Something that always confused me.

[azzaman333]

It's because it's easier to avoid old people when they're all grouped up in the one spot.

 

[Silurian]

There is a block of 100 flats for old people at the end of one of the main shopping streets where I live. When I go into the town centre I can not miss them.

 

[Cutlass]

Although the Fair Housing Act was amended in 1988 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability and familial status, Congress intended to preserve housing specifically designed to meet the needs of senior citizens. Housing that meets the FHAct definition of housing for older persons is exempt from the law's familial status requirements, provided that:


•HUD has determined that the dwelling is specifically designed for and occupied by elderly persons under a Federal, State or local government program or
•It is occupied solely by persons who are 62 or older or
•It houses at least one person who is 55 or older in at least 80 percent of the occupied units, and adheres to a policy that demonstrates intent to house persons who are 55 or older.
Therefore, housing that satisfies the legal definition of senior housing or housing for older persons described above, can legally exclude families with children.

Right so far as it goes. Except Aimee is in Canada. So that doesn't apply to her situation.

 

[squall78]

USA #1

i wonder if old people miss yelling at kids to get off their lawns once they move into a senior community?

 

[7ronin]

Canada? Oops senior moment. Okay. Laws regarding Senior only housing in Canada vary by province and territory and have been granted as either blanket or case specific exemptions to the National Human Rights Act. So it's legal. From what I can gather, the policies are very similar to those in the U.S. Fifty-five seems to be the cut off age. There also doesn't seem to be anywhere in Canada which doesn't have some form of seniors only housing.

Issues regarding seniors only housing in Canada seem to be concerned with meeting the needs of an aging population, a decrease in the number of housing units on the market, and the extent to which seniors only housing denies housing to younger persons [more senior housing means less younger person housing].

 

[History_Buff]

Canada? Oops senior moment. Okay. Laws regarding Senior only housing in Canada vary by province and territory and have been granted as either blanket or case specific exemptions to the National Human Rights Act. So it's legal.

Right, but that doesn't allow them to violate the charter:

Equality Rights

Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law

15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

The obvious answer is some response following Section 1, but I can't imagine what that argument would be.