They sky explodes in a flash of thunder and a thunderous boom. I sit in an apartment in Salt Lake City. I'm leaving at 4:30 tomorrow morning, and I'm sure I'll sleep the entire time on the plane.
It has been 800 miles since I left California. It feels like I've seen 800 apartments today alone. I was moments away from assuming the loan of a couple leaving a one bedroom apartment, just blocks away from my new job, but was then ruled out because I wasn't married.
I shouldn't be surprised, say Provo locals. Many apartment complexes are married couples or married students only. The couple who was ready for me to take over their contract seemed slightly miffed at the fact that I was rendered... unfit? too single? dangerously possibility for promiscuity amongst sex-having married people? Whatever the case I felt it somewhat unfair.
The federal fair housing act says that rentals cannot discriminate on tenants based on:a persons race, color, sex, national origin, disability, religion or familial status.
The sad part is, 18 states have taken it further and included protection of single people as well. Familial status, in the federal definition, protects people with children unless the community is a senior community.
Utah has no such definition. Perhaps they are scared of the homosexuals invading? I dunno. But it is nearly impossible to get competitively affordable one-bedroom housing and be a single male in Provo. Hasty conclusion after one day? Provo isn't that big.
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Well, that doesn't seem fair. What do they expect you to do, get married in a week? Good luck in finding something, and have fun at the show.
Posted by tyd | July 7, 2006 4:07 PM
Posted on July 7, 2006 16:07