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290-298 Hemlock Street | 6 fl | U/C

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#13

11-24-2021, 05:42 AM

(11-20-2021, 09:57 AM)jwilliamson Wrote: OHRC explicitly says seniors only communities are legal.

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-discrimi...ommodation

Under limited conditions:

"There is no defence, however, that will permit “adult lifestyle” housing that results in the exclusion of children or persons under a certain age."

Here's the code: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h19#BK17

Requiring specifically 65+ is OK under s15, but you could not say 60+.

s14 allows relieving hardship or economic disadvantage. So you still can't say "50+" under that, unless you tied it to some reason that 50+ were disadvantaged.

s18 allows some orgs which serve older persons to provide housing to that group of older persons. That doesn't sound like a general carve-out.

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