Health And Safety
Discrimination and Harassment
- 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.
- Your landlord cannot evict you for complaining to them 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.
- Your landlord cannot evict you for reporting unsafe or illegal living conditions to government agencies.
- Your landlord cannot retaliate against you by failing to remedy unsafe or illegal living conditions.
- Your landlord cannot harass you. Types of harassment prohibited by state law include:
- Being violent towards you or making credible threats of violence.
- Removing your belongings from your rental unit.
- Threatening to report you to immigration authorities.
- Shutting off power, heat, or water to your unit (when not required for maintenance or repair).
- Locking you out of your unit.
- Removing doors or windows.
- Your landlord cannot enter your unit except for specific reasons defined by law and must provide notice of when they plan to enter and why they are entering.