More than likely, it’s perfectly legal for a galling line like this to appear in a Craigslist ad for an apartment in Seattle: “Amazon, Boeing, Sea-Tac Airport, Starbucks Corporate, and military employees get discounts and waived fees!” (Translation: Anyone who’s not working for one of these “preferred employers” is shit out of luck and will just have to pay full price at a time when full price for an apartment in Seattle is increasingly unaffordable for people who don’t work at Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks Corporate, and so on.)
In fact, that very line and others like it have appeared in recent rental ads in the Seattle area. Housing advocates say such “preferred employer” ads are discriminatory because they favor people who are more likely to be high-wage workers. But it turns out that offering these discounts is not illegal…
