Do not discriminate or harass in housing
Cal. Gov. Code § 12955State law
Housing providers must not discriminate against or harass tenants, residents, applicants, home seekers, or others because of a protected characteristic.
Answers the question “What can they check about me?”
The source
… and Fact Sheets What Discrimination Looks Like California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (also known as FEHA) applies to most providers of housing and services related to housing such as landlords, tenant screening companies, real estate agents, home sellers, builders, mortgage lenders, and housing authorities. This law prohibits people or entities that provide housing from discriminating against or harassing tenants, homeowners, residents, their guests, housing or mortgage applicants, home buyers, and others. Examples of actions that could be discriminatory if based on a person’s protected characteristic: Refusal to sell, rent, or lease rooms, apartments, mobile homes, condos, or houses Refusal to negotiate for the sale, rental, or lease of housing Informing someone that an apartment is not available for inspection, sale,…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D016, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Exemptions
- The document describes exceptions for certain owner-occupied shared housing and qualifying senior housing; see tenant conditions.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Screening
- Requirement
- Housing providers must not discriminate against or harass tenants, residents, applicants, home seekers, or others because of a protected characteristic.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is CA.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 250 sample addresses in California on Oct 1, 2026.
- 250 applies
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 2 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 3515 Fillmore St, San Francisco: Applies. Statewide California rule in force (Cal. Gov. Code § 12955); no building condition in it excludes this address.
- 145 Taylor St, San Francisco: Applies. Statewide California rule in force (Cal. Gov. Code § 12955); no building condition in it excludes this address.
- 140 Portola Dr, San Francisco: Applies. Statewide California rule in force (Cal. Gov. Code § 12955); no building condition in it excludes this address.
- 10635 Sherman Grove Ave, Los Angeles: Applies. Statewide California rule in force (Cal. Gov. Code § 12955); no building condition in it excludes this address.
- 1609 Addison St, Berkeley: Applies. Statewide California rule in force (Cal. Gov. Code § 12955); no building condition in it excludes this address.