submission

16:55 May 17, 2021 

perhaps is more direct the way you stated it, what source says:
faz da submissão=
turns submission=
converte a submissão=
submission becomes a condition,
in other words
ele obriga ela a aceitar favores sexuais em troca de moradia

seeing the pdf is a clear thing

16:47 May 17, 2021 

So let me get this straight....
The "correct" English should be...
A PHA employee or agent makes (submission to - leave it out) unwelcome demands for sex, sexual favors, or any other type of sexual conduct a condition of obtaining, maintaining, using or enjoying housing (or housing related services).

15:05 May 17, 2021 

You got the correct idea after all, if it had not been for the ''submission'' word to mix everything up...

14:58 May 17, 2021 

If this sentence:
A PHA employee or agent SUBJECTS A RESIDENT OR APPLICANT TO UNWELCOME SEXUAL CONDUCT that is sufficiently severe or pervasive that it interferes with that person’s right to obtain, maintain, use, or enjoy housing (or housing-related services)
is not clarifying closed minds, I can only pray to the Holy Virgin, to the Goddess of truth (I am sure it does exist, and she is a feminine and feminist spirit) to illuminate us/them.

Or directly ask the client, that confirmed this sense and Lilian, happily, translated the message in an accurate way.

14:57 May 17, 2021 

Examples:
• DEMANDING nude photos in return for approving a rental application.
• REQUESTING sexual favors in return for making needed repairs.
• EVICTING a person because that person refuses to have sex.
AND/OR
A PHA employee or agent subjects a resident or applicant to U N W E L C O M E S E X U A L C O N D U C T that is sufficiently S E V E R E O R P E R V A S I V E that it interferes with that person’s right to obtain, maintain, use, or enjoy housing (or housing-related services).
Examples:
• PERSISTENTLY making unwelcome and lewd comments about a resident’s body.
• TOUCHING an applicant’s intimate body parts without his or her consent.
• REPEATEDLY sending unwelcome sexually explicit text messages and photos to a tenant.
OTHER TYPES OF ILLEGAL HARASSMENT INCLUDE:
Severe or pervasive offensive remarks or hostile behavior because of a person’s race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin.
Photos are clear, showing women in reflecting and serious/grave attitude.

14:56 May 17, 2021 

While I was writing this note, Lilian closed the kudoZ with a fair choice, hopefully.
Is this one:
Is a very dedicated theme
I insist on asking the client, because whatever is our interpretation and even accepting that “makes submission” means to report or “fica obrigado”, the PDF design and layout makes me be 100% sure or more that they are describing a power abuse. The fact of an expression have a clear meaning doesn't avoid to understand it differently: “converte a submissão”.
Does anyone read paying attention to different types of letter (normal, bold, italic)?
Does anyone read next paragraph besides the translator?
I did several times. Let me paste here reproducing bold capitalizing the letters and italic separating the letters with one space. I suggest to ProZ to open the possibility of adding images for this kind of situations. But the PDF is there.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS ILLEGAL WHEN:
A PHA EMPLOYEE OR AGENT makes S U B M I S S I O N T O U N W E L C O M E D E M A N D S for sex, sexual favors, or any other type of sexual conduct A C O N D I T I O N of obtaining, maintaining, using or enjoying housing (or housing related services).

14:13 May 17, 2021 

You're absolutely correct. I opened the link now to check, and "unwelcome" is indeed an adjective in the context. However "submissão" is still not feasible. I'll erase my suggestion and make a new one.
Sorry about that.

14:04 May 17, 2021 

Ah, acho que o tostão caiu... você tomou o ''unwelcome'' como VERBO e não como adjetivo... assim ja faz sentido!!! Todos tinhamos essa idéia de ''unwelcome demands'' na cabeça... em vez de ''repudiar as demandas'' que foram impostas como condição...'' ai que estava o conundrum!!! Será???

13:27 May 17, 2021 

And let me insist on this: if the word "submissão" is used in the translation, it will be incorrect, no matter what the rest of the phrase is.

13:26 May 17, 2021 

The original text clearly stated "unwelcome", i.e., not to accept, to report, to blow the whistle. It would be illegal if the term was "to welcome", wouldn't it?
The translation here is "o funcionário ou agente se compromete a repudiar/denunciar qualquer tipo de assédio sexual...".
I don't see what is so confusing about this, except the undue language the person used in English. But it's understandable, and we can fix it in the transaltion.

