Re: New members / fair housing laws | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
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 -- I support Bernie Sanders for President but would support Hillary. Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Email: fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org
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Re: New members / fair housing laws Fred H Olson, May 3 2016
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