Ban lifted on loans to unmarried couples in Virginia

[davidinalameda]

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=57501&ran=29352

State housing officials voted unanimously this morning to lift Virginia's ban on home loans to unmarried couples.

Members of the Board of Commissioners for the Virginia Housing Development Authority said the policy was an unnecessary burden on low-income elderly and disabled people, single parents and other non-traditional families seeking affordable homes.

The housing authority vote ends the "family rule," which required people applying jointly for a low-interest loan to be related by blood, marriage or adoption. The rule has been in force since the early 1980s except for a two-year suspension in the mid-90s.

[David__77]

1. Outrageous provision...

This is what the fascists want. At least thanks to the Supreme Court, their anti-gay laws are curbed a bit. But loans? Barring homeownership? How patently offensive.

[underpants]

3. Technically you can't sign a lease either

regardless if you are actually a couple or just roomates.

WElcome to the ways of the Oooooooooold Dominion.

[Heddi]

5. my husband once

(long before we met) was looking at an apartment for himself and his then-live-in-girlfriend.

He went one day to look at an apartment. Girlfriend was at work so he saw it himself.

Applied for the apartment, gave $$ for credit check, filled out application & lease.

On the lease he put his GF's name as well (she would be by later to sign it) and the landlord was like NO WAY---he didn't allow 2 non-married people to live together. Not even as roommates.

Apparently at the time, this practice was legal in South Carolina (early 1990's)

[demnan]

2. Wow!

Where were the Baptists that run this state when that happened?

[electricmonk]

4. Big surprise here

"Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore has sided with the Family Foundation in arguing that the rule should have been preserved."

Can't stand that puke.