A comprehensive ordinance designed to streamline this city’s anti-discrimination regulations and bring them into conformity with state laws, has been introduced to City Council here. The measure, proposed by the Mayor’s Commission on Human Relations, covers employment practices, housing, and public accommodations, and increases penalties for violations. Employers who are required to conform to the regulations are defined as “anyone who hires five or more persons, ” rather than “one who hires more than five persons, ” as at present.
The new regulations would prohibit real estate brokers from serving discriminatory orders from any property owners, regardless of the number of units involved. It would outlaw “blockbusting, ” defined as an attempt to get a property owner to sell or rent his home under the threat that a change is taking place in the neighborhood that will lower property values. The new law also increases penalties from $100 to a maximum of $300.
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