(a) The city council finds and declares that:
(1) Arbitrary discrimination against persons with minor children exists in the city.
(2) The existence of such discrimination poses a substantial threat to the public health and welfare of a large segment of the community, namely, families with children.
(3) The overall effect of such discrimination is to encourage the flight of families from the city, resulting in the decline of stable, intergenerational neighborhoods, the closure of schools, and the reduction of social and recreational services for children and their families.
(4) Such discrimination cuts across all racial, ethnic, and economic lines, but falls most heavily on minority and single-parent families with children.
(5) It is consistent with the housing element of the General Plan to promote and ensure open and free choice of housing without discrimination on the basis of age or family composition.
(6) Because housing is a fundamental necessity of life, it is against the public policy of the city to discriminate in rental housing against persons based upon their age, parenthood, pregnancy, or the potential or actual tenancy of a minor child.
(Ord. 3411 § 1 (part) 1983)