Except as otherwise provided in this chapter:
A. No person shall discriminate in leasing, selling or otherwise making
available any housing facilities.
B. No person shall discriminate in the terms, conditions, maintenance
or repair in providing any housing facility.
C. No person shall refuse to lend money for the purchase or repair of
any real property or insure any real property solely because of the
location in the City of such real property.
D. No person shall promote real estate transactions by representing
that changes are occurring or will occur in an area with respect to
any protected classification.
E. No person shall place a sign or other display on any real property
which indicates that the property is for sale or has been sold when
it is not for sale or has not recently been sold.
F. Landlords must carefully consider the reason for and length of time
since an actual eviction of, or eviction filing against, a rental
applicant. No landlord shall have or enforce a blanket policy that
prohibits renting to a person based on eviction filings or actual
evictions, or outright bans prospective tenants with prior actual
evictions or eviction filings.
G. No person is permitted to establish a blanket policy banning any
aspect of housing because of a conviction record except when mandated
by federal or state law.
H. A landlord may not refuse or base an adverse action, in whole or
in part, on either an applicant or tenant with the status as a victim
of domestic violence or having an early lease termination under MCLA
§ 554.601b.
I. No person shall fail to account for any tenant or prospective tenant's
entire source of income when using a financial income standard for
entering into or renewing a tenancy or lease for a housing facility.
J. A landlord may not require an individual who receives housing assistance
of dedicated rent via voucher or any other housing subsidies to earn
any more than what is needed to pay for utilities as a requirement
for tenancy.
The following practices are not violations of this chapter:
A. For a religious organization to restrict the occupancy of any of
its housing facilities or accommodations which are operated as a direct
part of its religious activities to persons who are members of the
denomination involved or who agree to conform to the moral tenets
of that religious organization. This exception does not include housing
facilities or homeless shelters that are generally made available
to the public at large as part of the religious organization's
mission, proselytizing, or religious activities.
B. For the owner of an owner-occupied, one-family or two-family dwelling,
or a housing facility or public accommodation facility, respectively,
devoted entirely to the housing and accommodation of individuals of
one sex, to restrict occupancy and use based on sex.
C. To limit occupancy in a housing project or to provide public accommodations
or employment privileges or assistance to persons of low income, persons
over 50 years of age or disabled persons.
D. To discriminate in any arrangement for the shared ownership, lease
or residency of a housing facility.
E. In the rental of housing facilities in a building which contains
dwelling units for not more than two families living independently
of each other if the owner of the building or a member of the owner's
family resides in one of the dwelling units, or to the rental of a
room or rooms in a single-family dwelling by an individual if the
lessor or a member of the lessor's family resides in the dwelling.