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Immigration Resources

These resources provide information, services, and support to help immigrants and their families navigate essential services and understand their rights and responsibilities.

Housing Discrimination

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Housing related transactions are considered, renting, buying, selling, obtaining a mortgage or purchasing homeowner’s insurance. Federal and state laws protect individuals to ensure that everyone has equal rights and equal access to housing.

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Housing Discrimination Offices

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Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia

Employment Discrimination

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Employment Discrimination laws seek to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, and age by employers. Discriminatory practices include bias in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, compensation, retaliation, and various types of harassment.

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Public Accommodation Discrimination

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A public accommodation is a place that offers goods and services to the general public such as a restaurant that is open to the public. Federal and state laws protect designated groups from discrimination in places of public accommodations, based on the premise that everyone is entitled to enjoy the goods and services of the public accommodation on an equal basis.

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