It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice:
(a) For the owners, real estate broker, real estate salesperson or employees or agent thereof:
(1) To refuse to sell, rent, assign, lease or sublease or offer for sale, rental, lease, assignment or sublease, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale, rental, lease assignment or sublease of any real property or portion thereof which is in fact listed or available for sale, rent, lease or sublease to any person who has shown the financial ability to satisfy the terms and conditions of a sale, rental, assignment, leases or sublease of the property, or to otherwise deny or withhold any housing accommodation or real property or any part or portion thereof to or from any person because of the race, color, sex, religion, national origin or ancestry of such person;
(2) To discriminate against any person because of his or her race, color, sex, religion, national origin or ancestry in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, lease, rental, assignment or sublease of any housing accommodations or real property or part or portion thereof or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith; or
(3) To print, publish, circulate, issue, display, post or mail or cause to be printed, published, circulated, issued, displayed posted or mailed any statement, advertisement, publication or sign or use any form of application for the purchase, rental, lease, assignment or sublease of any housing accommodations or real property or part or portion thereof which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to race, color, sex, religion, national origin or ancestry or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(b) For any person or financial institution to which application is made for financial assistance for the purchase, acquisition or construction of any housing accommodations or real property or part or portion thereof, or any agent or employee thereof:
(1) To discriminate against any person because of the race, sex, color, religion, national origin or ancestry of such person or of prospective occupants or tenants of such housing accommodations or real property or part or portion thereof in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing or in the fixing of the rates, terms, conditions or provisions of any such financial assistance or in the extension of services in connection therewith; or
(2) To use any form of application of such financial assistance or to make any record or inquiry in connection with applications for such financial assistance.
(2010 Code, § 8-803)