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Originally Posted by Talk Host
It is my understanding that age discrimination laws are the reason why people under 55 cannot be kept out. It stands to reason that if one cannot be refused housing because they are too old, the same rules apply if they are "too young."
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TH,
There is something about this buried somewhere in my brain. A very, very long time ago I had a real estate license. But I did not quit my day job so I never really used it much. I mainly wanted to learn the stuff. That may be where I picked up that 55 and up is the only kind of age discrimination that is legal.
At the time I heard (think I heard) this, it had more to do with making a rental 55+ as being the only way a landlord could not be required to rent to people with kids. There are a lot more 55+ communities now than there were then. These communities probably would never have proliferated had the 55+ not been legal.
It makes perfect sense that there needs to be a percentage of adults below 55 who are allowed. And I don't know who is doing the head count anyway. My goodness, I bet there are maybe a few sugardaddies and sugarmamas scattered throughout the thousands of households in TV. Think of the enforcement nightmares that could lead to if there was not a little room in the 55+ law.
There are lots of reasons to allow a percentage of adults under 55, but the operative word here is "adults."
The 55+ has been pushed in some places by those wanting to move kids in. There are many circumstances that could arise within families that might thrust grandparents into the fulltime parent role. There was a community somewhere in Florida, I think, that made the national news a year or two ago. The people who bought in because it was a 55+ were being painted as ogres because they wanted a woman to sell her house because she had to have her grandchild move in with her.
It was pretty interesting and infuriating to see how the news was spinning the retirees' attitude. They were not being cut much slack It was not pretty. These were not people who hated kids. These were people who had bought into a 55+ community and now somebody was trying to change the rules. I don't know what ever happened there.
So anyway, from what I "think" I know, but admit I have not researched -- operative word -- "Adults."
Boomer