----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Winona] Student rental
housing
Steve:
Allow me to play "You Know Who's" advocate, and
state this: If a Private Landlord wants to recruit renters without
Posting or Publishing a public notice, the Landlord may do so, without the
accusation of "Unfair Discriminatory Practice".
If I bought a Duplex, Triplex, or even an
Octoplex, and privately recruited tenants from my Friends from the "Red
Meat Eaters Society", along with my relatives, I would be
"Golden".
Case in Point is an old friend of
mine: He bought a Multi-Unit Large House in South Minneapolis back
in 1994. He is a staunch member, and believer in AA, and never
publicly solicited for tenants. He approached his contacts from
meetings, and his Adult children, and told them they could move into his
"Sober Apartment House", if they were so inclined, and were willing to live by
House Rules. (He never placed an Ad in the Paper, or Posted
a 'Notice' on a Bulletin Board someplace.) He
was able to fill up his apartments privately.
Where would he stand if someone, whom he didn't
solicit, came to him and wanted to rent an empty apartment, and my friend
refused? (I know that City Codes require a License to Operate a
Rental Property, but do Anti-Discriminatory Rental Laws apply to
Landlords who don't publicly solicit tenants?)
Jim Sjoberg
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:48
AM
Subject: Re: [Winona] Student rental
housing
You're correct Dean.
The City Ordinance establishing the Winona
Human Rights Commission says that it is an
unfair discriminatory practice:
. . . To refuse to sell, rent, or lease or
otherwise deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons any real
property because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex,
marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability,
student status if the student is of majority age.
-Steve Kranz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:27
PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] Student rental
housing
In a message dated
6/14/03 8:09:11 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"(Student discrimination) may be legal, but it's not good
policy
If I'm not mistaken it is also
illegal in Winona. I believe that our local Human Rights Act includes as a
"protected class" (along with the usual of race, religion, gender, etc.)
student status.
Dean Lanz
