Cohousing-L Mailing List: Discrimination?

[Joani Blank (jeblank]

At 08:20 AM 3/14/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Topics covered in this issue include:
I expect that the jury is still out on discrimination as far as membership
in cohousing groups is concerned. That changes when the group dissolves and
becomes a condominum (or planned unit develpment) homeowners association.
At that point discrimination hypothetically becomes clearly unlawful. I say
hypothetically, because in real life, cohousing units which turn over after
the original batcg if owners have moved in quite often go to others already
living in the community who want to move for any number of reasons, or they
are offered to households on the group's waiting list" or friends and
relatives of existing owners, before they are offered for public sale which
is (as I understand it ) when anti-discrimination protections kick in in
earnest. If I am competely off base about this I hope that someone will set
me (and the rest of us) straight. 

Joani Blank
Doyle St. CoHousing and Old Oakland CoHousing