preferences vs discrimination

Picking who you’ll share a home with is personal — and the law knows it. But there’s a real line between a preference and discrimination, and loro takes it seriously.

sharing your own home

If you actually live in the home, Dutch law (the AWGB) gives you some latitude: choosing a flatmate for a shared, private household is treated differently from a purely commercial let. You’re allowed to care about lifestyle fit — sleep, noise, whether you’ll get along.

renting out a room you don’t live in

If you don’t live there, that latitude falls away. You can’t select people on protected characteristics — things like race, religion, nationality, gender or sexual orientation. Fit is about habits and rhythms, never about who someone fundamentally is.

the rule of thumb

Preferences are about how you live (early riser, quiet home, tidy kitchen). Discrimination is about who someone is. loro is built around the first and has no room for the second.

The full, binding version — with the legal detail — is in our community guidelines.