On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:20:26 EDT, wrote:

As another example, it used to be legal to put all sorts of
discriminatory restrictions in CC&Rs as to who you could sell the
property to - race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Civil rights and equal
housing laws made these illegal.

Actually a SCOTUS case called _Shelly v Kraemer_ broke that
restriction many years before The Congress got around to legislation.
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net

On Jul 23, 3:03 am, Phil Kane wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:20:26 EDT, wrote:
As another example, it used to be legal to put all sorts of
discriminatory restrictions in CC&Rs as to who you could sell the
property to - race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Civil rights and equal
housing laws made these illegal.

Actually a SCOTUS case called _Shelly v Kraemer_ broke that
restriction many years before The Congress got around to legislation.

This is why I include that "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer so often.

Thanks for the correction, Phil.

I guess the reason for the equal housing and other laws was to outlaw
other forms of discrimination, such as the realtor who wouldn't show a
house to the "wrong" people, lenders who had different lending rules
depending on ethnicity/race/gender/religion, etc.

73 de Jim, N2EY