It is the policy of the city of Dallas, through fair, orderly, and lawful procedures, to promote the opportunity for each person to obtain and maintain habitable housing without regard to race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, national origin, or source of income. This policy is grounded upon a recognition of the right of every person to have access to adequate habitable housing of the person's own choice, and to maintain the same free from the denial of this right because of race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, national origin, or source of income, which denial is detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of the city and constitutes an unjust deprivation of rights, which is within the power and proper responsibility of government to prevent. (Ord. Nos. 13456; 14809; 20652; 20780; 30246; 32157)