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Retirement Communities: The Nature And Enforceability Of Residential Segregation By Age, Mary Doyle
Retirement Communities: The Nature And Enforceability Of Residential Segregation By Age, Mary Doyle
Michigan Law Review
Although age segregation in retirement communities can be established in a variety of ways, the Article focuses primarily on age-restrictive zoning ordinances, the method most directly involving governmental action. The Article first considers those persons adversely affected by age-restrictive retirement communities and suggests that potential plaintiffs may be divided into three classes-neighboring property owners whose land values are affected by the establishment of a retirement community, those excluded from such a community solely by virtue of ·their age, and those excluded or potentially excluded because of the age of persons with whom they choose to live. Next, the constitutional arguments …