{"id":707,"date":"2010-03-10T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=707"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:17","slug":"craigslist-seeks-to-prevent-discriminatory-housing-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2010\/03\/10\/craigslist-seeks-to-prevent-discriminatory-housing-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigslist seeks to prevent discriminatory housing ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Craigslist.org<\/a>&nbsp;now is seeking to prevent discriminatory housing ads (including roommate ads) on its website by posting the following message before one is allowed to fill out a classified housing advertisement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Stating a discriminatory preference in a housing post is illegal, is prohibited on craigslist, and can be expensive: \u00a0you can be fined more than $10,000 for each discriminatory ad, plus damages in court, plus loss of license if you are a professional. Avoid phrases which could be interpreted as discriminating by race\/color\/origin (e.g. &#8216;hispanic area&#8217;), religion (e.g. &#8216;christian home&#8217;), age \/ familial status (e.g. &#8216;no kids&#8217;), disability, sexual orientation, or source of income. The words you choose can cost you &#8211; get the facts and avoid being prosecuted under fair housing law.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/fair-housing-act\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fair Housing Act<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/sexual-orientation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sexual Orientation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craigslist.org&nbsp;now is seeking to prevent discriminatory housing ads (including roommate ads) on its website by posting the following message before one is allowed to fill out a classified housing advertisement: &#8220;Stating a discriminatory preference in a housing post is illegal, is prohibited on craigslist, and can be expensive: \u00a0you can be fined more than $10,000 for each discriminatory ad, plus damages in court, plus loss of license if you are a professional. 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The words you choose can cost you &#8211; get the facts and avoid being prosecuted under fair housing law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-fair-housing-act","category-sexual-orientation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}