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Where this gets a bit dicey is the "club membership" part... here in the US, you couldn't get away with no <racial group> allowed, but members of a particular c
by poulsbohemian 4y ago
Where this gets a bit dicey is the "club membership" part... here in the US, you couldn't get away with no <racial group> allowed, but members of a particular church where the church owns the complex, for example, as well as "over-55" communities are places where the state has allowed this type of discrimination. There is also a loophole in US law for multi-tenant dwellings of 4 or fewer units where the owner/landlord lives on site - they have a lot of latitude, let's put it that way. Individual US states have different degrees of protections for various group. While this example in Canada is unlikely to fly here in the US, the fact that it is set up as more of a co-op with deed restrictions (I assume??) likely means there would need to be a lawsuit to completely overturn it.
That said - as a real estate agent, I wouldn't touch it. No offense to any group that wants to have their own private community, but as a professional it sends a bad message if I start treating different members of society in discriminatory ways. Sometimes this means I have to work with people who's political / religious / social beliefs are very different from my own, as an example, but that's part of being a professional, IE: treat everyone right.