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<br />Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing City of Pleasanton | F-17 <br /> <br />Familial Status <br />Familial status refers to the presence of at least one child under 18 years old. Examples of familial <br />status discrimination include refusal to rent to families with children, eviction of families once a <br />child joins, and confinement of families to specific floors of a building. Single parent households <br />are a fair housing protected class and may experience greater housing affordability challenges due <br />to typically lower household incomes, especially among female-headed households, compared to <br />two-parent households. In 2019, married couples with children in Pleasanton made up 33.4 <br />percent of the households (Table F-4), and three percent of households were female-headed <br />households with children and no spouse or partner (Table F-5). A larger share of households in <br />Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley Region are married couples with children than the in County where <br />23.4 percent of households in 2019 were married couples with children. Pleasanton and the Tri- <br />Valley Region also have a somewhat smaller share of female-headed households with children <br />than the County. Since 2010 in Pleasanton, the percentage of married couples with children and <br />female-headed households with children and no spouse or partner has decreased slightly. <br />Table F-4: Percentage of Married-Couple Households with Children (2019) <br />Year Pleasanton Tri-Valley Region Alameda County <br />2010 35.0% 33.3% 22.6% <br />2019 33.4% 34.6% 23.4% <br />Source: ACS 2019 5-Year Estimates, Table DP02 <br /> <br />Table F-5: Percentage of Female-Headed Households with Children, No <br />Spouse/Partner Present (2019) <br />Year Pleasanton Tri-Valley Region Alameda County <br />2010 4.9% 5.0% 6.8% <br />2019 3.0% 3.0% 4.1% <br />Source: ACS 2019 5-Year Estimates, Table DP02 <br /> <br />Female-headed households with children may face particular housing challenges, with pervasive <br />gender inequality resulting in lower wages for women. Moreover, the added need for childcare, <br />and for units with a larger number of bedrooms, can make finding a home that is affordable more <br />challenging. In Pleasanton, 16.6 percent of female-headed households with children fall below the <br />Federal Poverty Line (212 households)7. <br /> <br /> <br />7 Housing Needs Assessment, Appendix A.