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‘Peter Pan’ As Public Policy: Should Fifty-Five-Plus Age- Restricted Communities Continue To Be Exempt From Civil Rights Laws And Substantive Federal Regulation?, Mark D. Bauer
Mark D Bauer
Although millions of Americans live in 55-plus age-restricted housing, little research has been done to determine whether these communities benefit their residents, or the nation as a whole. This is particularly ironic because these communities exist in contravention to anti-discrimination laws by virtue of a specific exemption granted to real estate developers by an Act of Congress. Ordinarily age discrimination is prohibited by the Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Successful lobbying by special interest groups carved out an exemption for 55-plus housing.
The original exemption required developers to offer elders special services and …