Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods?
mhague@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s a law called HOPA that says it’s legal. You can have white only neighborhoods if you have the laws, until someone challenges them, changes them, etc. There’s a specific allowance for old people and nobody wants to take it away enough to have changed it.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Thank you. So this is like the weed is legal at a state level but not federal type of things?
mhague@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s definitely more federal than something like our roads. Fair Housing is a civil rights era law that is federal, and HOPA is a modification to those older laws. I don’t know how a state would break that, or if it’s reasonably possible.
All I meant by the white neighborhood thing is to say that contradictions in laws only matter if you challenge them, and it’s unlikely people will want to “fix” this law when it’s aimed at helping old people, especially ones who are sick or close to death.
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Agree with the “challenge” it part. It feels like they’re using the “sick” part as a loophole because most of these are affluent neighborhoods with golf courses and manicured yards.