I worry such a plan will face significant legal hurdles. As suggested the building would probably not fall into the exceptions to the federal fair housing act (is that right) for choosing roommates (it’s not a single family dwelling but a group of apartments in some sense).
But you EXACTLY want to choose who lives there based on political/religious beliefs (almost by definition it’s impossible to be a rationalist and a dogmatic unquestioning conservative christian). Also by aspects of family makeup in that you don’t want people living in this community to import a large extended family to live with them if that family doesn’t share the values/concerns of the other people living in the community.
Basically, I think the degree of control you want over who lives in the building may be incompatible with various non-discrimination laws. However, one could probably find 20 families that could jointly purchase the building as condos to avoid this problem.
But I don’t see any way around these problems in the long run. As the original group breaks up it will be hard to replace them without legally problematic screening.
If the descrimitation laws consider rationality political a way around might be to declare the whole community a religious community. Monastries have no problem picking their members via religion.
But you EXACTLY want to choose who lives there based on political/religious beliefs (almost by definition it’s impossible to be a rationalist and a dogmatic unquestioning conservative christian).
Our census doesn’t suggest that being a Christian is incompatible with being rationalist. This community holds Peter Thiel in high regard despite his Christian beliefs.
I worry such a plan will face significant legal hurdles. As suggested the building would probably not fall into the exceptions to the federal fair housing act (is that right) for choosing roommates (it’s not a single family dwelling but a group of apartments in some sense).
But you EXACTLY want to choose who lives there based on political/religious beliefs (almost by definition it’s impossible to be a rationalist and a dogmatic unquestioning conservative christian). Also by aspects of family makeup in that you don’t want people living in this community to import a large extended family to live with them if that family doesn’t share the values/concerns of the other people living in the community.
Basically, I think the degree of control you want over who lives in the building may be incompatible with various non-discrimination laws. However, one could probably find 20 families that could jointly purchase the building as condos to avoid this problem.
But I don’t see any way around these problems in the long run. As the original group breaks up it will be hard to replace them without legally problematic screening.
If the descrimitation laws consider rationality political a way around might be to declare the whole community a religious community. Monastries have no problem picking their members via religion.
Our census doesn’t suggest that being a Christian is incompatible with being rationalist. This community holds Peter Thiel in high regard despite his Christian beliefs.
Our political beliefs are also diverse.