[urbanrealtor]

California typically has tighter housing controls than the Federal government and most other states with regards to housing.

Here is the page delineating what qualifies as discrimination and what the exceptions are.

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/discrimination.shtml

basically there are 2 exceptions:

-Boarders:
If you rent out a single room to a single boarder in an SFR (including attached I think) then you are not subject to antidiscrimination rules.
That does not extend to renting out multiple rooms or to multiple people.
Just for a family renting out one room of their house.

-Roommates:
If you are going to share common areas (kitchens, bathrooms) you can express a gender preference.

There is also senior housing.

[urbanrealtor]

California typically has tighter housing controls than the Federal government and most other states with regards to housing.

Here is the page delineating what qualifies as discrimination and what the exceptions are.

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/discrimination.shtml

basically there are 2 exceptions:

-Boarders:
If you rent out a single room to a single boarder in an SFR (including attached I think) then you are not subject to antidiscrimination rules.
That does not extend to renting out multiple rooms or to multiple people.
Just for a family renting out one room of their house.

-Roommates:
If you are going to share common areas (kitchens, bathrooms) you can express a gender preference.

There is also senior housing.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=UCGal][quote=urbanrealtor][

Also, the OP could be sued super-badly by using protected classes.
.[/quote]
Is this true in a roommate situation? The OP said that he was interviewing for a room rental in his house… I thought the fair housing act stuff was applied differently in roommate situations…. but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Regardless, he’s limiting his options for great roommates if he rejects candidates based on ethnicity alone… It’s challenging to find compatible housemates… why eliminate for irrelevent reasons.[/quote]

I actually think there are some exceptions for roommate situations. I don’t recall if they are de jure or de facto exceptions. And I do get that one should be permitted to express idiosyncratic preference if sharing a room.

However, I stand by what I said.

If I were to post a roommate ad and added “NO JEWS PLEASE” I think that I would deserve the hate mail I would get.

I also think that a lawsuit would be in the offing.

Considering how many Jews I am related to, I suspect it would be a shitstorm.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=UCGal][quote=urbanrealtor][

Also, the OP could be sued super-badly by using protected classes.
.[/quote]
Is this true in a roommate situation? The OP said that he was interviewing for a room rental in his house… I thought the fair housing act stuff was applied differently in roommate situations…. but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Regardless, he’s limiting his options for great roommates if he rejects candidates based on ethnicity alone… It’s challenging to find compatible housemates… why eliminate for irrelevent reasons.[/quote]

I actually think there are some exceptions for roommate situations. I don’t recall if they are de jure or de facto exceptions. And I do get that one should be permitted to express idiosyncratic preference if sharing a room.

However, I stand by what I said.

If I were to post a roommate ad and added “NO JEWS PLEASE” I think that I would deserve the hate mail I would get.

I also think that a lawsuit would be in the offing.

Considering how many Jews I am related to, I suspect it would be a shitstorm.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=UCGal][quote=urbanrealtor][

Also, the OP could be sued super-badly by using protected classes.
.[/quote]
Is this true in a roommate situation? The OP said that he was interviewing for a room rental in his house… I thought the fair housing act stuff was applied differently in roommate situations…. but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Regardless, he’s limiting his options for great roommates if he rejects candidates based on ethnicity alone… It’s challenging to find compatible housemates… why eliminate for irrelevent reasons.[/quote]

I actually think there are some exceptions for roommate situations. I don’t recall if they are de jure or de facto exceptions. And I do get that one should be permitted to express idiosyncratic preference if sharing a room.

However, I stand by what I said.

If I were to post a roommate ad and added “NO JEWS PLEASE” I think that I would deserve the hate mail I would get.

I also think that a lawsuit would be in the offing.

Considering how many Jews I am related to, I suspect it would be a shitstorm.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=UCGal][quote=urbanrealtor][

Also, the OP could be sued super-badly by using protected classes.
.[/quote]
Is this true in a roommate situation? The OP said that he was interviewing for a room rental in his house… I thought the fair housing act stuff was applied differently in roommate situations…. but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Regardless, he’s limiting his options for great roommates if he rejects candidates based on ethnicity alone… It’s challenging to find compatible housemates… why eliminate for irrelevent reasons.[/quote]

I actually think there are some exceptions for roommate situations. I don’t recall if they are de jure or de facto exceptions. And I do get that one should be permitted to express idiosyncratic preference if sharing a room.

However, I stand by what I said.

If I were to post a roommate ad and added “NO JEWS PLEASE” I think that I would deserve the hate mail I would get.

I also think that a lawsuit would be in the offing.

Considering how many Jews I am related to, I suspect it would be a shitstorm.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=UCGal][quote=urbanrealtor][

Also, the OP could be sued super-badly by using protected classes.
.[/quote]
Is this true in a roommate situation? The OP said that he was interviewing for a room rental in his house… I thought the fair housing act stuff was applied differently in roommate situations…. but I could be (and often am) wrong.

Regardless, he’s limiting his options for great roommates if he rejects candidates based on ethnicity alone… It’s challenging to find compatible housemates… why eliminate for irrelevent reasons.[/quote]

I actually think there are some exceptions for roommate situations. I don’t recall if they are de jure or de facto exceptions. And I do get that one should be permitted to express idiosyncratic preference if sharing a room.

However, I stand by what I said.

If I were to post a roommate ad and added “NO JEWS PLEASE” I think that I would deserve the hate mail I would get.

I also think that a lawsuit would be in the offing.

Considering how many Jews I am related to, I suspect it would be a shitstorm.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=pri_dk][quote]African origin in the US connotes, but does not necessarily denote, descent from slaves.
Descent from slaves can connote lower social class and less affluence.
Lower class can connote propensity toward criminality.
Criminality is undesirable in a tenant.
Here is the problem with that chain:
It is literally true but complete bullshit.
Most welfare recipients are white.
Most criminals are white.
[…][/quote]

Someone needs to revisit their Logic 101 textbook.[/quote]

What was illogical about that statement?

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=pri_dk][quote]African origin in the US connotes, but does not necessarily denote, descent from slaves.
Descent from slaves can connote lower social class and less affluence.
Lower class can connote propensity toward criminality.
Criminality is undesirable in a tenant.
Here is the problem with that chain:
It is literally true but complete bullshit.
Most welfare recipients are white.
Most criminals are white.
[…][/quote]

Someone needs to revisit their Logic 101 textbook.[/quote]

What was illogical about that statement?

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=pri_dk][quote]African origin in the US connotes, but does not necessarily denote, descent from slaves.
Descent from slaves can connote lower social class and less affluence.
Lower class can connote propensity toward criminality.
Criminality is undesirable in a tenant.
Here is the problem with that chain:
It is literally true but complete bullshit.
Most welfare recipients are white.
Most criminals are white.
[…][/quote]

Someone needs to revisit their Logic 101 textbook.[/quote]

What was illogical about that statement?

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