Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fair Housing Law: was: [C-L]_Encouraging Multigenerational Community

[Jeff Coffin (jcoffin]

Raines Cohen <rc2-coho-L [at] raines.com> writes:

> Remember, that discrimination in housing (i.e. unit sales itself) is
> not legal. You can set requirements for joining your
> education/social and investment/development group (i.e. the
> pre-ownership group),

FWIW: Recently, while talking to an attorney about this very issue
(among other things), she advised me that a court would most likely
determine that the final intent of the group was clearly housing and
that the above distinction was not legally valid and risky.  She
thought that a pre-development group could be sued for discrimination
under Fair Housing Law even though they weren't actively selling
housing.

She recommended having a workshop or the like to make all the members
aware of the legal issues involved and how to be appropriately
inclusive.




--jeff


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