Thread by @DEI4WhiteGuys

🧵 There’s a way for you to build a community that will never be changed through immigration, refugee resettlement, section 8 vouchers, low income or public housing, or the Civil Rights / Fair Housing Act

And it’s specifically written into the Act itself:

🧵 The FHA bans discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or familial status which covers most housing transactions - selling, renting, financing, and advertising, whether by private individuals, companies, or public entities

But the FHA has exemptions written into the law

🧵 Section 3607 outlines religious organization or private club exemptions to the FHA

We’ll circle back to the religious exemptions later, but regarding private clubs:

“Nor shall anything in this subchapter prohibit a private club not in fact open to the public, which as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodgings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting the rental or occupancy of such lodgings to its members or from giving preference to its members.”

🧵 A private club, or a Private Membership Association (PMA), is a private organization formed by a group of individuals who come together for a shared purpose, interest, or activity, operating outside the public domain. It’s rooted in the constitutional right to freely associate and enter into private contracts, allowing members to conduct business, provide services, or pursue goals in a way that’s generally free from government oversight, as long as it doesn’t pose a clear and immediate danger to the public. It’s a private club, exclusive to members who agree to its rules, offering a space to operate with more autonomy than a typical public business.

🧵 Structurally, a PMA is pretty straightforward. It’s typically an unincorporated association, meaning it doesn’t have to register as a formal corporation. It’s built on a private contract between members, outlining the purpose, membership terms, and operational guidelines. You’ve got a founder or group of founders who set it up, and members join by agreeing to the terms, usually signing a membership agreement. There’s no rigid hierarchy required; it can be as simple as a founder and members, or it can have a board or officers if the group wants more structure. The key is that it’s self-governed, with rules decided internally rather than dictated by outside authorities.

🧵 Creating one is relatively simple but requires intentional steps. First, you define the PMA’s purpose. Then, you draft founding documents, like a mission statement and membership agreement, spelling out what the PMA does, who can join, and what the rules are. You might want to consult someone experienced in this area to make sure the language holds up legally, but there’s no universal template; it’s tailored to your needs. Once that’s done, you sign the agreement with your initial members, and you’re off and running. No need to file with the state or federal government; its private nature means it doesn’t require registration with any government entity.

🧵 Private Membership Associations are exempt from the FHA, but only if they are “truly private”.

What does this mean?

A PMA needs to have clear, consistent criteria for membership, and is targeted and advertised to a specific group or individuals (not advertised on a billboard). The more exclusive and deliberate the process, the stronger the "private" claim.

If the PMA offers housing or benefits only to its members and doesn’t advertise or sell to outsiders, it stays in the private lane. For example, a PMA that rents cabins to members for retreats is fine, but if it lists those cabins on Airbnb or markets them broadly, it’s crossing into public territory, and the FHA could kick in.

🧵 So you created a PMA with your friends or people of like mind, now what?

The PMA needs land for its members to enjoy. So members of the PMA create a Limited Liability Company (LLC), only PMA members can own shares in the LLC, the LLC buys acres of land to develop for its members, and members can own whatever share of the LLC that equates to the lot/house they want.

🧵 Let’s make it easy. 10 members of a 10,000 member nationwide PMA form an LLC, buy 100 acres of land, and subdivide it into ten 10 acre lots. Each member would own 10% equity stake in the LLC. If you ever want to sell your 10% shares of the LLC (your lot/house), you can sell it to any one of the 10,000 members of the PMA or the LLC can buy you out.

🧵 The PMA/LLC model ensures that you are not only complying with the Fair Housing Act, but that the community remains intact.

For an example of the PMA/LLC model based on shared values and ancestry, check out what @Aarvoll_ has done with @RTTL_Official

returntotheland.org

🧵 Furthermore, to ensure that your PMA/LLC isn’t just in compliance with the FHA but that the FHA itself is in compliance with the Constitution and subject to strict scrutiny judicial review, you can add an extra layer of protection to your PMA/LLC by including a religious angle.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act reestablished the strict scrutiny standard for evaluating laws that substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion.

🧵 So let’s say you created a PMA whose purpose and mission statement was to preserve the culture and ancestral heritage of White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs), to worship according to your beliefs, to support and promote the creation of WASP families and the raising of healthy and unvaccinated WASP children, to give WASPs a safe place to live and grow in their faith and community, and you sought out groups, churches, and individuals to join.

🧵 Members of this WASP PMA form an LLC to buy a large tract of land to build a church and houses for its members.

Other WASP PMA members from around the country also form their own LLCs, buy land, and build churches and houses.

If anyone ever had to sell their shares of the LLC (their house), it can be advertised and sold to any WASP PMA member nationwide, or back to the LLC.

🧵 It’s really that “easy”

Now, circling back to the religious organization exemption of Section 3607 of the FHA. This is totally separate from the private club exemption. It states:

“Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit a religious organization, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in such religion is restricted on account of race, color, or national origin.”

🧵 In laymen’s, it’s saying any religious organization can discriminate based on religion, but not race, when it comes to housing.

However, if your religion is also racial, this section could fail the strict scrutiny judicial review test set forth by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and be ruled unconstitutional.

No situation has ever presented itself to be the test case, so this is purely academic 🤓

🧵 The purpose of this thread is to show you how it can be done and how it is being done, by complying with the very law that has decimated so many communities.

The time for Flight is over. We’re now entering the era of Fortressing.