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ADDITIONAL ACTS PROHIBITED BY THE FAIR HOUSING LAW The Fair Housing Law provides protection against the following acts, if they are based on race, color, creed, sex or national origin: - Refusing to see or rent to, deal or negotiate with any person (section 804 (2)); - Discrimination in terms or conditions for buying or renting housing (Section 804 (b)); - Discrimination by advertising that housing is available only to persons of a certain race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Section 804 (c); - Denying that housing is available for inspection, sale, or rent when it really is available (Section 804 (d)); - "Blockbusting" for profit, persuading owners to sell or rent housing by telling them that minority groups are moving into the neighborhood (Section 804 (e)); - Denying or making terms or conditions for home loans by commercial lenders such as banks, savings and loan associations and insurance companies (Section 805 ); - Denying to anyone the use of or participation in any real estate services, such as brokers, organizations, multiple listing services or other facilities related to the selling or renting of housing (Section 806). HOUSING ACTS NOT PROHIBITED BY THE FAIR HOUSING LAW The sale or rental of single-family houses owned by a private individual of three (3) or fewer such single-family houses iff - A broker is not used; - Discriminatory advertising is not used; - No more than one (1) house in which the owner was not the most recent resident is sold during any two-year period; - Rentals or rooms or units in owner-occupied multifamily dwellings for two or four families, if discriminatory advertising is not used; - Limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which a religious organization owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, if membership in that religion is not restricted, on account or race, color, or national origin.