Millmont Exhibit Update, Housing Discrimination Recap
Will you look at this lovely local business with the exceptionally attractive art? Updated for spring, my exhibit of oils continues at Millmont Grille.
Also, cVillain and Cville News covered this housing discrimination business. My favorite parts so far: (1) one commenter trying to intimidate me first because I have no proof and then because I have too much, and (2) UVA denying responsibility for helping this individual break federal law. (”It’s on our servers, but it’s not our problem!”)
Here are the numbers to call to remind people housing discrimination is illegal and wrong, and the community requires that the crime not be enabled by our institutions: the medical school’s Housestaff Office (Graduate Medical Education, 434-924-2047 — tell them to take this-here ad down), the law school (Office of Student Affairs, 434-924-3737 — tell them it’s their server, so it’s their problem), and the business school (Office of the Dean, 924-7481 — ask them why they aren’t invested in equal opportunity housing). Discriminatrix: Virginia McFadden, vamcfadden@earthlink.net, 434-293-2848.
It’s nice that this one case was so easy to prove, and it would be wonderful if we could use it to bring about a change in how UVA responds to the illegal housing discrimination it is enabling on these websites. If the owner won’t show a property to the whole town, you must take their ad down. (Otherwise, the law is unenforceable for private owners and may as well not exist.)