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State And Local Laws Banning Source-Of-Income Discrimination, Robert G. Schwemm
State And Local Laws Banning Source-Of-Income Discrimination, Robert G. Schwemm
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Most states and many localities have civil rights laws that are substantially equivalent to the federal Fair Housing Act ("FHA"),' which means they at least ban discrimination based on the seven factors outlawed by the FHA (i.e., race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability). Many of these state and local laws also include other protected classes, such as age, marital status, sexual orientation, and source of income.
This Article reviews state and local efforts to outlaw source-of-income discrimination.4 (For its part, Congress currently has multiple bills before it that would add such a prohibition to the FHA.) …