                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DECLARATION OF POLICY (§ 36-96.1)

A. This chapter shall be known and referred to as the Virginia Fair Housing Law.

B. It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide for fair housing
throughout the Commonwealth, to all its citizens, regardless of race, color,
religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status, source of funds,
sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, or disability, and to that
end to prohibit discriminatory practices with respect to residential housing by
any person or group of persons, in order that the peace, health, safety,
prosperity, and general welfare of all the inhabitants of the Commonwealth may
be protected and ensured. This law shall be deemed an exercise of the police
power of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the protection of the people of the
Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 591, §§ 36-86, 36-87; 1973, c. 358; 1978, c. 138; 1989, c.
88; 1991, c. 557; 2020, cc. 477, 1137, 1140; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 477, 478.