CRENSHAW SUBWAY COALITION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents; HAAS BHCP PROPERTY OWNER, LLC, Real Party in Interest and Respondent., 75 Cal. App. 5th 917

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HOLDINGS: [1]-A gentrification theory in a challenge to a development project was not cognizable under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., or, by extension, under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq., because it ran afoul of three cautionary standards articulated in case law. It necessarily injected racial considerations into the city's decisionmaking process, it would have would caused private developers to no longer construct or renovate housing units for low-income individuals, and it sought to perpetuate segregation, albeit of a blended community of two minority groups. Even if the proponents of the theory stated a prima facie case, that did not insulate the claim from dismissal.