The real estate industry has made a lot of positive changes to try to provide equal housing opportunities for everyone. Fair housing laws are designed to guarantee a person’s right to obtain housing regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, or disability. Additionally, many state and local laws prohibit discrimination based on…
Crime occupies more real estate in San Francisco headlines than it should. As we slowly emerge from a global pandemic, it is still fresh in the minds of San Francisco housing providers that even law-abiding tenants may flout rental obligations. Outright refusal to rent to applicants with a criminal record may seem like a simple…
Earlier this year, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) settled a familial status housing discrimination case in which a family of four alleged that a property management company refused to allow them to rent an apartment in a multi-unit community because the property manager did not consider children to be appropriate residents…
Hello everybody. Here’s a quick question: Is an apartment building a business establishment? Here’s the quick answer: Yes! In 1959, California enacted the Unruh Civil Rights Act and named it after its author, Jesse Unruh. The Act’s principal objective was (and still is) to prevent many types of unreasonable discrimination by business establishments. Business establishments…
If an employee complains to you about discrimination or harassment, you must that employee with care, because any action you take which the employee could view as punishment or retaliation for the complaint might be construed as illegal retaliation and result in legal action against you and your company.
California Landlords Settle Over ‘No Criminal Record’ and Discrimination California landlords have reached a settlement and agreed to pay $8,000 after a complaint alleging they used a policy of “no criminal or police record of any kind,” and in addition discriminated on the basis of race and national origin.