Iowa Real Estate Broker Exam — All Questions

Which class is protected in housing by the Iowa Civil Rights Act but not by the federal Fair Housing Act?

• a.Familial status, such as a household that includes children
• b.Disability of a person who will live in the dwelling once sold
• c.National origin of the buyer, renter, or prospective lessee
• d.Sexual orientation of the buyer, renter, or prospective lessee✓

Section 216.8(1)"a" makes it an unfair or discriminatory practice to refuse to sell, rent, lease, negotiate for, or otherwise make unavailable any housing "because of the race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, or familial status of such person," and the same list runs through section 216.8A. Familial status, national origin and disability are all federal Fair Housing Act classes as well, so none of them is what Iowa adds; sexual orientation and creed are the Iowa additions. Currency matters here: 2025 Iowa Acts ch. 1 amended sections 216.8, 216.8A, 216.12 and 216.12A and removed gender identity from the Act, so prep material printed before 2025 recites a different list. Section 216.12(1) exempts an owner-occupied building of no more than two units, the rental of fewer than four rooms in an owner-occupied dwelling, and an owner-occupied building of no more than four units where the owner takes the homestead tax credit - but section 216.12(2) says those exemptions "do not apply to advertising related to those dwellings."