Stevens County, MN Fair Housing

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Type: Ordinance

Status: Adopted on 11/3/80

Source File: http://www.co.stevens.mn.us/docs/ordinances/Fair_Housing/default.html

Declaration of Policy:

Status with regard to public assistance. Discrimination with regard to housing on the basis of race, sex, creed, religion, marital status, and disability adversely affects the health, welfare, peace, and safety of the community. Persons subject to such discrimination suffer depressed living conditions, and create conditions which endanger the public peace and order. The public policy of the County of Stevens is declared to be to foster equal opportunity for all to obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing without regard to their race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, disability status, sex and strictly in accord with their individual merits as human beings. It is also the policy of the County to protect all persons from all unfounded charges of discrimination.