13:10 May 17, 2021 

But Mario, with all due respect, why would the agent "comply with'' something that is illegal??? Comprometer-se a fazer o que??? I cannot see the sense of this translation, other than to submit a report relating the illegal practices... (as per my second answer)

12:59 May 17, 2021 

However, to begin with, we do not use the word "submissão" in Portuguese, even if the meaning is to report to one's supervisor, which is ceratinly not the case here. The word has a pejorative sense in Portuguese, and it's simply not used.
And, as well noted by Nick below, the intent was to ornament the legalese, and this was done in a very undue manner.
Believe me, the meaning here is "the employee undertakes to comply with...", so the translation is "se compromete a..."
I can see people are having a hard time interpreting this, but any translation with "sumissão" or similar terms, implying one's submission to the rules or to a supervisor, will be incorrect.

12:42 May 17, 2021 

IMO, the author of the source text has made a half-arsed attempt at legalese and totally confused the issue - hence the plethora of suggestions.
Ho hum...what a conumdrum :-)

12:24 May 17, 2021 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/submiss...
So the agent is making submission to, i.e., reporting a fact... so I owe an apology to Mario and I will enter my second answer...

11:56 May 17, 2021 

if this is a court submission in a legal context, then yes, it is the PHA agent who is denouncing what is going on illegally in that specific housing complex. The word submission here is misleading, so let's wait for the client's final word.

11:36 May 17, 2021 

a meu ver, é o funcionario/agente do PHA que está agindo ilegalmente, impondo como condição a submissão a demandas indesejáveis de sexo.

11:34 May 17, 2021 

https://www.google.com/search?q="makes submission to"&source...

And hardly a whisper of assedio sexual!

09:30 May 17, 2021 

Or maybe ...
A PHA employee or agent SUBMITS TO (i.e. ACCEPTS) unwelcome demands for sex, sexual favors etc.????

09:21 May 17, 2021 

Does this mean that the agent/employee is complicit? To UNWELCOME sexual demands? I am TOTALLY confused! Or does it mean that the agent/employee is SUBMITTED to sexual demands? (is approached by the OFFER of sex?) Honestly I cannot make any sense of it! it is writtten in a really weird way!

03:33 May 17, 2021 

mas
sendo uma questão tao delicada lhe aconselho conferir com o cliente o sentido da frase, peça para descrever em outras palavras
e fechar o kudoz con claridade e sem polémica

03:30 May 17, 2021 

linguagem jurídica costuma ser assim, pouco clara, recarregada:

o funcionario obriga a submeter-se a demandas indesejadas de sexo como condiçao para obter morada
essa seria a interpretaçao que sugere o texto para a maioria dos que responderam
a outra interpretaçao, totalmente oposta,
e que o agente fica obrigado (submetido) à respeitar essa regra,
mas custa tirar essa obrigaçao do funcionário quando o parágrafo diz mais ou menos
O Assédio Sexual é Ilegal Quando (terrível frase, o assédio nunca pode ser legal):
Um funcionário ou agente da PHA faz da submissão a
demandas indesejadas de sexo, favores sexuais, ou
qualquer outro tipo de conduta sexual uma condição de
obter, manter, utilizar ou desfrutar de alojamento
(ou serviços relacionados com a habitação).
Exemplos:
- Fotos de nus exigentes em troca da aprovação de um
aplicação de aluguer.
- Solicitação de favores sexuais em troca de fazer o necessário
reparações.
- Despejar uma pessoa porque essa pessoa se recusa a ter sexo.
quer dizer, converte a submissao a esses favores em condiçao para obter moradia

parece obvio que é isso

12:02 May 16, 2021 

The big issue here is considering the wrong verb. The verb is to "make submission", i.e. to submit oneself to that obligation. The term in Portuguese is what I suggested, but since the literal transaltion always beats the others, I got a disagree for posting the correct solution. And the literal translation once again runs the risk of going both to the glossary and to the translation. It will only add to the huge collection.

08:48 May 16, 2021 

Honestly, I cannot understand who is doing what? What does it actually mean in PLAIN english?

04:11 May 16, 2021 

Sexual Harassment is Illegal When:
A PHA employee or agent makes submission to
unwelcome demands for sex, sexual favors, or
any other type of sexual conduct a condition of
obtaining, maintaining, using or enjoying housing
(or housing related services).
Examples:
• Demanding nude photos in return for approving a
rental application.
• Requesting sexual favors in return for making needed
repairs.
• Evicting a person because that person refuses to have sex.
AND/OR
A PHA employee or agent subjects a resident or
applicant to unwelcome sexual conduct that is
sufficiently severe or pervasive that it interferes
with that person’s right to obtain, maintain, use,
or enjoy housing (or housing-related services).

para deixar claro que descreve situações de abuso, ainda tem negrito e itálico para remarcar...

a posteriori, descobri como subir imagens e achei conveniente deixar constancia do design da página, com palavras em itálico e negrito, marcando claramente conceitos e significado