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Residential Rental Property Unlawful Discrimination
Unlawful housing discrimination can take a variety of forms. under California’s Fair employment and housing Act and Unruh Civil Rights Act, it is unlawful for a landlord, managing agent, property manager, property management company, real estate broker, or salesperson to discriminate against any person because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to them, as well as gender and perception of gender), sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status, source of income, disability, medical condition, or age in any of the following ways:
• Refusing to sell, rent, or lease.
• Refusing to negotiate for a sale, rental, or lease.
• Representing that housing is not available for inspection, sale, or rental when it is, in fact, available.
• Otherwise denying or withholding housing accommodations.
• Providing inferior housing terms, conditions, privileges, facilities, or services.
• Harassing a person in connection with housing accommodations.
• Canceling or terminating a sale or rental agreement.
• Providing segregated or separated housing accommodations.
• Refusing to permit a person with a disability, at the person with a disability’s own expense, to make reasonable modifications to a rental unit that are necessary to allow the person
with a disability “full enjoyment of the premises.” As a condition of making the modifications, the landlord may require the person with a disability to enter into an agreement to restore the interior of the rental unit to its previous condition at the end of the tenancy (excluding reasonable wear and tear).
• Refusing to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when necessary to allow a person with a disability “equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling” (for example, refusing to allow a person with a disability’s companion or service dog). (38)
38 Government Code Sections 12926(p), 12927(c)(1),(e), 12948, 12955(d); Civil Code Sections 51, 51.2, 55.1(b). See Moskovitz et al., California Landlord-Tenant Practice, Section 2.27 (Cal. Cont. Ed. Bar 2009).
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