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Seems like this is little more than an end around the fair housing act for landlords.

by treis 9y ago

always_good 9y ago
You'll have to elaborate how reaching out to tenant candidates directly gets around the Fair Housing Act and what that act attempts to address.
- ada1981 9y ago
  For example, it’s illegal not to rent to single moms. But maybe you don’t want to. So you can look through the tenants looking for a place and hand pick one before advertising your place. Or maybe you don’t like gay folks, or black folks, etc.
  - treis 9y ago
    Exactly. Here's an article about FB being sued for allowing discriminatory ads: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/28/facebook-sued-for-allegedly-allowing-housing-advertisers-to-discriminate/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22811514cda6 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/2...
  - scarface74 9y ago
    It’s not that hard to discriminate and make it hard for someone to prove that’s what you’re doing.
    - himom 9y ago
      I was at Oren’s Hummus Shop in Mountain View when an Israeli-American couple were plopped down next to me. They procesed to converse loudly, and the male smugly boasted about how “horribly old” one rental candidate was, how he’d just waste his time and say it was already rented. Ageism never gets old, but then when it does, it gets bitter as the younger ageism treats it like the elderly in Korea... eventually, it jumps from a bridge due to poverty, shunning, isolation and neglect.
      - ada1981 8y ago
        +1 for reminding me how much I used to love Oren’s while living in Palo Alto. :)
astura 9y ago
The FHA makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status. I very purposely didn't include any information about any of those categories in my ad. The only thing you could discern from my ad was that I was (and still am) married. That's like saying employers looking for candidates on LinkedIn or the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" thread is "little more than an end for employers to get around anti-discrimination laws."

Seems like this is little more than an end around the fair housing act for landlords.

by treis 9y ago

Seems like this is little more than an end around the fair housing act for landlords.

You'll have to elaborate how reaching out to tenant candidates directly gets around the Fair Housing Act and what that act attempts to address.

ada1981 9y ago
For example, it’s illegal not to rent to single moms. But maybe you don’t want to. So you can look through the tenants looking for a place and hand pick one before advertising your place. Or maybe you don’t like gay folks, or black folks, etc.
- treis 9y ago
  Exactly. Here's an article about FB being sued for allowing discriminatory ads: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/28/facebook-sued-for-allegedly-allowing-housing-advertisers-to-discriminate/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22811514cda6 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/2...
- scarface74 9y ago
  It’s not that hard to discriminate and make it hard for someone to prove that’s what you’re doing.
  - himom 9y ago
    I was at Oren’s Hummus Shop in Mountain View when an Israeli-American couple were plopped down next to me. They procesed to converse loudly, and the male smugly boasted about how “horribly old” one rental candidate was, how he’d just waste his time and say it was already rented. Ageism never gets old, but then when it does, it gets bitter as the younger ageism treats it like the elderly in Korea... eventually, it jumps from a bridge due to poverty, shunning, isolation and neglect.
    - ada1981 8y ago
      +1 for reminding me how much I used to love Oren’s while living in Palo Alto. :)

astura 9y ago

The FHA makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status. I very purposely didn't include any information about any of those categories in my ad. The only thing you could discern from my ad was that I was (and still am) married. That's like saying employers looking for candidates on LinkedIn or the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" thread is "little more than an end for employers to get around anti-discrimination laws."