No children need apply
NO KIDS read the sign on the front door of the apartment building in San Francisco's Sunset district. Photographed last summer by investigators for the city's consumer-fraud unit, the sign has just cost the landlords a $4,000 fine. The penalty, agreed to by court-approved settlement, was the first under a three-year-old San Francisco law prohibiting apartment owners from refusing to rent to families with children.
The law is a response to a growing U.S. phenomenon that American families find more and more intolerable. As the single-family house becomes a...