Firm linked to N.Y. pol accused in rental bias

Holiday for her and her 11-yearold daughter because it was affordable.

But an employee told Smith that she could only stay a maximum of three consecutive weeks because of the age of her child. Holiday’s policy also required her to pay at a weekly rate that was higher than a monthly rate.

Smith, 63, told the Daily News last week that she was so infuriated that she filed a complaint with the Virginia Fair Housing Board.

“I can’t tell you how it felt scrimping and scraping, trying to make a home for my daughter and then told I couldn’t live there,” Smith said. “It was the worse thing ever.” At the time, Fair Housing Board investigators grilled Upton and Bosher — who was the president of Holiday and the vice president of Sea Bay — about the policy.

They told investigators at the time that Upton enacted the policy because of previous bad experiences with school-age children being left unattended. He said that babies and toddlers were welcome.

The investigators interview Maloney.

The Upper East Side Democrat — who is up for reelection in the fall — inherited a less than 25% stake in Sea Bay and sold it a few years ago, her campaign said.

Maloney didn’t own any part of Holiday and had no role in the company’s policies, the campaign said.

“Throughout her career in public service, Carolyn Maloney has been an effective proponent for, and defender of, affordable housing, rent regulation and tenant protection,” the campaign said.

“She was not informed about this matter until after the fact and was glad it was quickly resolved.”

The campaign said Maloney — one of Congress’ wealthiest members — has been in the process of divesting many of the assets she inherited from her father.

The Fair Housing Board found in December 2007 that Holiday and Sea Bay had discriminated did not against Smith’s daughter, who as a child was part of a protected class.

Based on the board’s recommendation, the Virginia attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit on behalf of Smith against Holiday and Sea Bay in 2008. The case was settled shortly after it was filed.

Smith, who at the time worked in real estate, said she contacted the Fair Housing Board partly out of desperation. She needed to move and Holiday was the only campground that was affordable.

“I was living in a camper with my daughter and had nowhere to go due to a financial situation,” she said.

The mom couldn’t talk about the settlement but said she and her daughter were allowed to stay at the campground. They remained there on and off for three years.

She still thinks should have known was discriminatory.

“They should have had the knowledge that they were doing something wrong,” she said. Holiday its policy