Quick question to any and everyone. We have been told we can no longer call the cooking odors remaining in the apartment "cooking odors", as that may be considered a fair housing issue. If not "cooking odors" then what would you call the odor left behind from... well cooking?
Brent Williams
Wow, I feel like I am pretty in tune with new Fair Housing approaches, thanks to Anne Sadovsky and Doug Chasick, but I have never heard of this one!
Doug Chasick
Double wow! I respectfully suggest that the answer you were given doesn't smell right to me. There is nothing inherently, overtly, covertly or any other -ly wrong with calling cooking odors "cooking oders". The only possible way I can think of to make this a fair housing issue would be to attribute the "cooking odors" to be the result of the protected class that lived in the apartment and cooked the food that caused the odors. I hope this helps c;lear the air . . .
Beth Jordan
Thanks for the input. I agree completely. It's an old argument, that has been going on. Cooking odors are what they are regardless of what spice or food created the odor. Thanks again.
Anne Sadovsky
As if we don’t have enough FH issues…let’s make up with some more! I hope I didn’t cause this by saying in my classes “Smells have likely been an issue since the Cave Man era… ”Whatever you are cooking stinks and the smell is coming into my cave.” I use that when talking about cooking, smoking, and candles. YIKES.The point is that onions, garlic, curry, etc is NOT a fair housing issue. Residents have the right to prepare food and it would be absurd to try to control that. .As you know, smoking is still a hot issue. New Mexico has pushed for years for a complete smoking ban in apartments. Gov’t funded apartments doing the same. When I speak to affordable house groups I ask “How is enforcing that going for you?” They just laugh. I also say “If any of you, your maintenance teams, etc come up with a way to solve ‘odor’ issues, you will become immensely wealthy” End of rant…
Susan E Weston
I might argue a perspective from the other side. If I am cooking one of my native dishes that has an unusually pervasive odor and I am told my cooking odor is the problem, might I not connect the dots to "you are trying to sequester my national origin rights?". Why not just call it an odor, just like bleach or ammonia, and not try to connect it to source - we're the landlord. Its an odor, its causing watery eyes in neighbors, stop the odor, whatever the source. Thoughts?
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