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I don't see how my owning a 3-bedroom house jacks up your rent, that's absurd.
And even if it does, it's the free market at work.
If you buy a rental house and kick out the three renters in order to live in the house, you have just incrementally jacked up rents.
And there is no free market, because in a free market a developer could have built three tiny houses for three people, and government allowed only one house which could be occupied by one or by three.
I was renting with 2 other single males in their mid 20's a couple years ago. We were all teachers at the time, and could have afforded the rent for the houses in our price range between 2 of us fairly easily. Anyway, after calling, I was told no because they were looking for a family. I don't have a problem with that, but people with kids shouldn't have a legal recourse either.
Bzzzt. State by state. My single friend in NC was muscled out of several renting opportunities in favor of married couples and the law clearly states that unless you are a single parent, you have no right to (successfully) sue.
Family status is not a federally protected class.
Familial status is one of the specific protected classes listed in the FHA.
If you buy a rental house and kick out the three renters in order to live in the house, you have just incrementally jacked up rents.
And there is no free market, because in a free market a developer could have built three tiny houses for three people, and government allowed only one house which could be occupied by one or by three.
I didn't buy a damn rental house, I bought one from the estate of an elderly woman who had lived there by herself for many years.
If you don't like things the way they are write your Congressman, but leave me out of it.
Housing Discrimination Against People Who Are Single: 4 Studies
In the first study, the choices were a married couple, a single woman, and a single man. If there were no bias, each would have been selected 33% of the time. Here are the actual results:
Study 1
70% married couple
18% single woman
12% single man
The married couple was favored overwhelmingly. (This result and all the others I will describe are statistically significant.)
(various combinations of hypothetical people were tested, with a hypothetical married couple being overwhelmingly preferred to almost all other hypothetical possibilities tested, e.g. single woman, single man, cohabiting couple, etc, read for specifics)
I think when you look at neighborhoods that when someone moves and others move in married couples are always preferred even by others living there. Singles often mean more noise and less peace. Its no different I suspect in apartments with people living there or landlords. its based o their finding of where to live the lifestyle they want from other not following making different choices.
I'm a single 62 year old renter. Do I belong in the same group as a single 20 year old?
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