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Re:Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation bas... by btilly on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:55PM (#14771797)
You'll find a good summary of the relevant rules at https://www.craigslist.org/about/FHA.

If it was a roommate request, then it is viewed differently. If the property was at most 3 units and the landlord lives there, then the landlord cannot advertise that they will discriminate on gender but the landlord is allowed to. (Who said that the laws had to make sense?)

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Re:Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation bas... by TallGuyShort on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:13PM (#14771960)
Yeah if I'm going to get declined after going to the trouble of applying, or if I'm going to enter into a housing agreement with someone who hates me, I'd rather their advertisement be smothered in discriminatory epithets. Seriously.
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Re:Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation bas... by btilly on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:44PM (#14772608)
But if you're just browsing past the ad, do you need reminding of how many discriminatory slimeballs there are out there?

I don't like the mentality that leads to this kind of confused legal situation. But if I squint sideways and pretend that I don't have a brain, I can kinda see how someone could have thought this a good idea.

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