The Idaho Fair Housing Poster informs patrons that Idaho law prohibits discrimination in housing based on the protected categories of religion, race, color, sex, age, disability, or national origin. It also provides contact information for the Idaho Human Rights Commission, which enforces Idaho’s anti-discrimination statutes and provides technical assistance and educational programs to businesses.
Under Idaho law, real estate brokers, sales people, and any other person engaged in a real estate transaction are prohibited from the following actions based on a person’s protected characteristic:
- Refusing to engage in a real estate transaction with a person;
- Discriminating against a person in the terms, conditions, or privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of connected facilities or services;
- Refusing to receive or failing to transmit a person’s bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction;
- Refusing to negotiate a real estate transaction with a person;
- Representing to a person that real property is not available for inspection, sale, rental, or lease when in fact it is so available;
- Failing to bring a property listing to a person’s attention;
- Using, publishing, or maintaining written materials (such as advertising, applications, or documentation) for a prospective real estate transaction which indicates directly or indirectly an intent to make a limitation, specification, or discrimination;
- Offering, soliciting, accepting, using, or retaining a list of real property with the understanding that a person may be discriminated against in a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of connection facilities or services; or
- Refusing to permit, at the expense of a person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by such person, if the modifications may be necessary to afford such person full enjoyment of the premises.
It is also unlawful for any person or business entity regulated by this law to discriminate against any individual because he or she has opposed any of the above prohibited practices or participated in a related investigation, proceeding, or litigation.
Posting Requirements
The Idaho Fair Housing Poster is not a mandatory posting. The Idaho Human Rights Commission provides this non-required posting so that those subject to the law can be sure all those seeking housing accommodations know their rights.
Post the Idaho Fair Housing Poster to inform both employees and clients that your business does not tolerate discrimination. Protect your company from possible discrimination complaints or lawsuits.