It is the policy of the city of Dallas, through fair, orderly, and lawful procedures, to promote the opportunity for each person to obtain housing without regard to race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, national origin, or source of income. This policy is grounded upon a recognition of the right of every person to have access to adequate housing of the person’s own choice, and the denial of this right because of race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, national origin, or source of income is detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of the city and constitutes an unjust deprivation of rights, which is within the power and proper responsibility of government to prevent. 

The City of Dallas Fair Housing Ordinance makes it illegal to discriminate in residential housing on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. The City of Fair Housing Ordinance applies to rental transactions, trying to rent an apartment or house, to sales transaction, trying to purchase a home, to financing transactions, trying to obtain a mortgage, to in-surance transactions, trying to obtain homeowners or rental insurance and to advertising transactions, how individuals, companies and newspapers advertise about rental vacancies or homes for sale.

View the complete Fair Housing Ordinance (Volume I, chapter 20A):

Chapter 20A Fair Housing (PDF) 

City Code (American Legal Publishing)