After public hearing receipt of testimony, the City Council finds and declares:
That discrimination against tenants on the basis of their status as students exists in the City of Los Angeles;
That there is a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the City of Los Angeles;
That students, who generally do not have the economic resources to buy homes, must often lie in close proximity to their campus so they can commute between their school, their home and their job; however, because of discrimination on the basis of their status as student, these students are forced to live further from campus than would otherwise be necessary;
That such discrimination cuts across all racial, ethnic and economic lines;
That because housing is a fundamental necessity of life, it is against the public policy of the City of Los Angeles to discriminate in rental housing upon the basis of a tenant’s status as a student.