Landlords
Health & Safety
- The California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on race, ancestry, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, source of income and military or veteran status.
- The Unruh Civil Rights Act also prohibits discrimination based on the bases of age, immigration status, and primary language.
- A landlord cannot evict a tenant for complaining about unsafe or illegal living conditions, such as broken pipes, no hot water, nonfunctional or missing exterior door locks, broken windows, lack of heat, insect or rodent infestation, malfunctioning appliances, or non-functioning smoke detectors.
- A landlord cannot evict a tenant for reporting unsafe or illegal living conditions to government agencies.
- A landlord cannot retaliate against a tenant by failing to remedy unsafe or illegal living conditions.
- A landlord cannot harass a tenant. Types of harassment prohibited by state law include:
- Being violent towards you or making credible threats of violence.
- Removing the belongings of a tenant from a rental unit.
- Threatening to report you to immigration authorities.
- Shut off power, heat, or water to a tenant's unit (when not required for maintenance or repair).
- Locking you out of your unit.
- Removing doors or windows.
- A landlord cannot enter a unit except for specific reasons defined by law and must provide notice of when they plan to enter and why they are entering.