Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Fair Housing Act and community desires for "diversity"

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

On the other hand … it is completely legal for a group of seniors to 
discriminate against people under 55, or families with young children.  Go 
figure.

R Philip Dowds
175 Harvey Street, Unit 5
Cambridge, MA 02140

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> On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Mabel Liang <mabel [at] twomeeps.com> wrote:
> 
> However, age _is_ a protected class. We had someone from the City of
> Cambridge come talk to us about Fair Housing. When someone asked how we
> could phrase a preference for young families with children, she said
> (I'm paraphrasing, because I wasn't able to attend), "I'm not going to
> help you break the law."