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advocate for you during the complaint process
Project Sentinel's Fair Housing Center offers services for tenants/homeseekers who are experiencing housing discrimination
(888) 324-7468
TTY: 7-1-1
Resources for Tenants/Homeseekers
Housing Discrimination: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
Learn about your tenant’s rights and the signs of discrimination that you should look out for. This brochure also provides information on what to do to protect yourself in the case of housing discrimination. Click on the PDF icon to download.
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Learn about disability discrimination and your right to request a reasonable accommodation/modification.
Housing Discrimination: Against Persons with Disabilities
Housing Discrimination: Against Persons with Disabilities
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Housing Discrimination: Against Licensed Daycare Providers
Are you operating a licensed day care or have a tenant who is operating one? Learn what can be counted as discrimination and what rights licensed daycare providers have.
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Housing Discrimination: Against Families with Children
Do you have children? Learn more about your children’s rights to play outside and your renter’s rights as a family.
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Fair Housing Rights & Responsibilities: Service and Support Animals
Do you want to learn more about service or support animals? This booklet gives a guideline of how to request an accommodation and the guidelines that must be followed in regards to service or support animals. Includes a sample doctor’s note and request for a reasonable accommodation.
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Fair Housing Toolkit for People with Criminal Records and Their Advocates
This toolkit is for members of the re-entry community and their advocates. It covers topics such as how to determine whether a criminal records policy violates fair housing law, understanding and correcting your criminal record, and what to do if you are denied housing or your fair housing rights are violated. Includes sample applicant and reference letters.
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Fair Housing Reasonable Accommodations Toolkit for people
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Reasonable accommodation requests are powerful tools that allow tenants with disabilities to request changes in their lease or an additional service. These include, but are not limited to, requests allowing a disabled tenant to keep an emotional support animal despite a no pets policy, having an assigned parking space closer to a mobility-impaired tenant’s unit, and giving a second chance for tenants with mental-disability related hoarding issues. However, these requests are not automatic. This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for both disabled tenants and their advocates showing how to request a disability-related reasonable accommodation.
Schedule a tenants rights presentation
Do you know your tenants’ rights? Project Sentinel’s presentations are tailored to educate tenants on their fair housing rights and what to do if these rights are violated. We will provide examples of discriminatory actions and statements to look out for and answer any questions you may have. If you would like to be informed of your tenants’ rights, click here and schedule a free presentation for your community.
How can you help?
If you would like to promote fair housing in your community, there are ways to get involved! Project Sentinel is recruiting volunteers to serve as fair housing testers and surveyors.
Fair housing testers help expose discrimination in the housing market by posing as homeseekers.
Fair housing surveyors gather evidence of illegal housing practices by interviewing residents about their housing experience.
To participate, you must be 18 or older, attend an in-person training session, complete a practice test, and pass a criminal background check. Testers and surveyors receive a stipend for each completed assignment. To register for training or for more information, click here or (408) 749-1856.