{"id":709,"date":"2010-02-22T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=709"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:17","slug":"co-ops-accused-of-racial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2010\/02\/22\/co-ops-accused-of-racial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-ops accused of racial bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Bronx communities organized as co-ops require references from three co-op members in order to buy units. After using testers, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairhousingjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Housing Justice Center\u00a0<\/a>has filed a lawsuit arguing that this requirement has a discriminatory effect when existing co-op members are overwhelmingly white and when the requirement was not consistently applied.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/20\/nyregion\/20metjournal.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=todayspaper\">Read article<\/a>.<\/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\/co-ops\/\" rel=\"tag\">Co-Ops<\/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\/restraints-on-alienation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Restraints on Alienation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Bronx communities organized as co-ops require references from three co-op members in order to buy units. After using testers, the\u00a0Fair Housing Justice Center\u00a0has filed a lawsuit arguing that this requirement has a discriminatory effect when existing co-op members are overwhelmingly white and when the requirement was not consistently applied.\u00a0Read article.<\/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":[39,71,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-co-ops","category-fair-housing-act","category-restraints-on-alienation"],"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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}