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Fair Housing Poster Rules Under 24 CFR Part 110
What the cited 24 CFR Part 110 provisions say about posting duties, the poster's required size, and the phrase used for a failure to display it.
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What matters now
- Persons covered by Fair Housing Act section 805 must post the poster at every business location involved in covered real estate transactions.
- Persons covered by Fair Housing Act section 806 brokerage-services provisions must post the poster at all of their places of business.
- The fair housing poster must measure 11 inches by 14 inches under 24 CFR 110.25.
- The regulation says a failure to display the poster is 'prima facie evidence of a discriminatory housing practice.'
- None of the three regulation sections discussed here has been amended since 1989.
Under the cited provisions of HUD’s 24 CFR Part 110 regulation, people subject to Fair Housing Act section 805’s residential real-estate-transaction provisions or section 806’s brokerage-services provisions must post and maintain a fair housing poster (24 CFR 110.10). The poster must measure 11 inches by 14 inches (24 CFR 110.25). Section 110.30 says that a required poster’s absence “shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a discriminatory housing practice.”
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Key points
- Persons subject to section 805 of the Fair Housing Act (discrimination in residential real-estate-related transactions) must post a poster at every place of business that participates in the covered activities (24 CFR 110.10).
- Persons subject to section 806 of the Act (discrimination in the provision of brokerage services) must post a poster at all their places of business (24 CFR 110.10).
- The poster must be 11 inches by 14 inches (24 CFR 110.25).
- Failing to display the poster “shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a discriminatory housing practice” (24 CFR 110.30).
- None of the three sections cited here has been amended since 1989 (see Amendment history, below).
Posting duty by section
The posting duty for these covered persons depends on which part of the Fair Housing Act applies to them. For real-estate-related transactions, the text states: “All persons subject to section 805 of the Act, Discrimination In Residential Real Estate-Related Transactions shall post and maintain a fair housing poster at all their places of business which participate in the covered activities” (24 CFR 110.10).
For brokerage services, the duty is broader — every place of business, not only those participating in covered activities: “All persons subject to section 806 of the Act, Discrimination in the Provision of Brokerage Services, shall post and maintain a fair housing poster at all their places of business” (24 CFR 110.10).
Poster size requirement
Part 110 sets a specific physical standard for the poster rather than leaving its format open. The regulation specifies a size of “11 inches by 14 inches” (24 CFR 110.25).
Effect of not posting
Section 110.30 states: “A failure to display the fair housing poster as required by this part shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a discriminatory housing practice” (24 CFR 110.30). This article reports that phrase without interpreting its legal effect in an individual case.
Amendment history
Each of the three sections cited above carries its own amendment history in the Code of Federal Regulations: 24 CFR 110.10 was last amended in 1989 ([37 FR 3429, Feb. 16, 1972, as amended at 54 FR 3311, Jan. 23, 1989]), 24 CFR 110.25 was last amended in 1989 ([37 FR 3429, Feb. 16, 1972, as amended at 40 FR 20079, May 8, 1975; 54 FR 3311, Jan. 23, 1989]), and 24 CFR 110.30 has carried its original 1972 text with no later amendment ([37 FR 3429, Feb. 16, 1972]). None of the three sections has changed since 1989.
What this article doesn’t cover
This article does not determine whether discrimination occurred in any specific situation or interpret the evidentiary effect of section 110.30 for a particular case.
This article also does not cover the separate poster-placement duty that 24 CFR 110.10 sets for people who sell or rent dwellings under Fair Housing Act section 804; it addresses only the section 805 and 806 duties in that same regulation. This article also does not describe HUD’s current complaint-filing procedure: the regulation’s own text points readers to “part 105 of this chapter” for that procedure, and this article does not resolve or confirm the current status of that cross-reference, since doing so was outside the sources verified for this piece. Finally, this article does not address what documentation a housing provider may request, standards for undue burden, or accommodation and assistance-animal questions — those topics are governed by a different regulation, not by 24 CFR Part 110.