Re: New members / fair housing laws
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 06:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
Faier housing came up in this thread. Fair Housing Laws seem to be one
of those topics on which there are a variety of opinions and
particularly about how they apply to cohousing.  I presume we
generally support them.

A search of Cohousing-L archives
(http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L/ ) for
(WITH quotes to avoid hits like 'laws ... housing at Fair Oaks") :
"fair housing laws"
got 50 hits. I did not read them all. But I vaguely recall one that
said something like:

'Cohousing has to follow fair housing laws and must not discriminate on
the basis of specified criteria but that does not mean cohousing can
not discourage people from moving to cohousing based on other
criteria.'

That is we could discourage uncooperative people from joining.
Note that the above is my opinion and not an authoritative statement.

Searching the Coho/US website ( http://www.cohousing.org )
for "fair housing"   i.e without "laws")
got one hit:

 Presented by Joshua Rucker, 2008 National Cohousing Conference
 June 21, 2008
 FAIR HOUSING in layman's terms
 Institute for Human Centered Design
 Joshua Rucker
 Project Director DCRC/ FHA FIRST
http://www.cohousing.org/node/2188

Unfortunately my quick browse of Rucker's pdf did not find much about
what cohousing can do that is not prohibited by such laws.

I think an authoritative statement about what cohousing can do without
violating fair housing laws would be helpful.

Anyone remember who posted the list message that I vaguely remember?
Or think of how to dig it out of the 50 hits (presuming it is among them).
Or feel like reading them all?

Fred

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