Category: Discrimination

Guilt by accommodation?

21 December, 2012 (10:30) | Apartments, Boston, Discrimination, Fair Housing, Landlords, Law, Leases, Real estate taxes, Rental, US News |

By:David A. Smith   Of course we are always judged by the company we keep, but can we be fined for the company we rent to – not for anything they are observed to have done or allowed to be done, but simply because we don’t like the look of the renters?   The not-quite-scarlet [...]

On the Web, nobody knows you’re authentic

16 July, 2010 (08:58) | Co-ops, Discrimination, Housing, Innovations, Internet, New York City, Speculation |

By: David A. Smith   Transparency’s a two-way window.  We forget that until it bites us.   Too much information?   As profiled in a recent New York Times, article, transparency is coming to real estate, nowhere so more than in New York, with its arbitrary and capricious living clubs known as co-ops:   In [...]

Just discriminating against *you*

23 March, 2010 (10:50) | Children, Civil Rights, Condominiums, Discrimination, Litigation, Massachusetts |

By: David A. Smith   During one of the very late night endless card sessions of my single days, we were lacking a fourth for bridge and so settled for hearts.  With Jeff leading, I created a lead that gave Eric, playing behind Jeff, a chance to dump the queen of spades on him.  He [...]