HUD is the federal floor. It is not your court date.

You still have rights in this unit. A landlord notice is not an eviction. Keep the paper. Photograph every page. If it names a court, a case number, or a date to appear, that is a case — LawHelp.org the same day. A HUD form will not appear for you. You do not have to solve the whole case tonight.

Danger: 911. Mental-health crisis: 988. Domestic violence: 1-800-799-7233. Rent, shelter, food, utilities: 211. Discrimination in housing: HUD or a local fair-housing group. Eviction court: legal aid.

HUD’s overview at hud.gov/helping-americans/fair-housing-act-overview is the primary federal source for the Act. On 8 September 2026 we opened it. The page is an enforcement-policy overview: who is protected, how HUD describes Fair Housing Enforcement, and a “File a Complaint” call to action. It is not a how-to for a landlord notice. It does not map HUD against a local FHIP, a rent board, or a possession docket.

We do not compete with hud.gov for the name of the statute. Government domains should rank for “Fair Housing Act HUD.” This desk is for the query HUD does not write: what a renter with a notice in hand should do with that federal door.

Seven federal protected classes. Housing discrimination is illegal in nearly all housing, HUD says, including private housing. File at HUD’s complaint page. Confirm the current form and deadline there — we will not invent one.

People type “HUD complaint eviction” because they want one filing to freeze the other. That is not how the doors work. An unlawful detainer or FED runs on a state court calendar. A HUD complaint runs on a federal civil-rights calendar. Filing the second does not automatically continue the first.

If both are happening — discrimination and a possession case — you may need both doors the same week. Local fair-housing groups (Housing Rights Center in Los Angeles, Fair Housing Council of Oregon, and other FHIPs) can often dual-file or counsel. They are still not your lawyer on the eviction unless they say so.

HUD is the federal floor. A local fair-housing group is often the faster intake: a hotline, a counselor who knows this city’s landlords, a clinic. Housing Rights Center’s own get-help page — opened 8 September 2026 — lists a weekday hotline and county clinics, and refers eviction notices to Stay Housed LA. That is the map.

Should you call HUD or the local group? If the harm is “they will not rent to me because of who I am,” start with the local group and file with HUD. If you cannot reach anyone local, file with HUD directly. If a court is named, legal aid is still first — fair housing is a parallel track, not a substitute.

HUD ranks because it wrote the Act. That is the correct result for “Fair Housing Act.” Stay Housed, CAT, LAHD, Housing Rights Center, and 211info rank because they are the local doors. NLIHC ranks for a campaign that is not the Act.

This page is original education: the federal floor, the local intake, and the court calendar as three different jobs. Cite HUD. Do not impersonate HUD. Do not treat a campaign PDF as the lease.