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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Support
Mission: The organization is a non-profit corporation organized to promote fair housing and non-discrimination in housing across the south texas area. The organization investigates fair housing complaints, conducts fair housing testing surveys, completes educational mailings, and conducts education and outreach events.
Programs: The organizations accomplishments include investigating 341 fair housing complaints, providing assistance in 245 complaints dealing with reasonable accommodations and/or reasonable modifications for people with disabilities, referring 41 administrative housing discrimination complaints to hud, performing 39 site visits/surveys, conducting 20 systemic investigations of housing providers, performing direct educational mailings to 16,400 consumer households, performing in-person education and outreach activities that provided educational information to 306 persons, and posting educational advertisements on social media websites that provided fair housing information to 364,264 persons. In addition, the organizations accomplishments include training 10 rental testers, training 2 real estate testers, training 2 mortgage lending testers, conducting 131 rental test parts, conducting 3 design and construction test parts, conducting 20 real estate test parts, and conducting 10 mortgage lending test parts.