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The Fair Housing Council of Riverside County has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against Riverside.
The council maintains that a Riverside ordinance that limits how many people may rent single-family homes in the city, as well as a regulation that requires some people to get a permit before they can rent a home there, are both discriminatory and unconstitutional, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise.
Since the 1950s, Riverside has had an ordinance that limited to four the number of people who could live in a rented home.
However, the law was never strictly enforced until last year, when homeowners near UC Riverside began asking the city to crack down on too many individuals living in rented houses.
As part of that crackdown effort, the city also passed a regulation last year that required owners of single-family homes to get a special permit if they wanted to rent to two or more people, according to the report.
