If you or someone you know is in need of assistance, please visit our Help for Texans Page.
The following Toolkits, Sample Forms, and Downloads have been collected by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs ("TDHCA") during the development of this site as a helpful resource; please note that TDHCA is not responsible for the content and does not endorse any of the following materials or sites:
Sample Forms
- Request a Sample Reasonable Accommodations Request Form (www.housing-rights.org)
- Sample Disability Verification Form (PDF)
- HUD Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan (935.2A – Multifamily) (PDF)
- HUD Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan (935.2B – Single Family) (PDF)
Downloads
- Reasonable Modifications: Who Pays (PDF)
- HUD Fair Housing Logo (hud.gov)
- Equal Rights Center Fair Housing Brochures (www.equalrightscenter.org)
- HUD Fair Housing Brochures (PDF available in Arabic | Chinese | English | Farsi | French | Hindi | Hmong | Japanese | Khmer | Korean | Lao | Polish | Russian | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese) (hud.gov)
- Texas Department of Insurance Renter Insurance (www.tdi.texas.gov)
- TAA's Residents, Rental Housing, and the Law Brochure (www.taa.org/renterinfo)
- The HUD Mobile App (hud.gov)
- Disability Rights Texas Brochures (www.disabilityrightstx.org)
- Zoning Laws and Reasonable Accommodations for Citizens with Disabilities Brochure (PDF)(www.abilitycenter.org)
- TDHCA Multifamily Programs Introduction Packet
- Fair Housing: Know Your Rights (PDF available in Spanish)
Toolkits
Consumer Education, Credit, and Banking Basics
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Adult Financial Education (www.consumerfinance.gov)
- FreddieMac Credit Smart (www.freddiemac.com)
- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Building Wealth (www.dallasfed.org)
Building Community Investment in Affordable Housing
- The University of Texas Fair Housing Legal Toolkit for Permanent Supportive Housing Development (PDF) (law.utexas.edu)
- A Public Official's Guide to Fair Housing (Authored by the William Wayne Justice Center at UT) (PDF)
- National Low Income Housing Coalition Congressional District Housing Profiles (nlihc.org/library/CDP)
- Building Support for Transit-Oriented Development: Do Community Engagement Toolkits Work? (PDF) (communityinnovation.berkeley.edu)
- Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing Development: A Fair Housing Toolkit (PDF) (The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania) (www.fhcsp.com)
- Thinking Beyond NIMBY: Building Community Support for Supportive Housing (PDF) (www.csh.org)
- NIMBY Risk Assessment and Decision Tree Tool (OneCPD) (www.onecpd.info)
- California's Housing and Community Development's NIMBY Resources (www.hcd.ca.gov)
- Assessing and Addressing Local Housing Needs (PDF)
- Community Toolbox, University of Kansas, (www.ctb.ku.edu)
Rental and Fair Housing
- HUD Outreach Tools (hud.gov)
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (www.huduser.gov)
- The Texas Attorney General's Tenants Rights Page (www.texasattorneygeneral.gov)
- OneCPD Housing Search Assistance Toolkit, A Toolkit for Housing Advocates (www.onecpd.info)
- Disability Rights Texas (www.disabilityrightstx.org)
- Guide to Disability Rights Law (www.ada.gov/cguide.htm)
- Texas State Law Library's Landlord/Tenant Research Guide and Eviction Resources (guides.sll.texas.gov/landlord-tenant-law)
- Texas A&M's Landlords and Tenants Guide (PDF) (recenter.tamu.edu)
Homebuyers
- TDHCA Homebuyer U (education.myfirsttexashome.com)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (www.consumerfinance.gov)
- TSAHC Texas Financial Toolbox (www.texasfinancialtoolbox.com)
- FHA Home Loan Buying Guides (hud.gov)
- HUD's Buying a Home Page (hud.gov)
- HUD's Fair Lending Guide (hud.gov)