TheStridentConservative: Do you remember back in April when the Obama administration informed landlords across America that the refusal to rent to ex-felons who happen to be a minority–specifically blacks and Hispanics–could result in federal charges of racial discrimination?
While the federal Fair Housing Act doesn’t mention criminals as a protected class, the guidelines released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development said that citing the criminal record of a potential renter as cause to deny rent is oftentimes a form of racial discrimination, as seen in this excerpt:
The Fair Housing Act prohibits both intentional housing discrimination and housing practices that have an unjustified discriminatory effect because of race, national origin, or other protected characteristics.
Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system, criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing are likely disproportionately to burden African-Americans and Hispanics.
While the act does not prohibit housing providers from appropriately considering criminal history information when making housing decisions, arbitrary and over-broad criminal history-related bans are likely to lack a legally sufficient justification.
Translation? You can screen potential renters for a criminal history, and you can deny their application if they have one, unless they are black or Hispanic. Denying those applicants will likely result in a federal lawsuit.
Maybe the next administration will have a DOJ that understands the meaning of illegal.
We all know that will not include anyone associated with the Clintonistia Cartel.
The roads leading out of DC are gonna be clogged worse than Thanksgiving.
Everybody is going to be so happy they may have a new holiday named.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.
Lazlo had to do the landlord thing.
If I don’t like your face, you will not live here. Lawsuits be damned.
If a Curry eater (Indians, and the like) wants to rent I jack up the security and cleaning deposit way up to cover the costs of getting the smell out of the walls and air ducts
I have dealt with non payers who squat then proceed to destroy the place. I used to hide a clause in the rental agreement that stated the tenant admitted their presence was trespassing if the rent was over a month late. Then the cops could come and I could have them carted off.
I now use a property manager, and sleep the sleep of the just.
Income redistribution. The lawyers, who’ll be minority and the illegal will be given some of the landlords cash.
Their very presence violates all sorts of acts including both my temper and patience!
You knou, I really don’t give a rat’s ass about whether or not DaShawn the drug dealer can find rental housing. His has amply proven by his actions that he’s a total loserino, and the tab for his housing will undoubtedly be picked up by all the Santa Claus bureaucrats at Section 8. He can lay his little pea-brained head down in a pigsty for all I care.
MY worry is people who can’t BUY the housing of their their choice with THEIR money.
Between November 2005 and October 2007, I went into contract to purchase three (3) co-operative apartments in the Fleetwood neighborhood of Mount Vernon, New York. The apartments were all one-bedroom units, perfect for a single person. They were all located in a pedestrian-friendly middle-class neighborhood that I thought would suit me just fine. All three units were affordable ($130,000-$140,000).
The Boards of Directors of the housing corporations that owned the buildings thought otherwise, however. Purchases in cooperative apartment buildings are subject to Board approval.
Well, the petty, power-mad dictators of the Boards in all three buildings rejected my applications. This despite the fact that I was making a larger down payment than was required (30% vs. 20%), had a bullet-proof civil service job for which I could offer a schedule of salary increases through 2011, and am a quiet, serious person of good moral character. I am also a former Board President of my prop cooperative housing corporation, which meant I was bringing a wealth of experience that could be well used in a new setting.
Most irkingly, with each rejection, I lost about $1,000 in various non-refundable fees.
It amazes me how wveryone’s knickers get in a twist over the rights of evil, unproductive cyphers, while the rights of good, productive people get trampled daily.
“prop cooperative = prior cooperative.”
Fur, have you been fooling around with the spell checker?
So does the government reimburse you for damages when it turns out you were right and they destroy your property?
Ahhhahahahahahahahaha!