HOA Homefront: When laws collide: Child safety or discrimination?

/ Owner - April 22, 2017

Common interest development associations (aka “HOAs”) are governed by both state and federal Fair Housing laws. Fair Housing laws prohibit “familial status” discrimination, which means singling out children for any disparate treatment. (This prohibition exempts senior communities, which are exempted under Civil Code 51.2.) A complete ban on children would be a classic example of familial status discrimination. Another form of such discrimination would be imposing special restrictions upon children and not to adults.     Read the article……………..

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