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Peoria (/ p i ˈ ɔːr i ə / pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the U.S. state of Arizona.Most of the city is located in Maricopa County, while a portion of it in the north is in Yavapai County.
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Currently the Fair Housing Act protects against discrimination of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. The law applies to all types of housing, rental homes, apartments, condos and houses. The only exception to the act is if an owner of a small rental building lives in the same building he lets.
While the landowners were hardly happy with the law, clear title led many of them to build piers and rent space for houseboats. By 1914, about 200 residences were floating on Lake Union; one was the former Hostess House from the A-Y-P Exposition, transferred to a barge, which remained on the lake into the 1960s.