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Fair Housing Program

Equal access to housing for all is a best safeguarded by law. Fair Housing laws allow you to obtain the housing of your choice, totally free from illegal discrimination.

Practicing Fair Housing

The City of San Diego is dedicated to enhancing fair housing efforts by promoting fair and equivalent housing opportunities for its locals. It is devoted to highlighting the Fair Housing Law, Title VIII of the Civil Liberty Act of 1968 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) by continuing to attend to discrimination in our community and to support programs that will educate the general public about the right to equivalent housing opportunities.

It is the City's policy to offer services without regard to race, color, ancestry, faith, national origin, age, gender, marital status, familial status, source of earnings, sexual preference or disability. This commitment encompasses all programs offered by the City.

Fair housing can be specified as a condition in which individuals of similar earnings levels in the same housing market have a like series of housing option available to them despite race, color, origins, religious beliefs, national origin, age, gender, marital status, familial status, income, sexual orientation or disability.

What is Housing Discrimination?

Housing discrimination is unjust or prejudicial treatment of people, in the location of housing and realty, based on the individual's secured class.

What Guarantees My Right to Fair Housing?

The right to reasonable housing is assured by a variety of federal, state, and local laws, primarily the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the City of San Diego's Municipal Code that make it unlawful to discriminate in renting, selling, funding, and insuring housing.

What Should I Do If I Have a Grievance?

If you believe you have been rejected housing or the opportunity to make an application for housing in the City since of a protected particular, get in touch with the City's Fair Housing Hotline at 844-449-3500.

You are secured by federal, state and city law.

- Race.

- Color.

- Religion.

- National Origin.

- Sex (Gender).

- Disability.

- Familial Status (Households with several children under age 18).


State Law

- Ancestry.

- Citizenship, Immigration Status.

- Primary Language.

- Marital Status.

- Sexual preference.

- Age.

- Medical Condition.

- Genetic Information.

- Gender Identity, Expression.

- Military or Veteran Status.

- Other Arbitrary Status.


City Law

restricts discrimination.
based upon:

- Income (consisting of rental help).

- The City of San Diego's Municipal Code secures tenants from being rejected housing exclusively due to the fact that they receive rental help, such as Section 8 Housing Vouchers, paid directly to the tenant, proprietor or representative of either.

Fair Housing Hotline: 844-449-3500

Common Violations of Fair Housing Law

- Refusal to lease, lease, or sell housing.

- Unwanted sexual advances involving unwanted sexual advances or needing sexual favors for housing rights or opportunities.

- Discriminatory policies, practices, terms or conditions that lead to unequal access to housing or housing-related services.

- Refusal to allow reasonable modifications to a residence space or common usage location, at the occupant's cost, when required to accommodate a disability.

- Refusal to clear up lodgings in guidelines, policies, practices or services, when necessary to accommodate a special needs.

- Denial of house owner's insurance or mortgage.


Report Violations

The City has actually engaged Legal Aid Society of San Diego Inc. to offer FREE neighborhood outreach and legal services.

Fair Housing Center.
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO INC. 110 S. Euclid Ave., San Diego, CA 92114

If you believe you have experienced housing discrimination or harassment, get in touch with the Fair Housing Center within one year of the occurrence. Follow these steps:

1. Call the Fair Housing Hotline at 844-449-3500.

2. Speak to a housing therapist about the event.

3. If merited, your problem will be described a legal representative for an unbiased investigation.

4. If your complaint is accepted, an attempt will be made to help both parties in solving the problem.

5. If the complaint is unresolved and there is proof of a violation of the law, it may be litigated.

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI)

The City of San Diego, in conjunction with the San Diego Regional Alliance for Fair Housing, has completed the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) for 2021 to 2025. Established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the AI is a streamlined process created to help jurisdictions - like ours-- understand and examine our Fair Housing landscape.

The AI report represents a demographic profile of San Diego County, examines the degree of housing needs amongst particular income groups, and examines the series of readily available housing options for locals. The AI likewise evaluates the conditions in the private market and public sector that might restrict the range of housing options or impede an individual's access to housing. More importantly, this AI determines obstacles that may prevent equivalent housing gain access to and develops services to mitigate or remove such obstacles. To see the full report, please go to the following link.

Review the Analyses of Fair Housing Impediments prepared by the San Diego area:

FY 2020/2021 - FY 2024/2025 San Diego Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing ChoiceAppendix A: Public Outreach Summary Report

Appendix B: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data

Appendix C: Fair Housing Outreach Events

Appendix D: Progress Report because 2015 AI

Public Notices - Past Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice:

Analysis of Impediments Public Comment Period Notice

Analysis of Impediments Public Comment Period Notice-Spanish Version

Final 2015-2020 San Diego Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

Final 2010-2015 San Diego Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice


To further show its commitment to reasonable housing, the City has engaged the services of a Fair Housing Company to offer neighborhood outreach and legal services:

Legal Aid Society of San Diego Inc.
1764 San Diego Ave., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92110-1987
877-534-2524|General Inquiries
844-449-3500|Fair Housing Hotline

Other Resources

211 (211sandiego. org)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development|Fair Housing and Level Playing Field
600 Harrison St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107-1300
800-347-3739

CRD|Civil Rights Department (ca.gov).
651 Bannon St., Suite 200.
Sacramento, CA 95811.
800-700-2320

San Diego Regional Alliance for Fair Housing.
Email: [email protected]!.?.! SDMC Section 131.0466 on Reasonable Accommodations in Development. The Federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act need that jurisdictions clear up accommodations to manage handicapped individuals the level playing field to utilize and enjoy a house. In factor to consider of the special requirement and the potential benefit that can be achieved with a requested modification, variances may be approved. To get in touch with the City directly about Fair Housing matters, please contact: City of San Diego. Economic Development Department. 1200 Third Ave., Suite 1400, MS 56D

. San Diego,
CA 92101. Phone: 619-236-6700 Fax: 619-533-3219. Email: [email protected]!.?.! Civil Service Announcements View the 2022 Fair Housing PSA-Full minute; Fair Housing PSA-30
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