Racial, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability, and sex and religious discrimination in housing, public accommodations and public services adversely affect the health, welfare, peace and safety of the community. Persons subject to the discrimination suffer depressed living conditions, poverty and lack of hope, injuring the public welfare, placing a burden upon the public treasury to ameliorate the conditions thus produced, and creating conditions which endanger the public peace and order. The public policy of the city is declared to be to foster equal opportunity for all to obtain housing, public accommodations, and public services without regard to their race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sex or ancestry and strictly in accord with their individual merits as human beings.
(Prior Code, § 2.74) (Ord. 44, Third Series, effective 3-24-1988)