Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Discrimination (for any reason)

[racheli (racheli]

Sheila,
I think you are quite wrong on the issue of legality:
There are many communities who choose their members
quite carefully.  They can do it because they don't take
loans from banks, and don't use govt. money.

R.  (who is too tired right now to deal with the rest of the issues  
you've brought up).

><<I don't believe it's defensible to bar people from cohousing for *many*
>reasons...>> [emphasis mine] [and I agreed with the majority of the post
>I'm taking this quote from, so sorry to be persnickety about one little
>side issue.]

>I keep coming back to this thought: In the US, it isn't defensible to bar
>anyone from housing for *any* reason having to do with race, age,
>religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. It's illegal. 


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