Adamson Companies v. Zipp, 163 Cal. App. 3d 1 (1984)

Citation: Adamson Companies v. Zipp, 163 Cal. App. 3d 1 (1984)
Parent Document: Adamson Companies v. Zipp, 163 Cal. App. 3d 1 (1984)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 1984-11-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2139884/adamson-companies-v-zipp/ ↗

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In reaching this conclusion, we are cognizant, as was the Legislature, of the critical shortage of decent housing available in particular to families with children in California. We are also aware of the social distortions which result from discriminatory practices in the housing market, which further exacerbate the situation confronting such families. (See note, op. cit. supra, 13 Golden Gate L.Rev. at pp. 702-704.) As the Supreme Court commented in Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson, supra: "Finally, the Wolfsons introduced a number of recent studies by various groups documenting the extensive nature of the practice of discrimination against families with children in rental housing that currently exists throughout California. As these and more recent studies revealed, in many of the major metropolitan areas of the state, families with children are excluded from 60 to 80 percent of the available rental housing. (Fn. omitted.)" (30 Cal.3d at pp. 728-729.) This discrimination against such families has imposed an especially critical hardship for low and moderate income families in California, 90 percent of which, according to a 1980 survey, are comprised of a single-parent female who is either unmarried, widowed or divorced. (Note, op.cit. supra, 13 Golden Gate L.Rev. at pp. 699-704, 700 fn. 14.)[27] The factors which coalesced to create the rental shortage include population growth, high interest rates and building costs (which have constricted new apartment construction and the ability of many families to buy a home), condominium conversions, the deterioration of existing housing stock, and the growing divorce rate, which requires two shelters to house persons formerly in one. (Note, op.cit. supra, 13 Golden Gate L.Rev. at pp. 699-700.)

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