CAI-NJ Nov.2017

24 / 72

24 N O V E M B E R , 2 0 1 7
The Service You Deserve
Taylor Management Company has been
managing community associations for
decades. We have been recognized
by the Community Associations Institute (CAI) as an Accredited Association Management
Company (AAMC) and by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) as an Accredited
Management Organization (AMO). These designations are accorded for the highest level
of ethics and professional management in the industry.
be a co-op’s building super who
provides prompt response times to
women residents who put up with
his sexual advances while ignoring
those women who rebuff them.
This building super’s conduct could
be unlawful harassment against
all of these women, even those
who put up with the conduct, as
a victim’s submission to harassment
does not negate the unlawful con-
duct.
• Hostile Environment Harassment:
Hostile environment harassment is
unwelcome conduct because of
that person’s protected class that
is sufficiently severe or pervasive
as to interfere with the person’s
use or enjoyment of housing. An
example of hostile environment
harassment could be the situation
described in the introduction: a res-
ident who consistently taunts and
makes derogatory statements to
another resident based on his reli-
gion and national origin. Hostile
environment harassment can come
in many different forms: epithets,
distributing fliers, displaying sym-
bols, gestures, physical abuse, etc.
Prompt Corrective Action
Required:
Community associations can be
directly liable or vicariously liable for
harassment that constitutes discrimina-
tory housing practices. One might
expect that an association can be
liable for the harassment perpetrat-
ed by its board members, managers,
maintenance workers, and other repre-
DISCRIMINATION...
from page 22.
CONT I NU E S ON PAGE 26