From 2016. I understand from friends that things have changed due to laws.
I don't see how laws can prevent discrimination, to be honest. LLs can refuse to rent to anyone for arbitrary reasons without being required to divulge the true reason.
Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you
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#12From 2016. I understand from friends that things have changed due to laws.
Having watched the struggles of an Indian friend who wanted to live outside an "Indian ghetto" (their words) this very year, I can assure you they have not.
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#13This is among the strangest advertisements I've read. "Are you strongly against discrimination? Then rent from us!"
Virtue signalling as a form of self-promotion. I feel this makes them look more shady but i don't know if their conversion numbers reflect that.
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#14From 2016. I understand from friends that things have changed due to laws.
Nope. It was fairly common to see "No Indians, No PRC" in advertisements even in 2020.
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#15From 2016. I understand from friends that things have changed due to laws.
Nope. Changed houses a few months ago. Nothing's changed.
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#16From 2016. I understand from friends that things have changed due to laws.
I don't see how laws can prevent discrimination, to be honest. LLs can refuse to rent to anyone for arbitrary reasons without being required to divulge the true reason.
It being illegal means you can drag the landlord to court and ask them to explain their thinking to the court. You can say, look, here's the income and rental histories and credit scores for your tenants in separate apartments, here's documentation saying we are above that, so what's the reason for the rejection. And, lying under oath is its own crime.
This is like saying "murder shouldn't be illegal because everyone is just going to bury the body". It being illegal is how the investigation starts.
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#17This is among the strangest advertisements I've read. "Are you strongly against discrimination? Then rent from us!"
Virtue signalling as a form of self-promotion. I feel this makes them look more shady but i don't know if their conversion numbers reflect that.
It does not to me. It is similar to pet friendly, unmarried couple friendly, foreigner friendly, etc tag. It wastes less time of everyone while law enforcement cracks down on discrimination of protected classes.
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#18This is among the strangest advertisements I've read. "Are you strongly against discrimination? Then rent from us!"
Especially since advertising that way in my hometown in Michigan would have gotten their business firebombed.
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#19Was surprised to see “Singapore”, expected “Bay Area.” When I left my last rental after buying a house, my elderly white landlord asked me to help him put the property on Craigslist. When I did so and mentioned the Cupertino school district, he asked me to remove that part because “it would attract too many Indian families with kids” to avoid the curry smell. He had no issue with other Asian ethnicities, the previous…
Why? Globally speaking, the US is one of the least racist countries.
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#20This is one of the few instances that I've seen open discrimination agains white western people in Japan. In my journey for renting a place, after a couple of visits and getting a "no because he's a gaikokujin (foreigner)" I asked the agent to disclose it firstly.
He did, but tactfully: he is a foreigner who is learning Japanese and came to the university in Japan and is hired by traditional company X and blabla. Still somewhere like 25-50% straight up rejections, but at least those were 1-minute waste instead of 30-60 min waste of time. And I was looking in the "high market in Tokyo", which I guess is probably the least discriminatory in the whole Japan. I also cannot imagine what non-western foreigner suffer (who are normally discriminated against a lot more).