Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Unseen Bullying Epidemic in Senior Communities - with hot link

[Wendy Willbanks Wiesner (wwiesner]

Hello All,

There is a current legal challenge that may well have effects beyond what
are seemingly narrow confines (see link below).  Will be very interesting
to see what happens.

http://interlochenpublicradio.org/post/weve-got-issues-bay-view-religious-discrimination-case-moves-forward

Wendy

Wendy Willbanks Wiesner
Executive Director
Partnerships for Affordable Cohousing (PFAC)

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Dick Margulis <dick [at] dmargulis.com> wrote:

> On 5/16/2018 3:33 PM, Nancy Baughman Csuti wrote:
>
>> I was under the impression that anyone who wanted to move into a for-sale
>> cohousing unit could otherwise it violates fair housing laws. Do people
>> actually have to agree to the principles and spirit of cohousing to buy a
>> unit?
>>
>
> It would depend on whether the community was organized as a condominium or
> a co-op. Co-op boards indeed have the ability to vet buyers, although they
> are required to comply with fair housing laws just like everyone else. That
> is, you can't discriminate based on membership in a protected class, but
> you can discriminate on some other basis.
>
> In our case, we're a condo association, so we have no say in who decides
> to buy. However, we do impose a set of requirements on homeowners, one of
> which is a requirement that they agree to our stated values and another of
> which is a requirement that they agree to abide by our rules.
>
> Someone can lie, of course, and claim to agree with something they do not
> agree with. That's a risk we take, because we realize that there's not much
> we can do to prevent lying. That said, we rely on the fact that living out
> in the middle of nowhere in a neighborhood of expensive, small, closely
> spaced homes with most amenities in a building teeming with neighbors is a
> concept that doesn't appeal to everyone. So why would someone deliberately
> lie to be able to live there?
>
>
>
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