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Debra Kamin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
493 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

If you're a country club and you happen to have a house for the groundskeeper to live in if he has to work late hours, that language is in the law to allow for those things.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

It is, of course, not meant so people can create whites-only communities, but they are convinced, based on consultations they say they've done with lawyers, and they also told me they spent a lot of time with ChatGPT,

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Wow.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And they are convinced that this line in the Fair Housing Act protects them based on the model they've created with the membership association.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Exactly.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And they decided that here is a place that ostensibly is a weakness in the law that we can manipulate if we structure ourselves this way.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So they created the membership association.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

They created the LLC.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And they say, we are not selling land.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

We are not real estate developers.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

We are offering shares in an LLC to our members.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And it just so happens that those shares come with three acres of land.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So if people are admitted into the membership association, their membership gives them shares in the LLC.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And the shares are around $6,600.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

In exchange for that $6,600 share, you get three acres of land where you can then build a house, raise your kids, do whatever you want if you're in the community.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Got it.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Well, they are still subject to provisions of the Fair Housing Act.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

They believe that they are not because they are not landlords.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

That's what they've really cast every aspect of this community on that belief.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Right.