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I see their point (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I vaguely recall reading that such child fees would likely be illegal (in the US)? I think it might also be illegal to exclude families with children from being eligible to rent a given location. Don't quote me on either, though, because I don't have sources on hand.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    In Brazil is illegal for landlords or apartment buildings to charge or prohibit pets on their units. They are some laws around, like it should be as big as you can charge it on your arms, can't use the common areas unless designated pet areas and can't be loud at night.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It's provincial here in Canada but I vaguely remember some building having a no child rule and then losing a court case when the strata tried to evict folks who ended up having kids.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I would love to live in that utopia. No children allowed in an entire suburb would be heaven.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Do people being outside really cause you that much of an issue? My neighborhood has tons of kids. They're just there existing. The closest thing to being bothered is just making sure I don't back in to anyone if they're playing. Which isn't that hard, nor does it add any issues to my day since you know I look behind me when I back up.

    If you had said apartment complex or condominium I'd get it, but like in a suburb everyone has their own detached home.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I don't mind all kids, but it's highly dependent on the children and the parents involved, and especially in anything aside from single family homes, you can't really tell what you're going to get. If it were an option, I would pay extra for an apartment in a child free building just to completely avoid the possibility of having my peace and quiet at home ruined because the building gets new tenants who let their kids run wild and make insane noise at all hours. Kids can be incredibly disruptive if they have inconsiderate parents who never tell them to behave when they act out, of which there are far too many.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    In the US, many mobile home communities require tenants be over the age of 55.

    I’ve seen weird rules too, like 50% of the household must be over 55. So like if your spouse is younger but you are older than that is okay. This pretty effectively does a good job of restricting children just based on math and family dynamic without explicitly stating “no kids”.

    One of my parents used to live in such a community. It was quiet as hell at night.

    So restrictions like that are clearly legal and not considered ageism. (I might have considered living in that same community if I were old enough.) But apparently restricting children would be illegal?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's not legal to charge pet fees if it's for a service animal so it's probably related to that in some.

    For services animals they cannot even enforce size or breed restrictions. I have in laws that used this to get a pit bull for their child with Down Syndrome. It wasn't a fee dodge, the apartment had a blanket no pet policy.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    It's also illegal here in the UK. Additionally it's now also illegal to refuse to let to someone who has a pet on the basis of that pet*, however, if two parties applied for the same property but only one had a pet, then how could anyone possibly be able to prove why the party with a cat wasn't accepted...

    _ *if it's not currently law, it's on its way through to being so.

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