so only non-whites are felons???
Posted on 10/17/2016 12:07:30 PM PDT by PROCON
A recent court filing indicates that the Washington State Attorney General’s Office believes that denying a prospective tenant with a felony conviction is racially discriminatory.
A member of the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Unit served a Consent Decree on Dobler Management Company, a property management firm in Tacoma, after conducting a simulated test on whether the landlord was illegally discriminating against potential tenants.
According to the briefing sent to KTTH’s Todd Herman, in May, the state asked a tester to follow up on a rental property advertisement on Craigslist, which said the apartment complex would automatically deny renters with a felony record. The state’s tester confirmed that the unit was still available and asked if he could apply for the unit despite having a felony conviction. The leasing consultant responded via email that a “felony would be an automatic denial.”
“In denying the tester, the leasing consultant did not consider when the conviction occurred, what the underlying conduct entailed or what the tester had done since the conviction,” the state wrote in a consent decree filed in Pierce County Superior Court.
The state explains that there is a discriminatory link between criminal history and restriction of housing:
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
Felon is a race? So felon Martha Stewart is her own race? Wow.
Felons are not a race.
It isnt racist if you reject felons of all races.
You might be able to claim they are criminalists. Which is just God-given common sense in action.
Let the folks who say its racist rent the felons a room in their own house.
Pretty damning, I would say.
KKK morphed into Circle D.
Then they can go live in the AG’s house or is he racist?
“I ANAL”? Just kidding.
But we see the problem.
If a small businessman whose business involved vulnerable segments of the population, or whose employees had a lot of public safety responsibility, wouldn’t he be expected to do background checks and properly vet his employees? We’re talking about pilots, subway conductors, maybe babysitters.
I understand, however, that Holder et al, using “disparate outcomes” want non-whites (primarily blacks) to be absolved of any prior criminality, to the detriment of the population at large. Similar reasoning applies to homosexual blood donations—”It’s screened, what are you complaining about?”—even though the screens are late in time (did you catch something last month) and scope (new virii).
In 2016 voting republican is called racist by liberals.
Doesnt matter,if they dont find it they will just fabricate it.
Look at the bigger picture here. What the government is trying to do is dissuade private citizens from being landlords, so that ultimately the government takes over housing.
I think it is pretty clear what felons are railroaded and which are hardened career criminals. It involves a case by case basis examination, but it would not be hard to discover someone who got screwed by the system and someone who was violent and/or a revolving door prisoner.
Maybe criminophobes is better than criminalists.
So is he saying that felons = blacks? Now that's racist!
I wonder if this includes sex offenders?
“Legal question: Would the landlord incur liability if he rents to a known felon who then perpetrates crimes on the other residents? Doesn’t he have a duty to somehow protect them, or at least warn them?
If he does have this liability, he’s in a Catch-22 situation where the government forces him to perform a prosecutable act, and then hangs him out to dry.
In product law, wouldn’t this be a known, hidden defect? In landlord-tenant law, wouldn’t this be analogous to allowing the building to have an unmitigated, known, unsafe situation?”
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I have a better one....
what if the felon signs a years lease yet violates his parole and has to go back to the big house...does the landlord have the right to sue for broken lease and back rent?
what if the felon signs a years lease yet violates his parole and has to go back to the big house...
Our pin-headed Atty General Bob Ferguson has no idea what a can-of-worms he's opened.
His vain attempt at political correctness will only make things worse for all parties involved.
so only non-whites are felons???
In its place very nice freestanding duplexs were built. People who were displaced by the demolition, were promised priority for the new homes.
"But after nine months of mailings inviting former residents to apply, the authority has identified only 12 applicants entitled to the priority. And of the 31 households that have qualified for mortgages, two are former residents of the Stowe Village housing project.
The authority is reviewing the files of another 40 applicants to determine if they are also entitled to the resident priority. Until all of the displaced residents interested in returning completed the application process; the authority didn't want to give final go-ahead to anyone else -- even those whose mortgages have been approved.
The screening process itself is time-consuming. The authority is checking criminal history, credit ratings and housekeeping habits, counseling applicants on the responsibilities of homeownership and helping them apply for mortgages.
So, many of the applicants, could not pass the standards set-up, b/c no one living in the new units, could have felony convictions.
This is Hartford city housing, paid in part, by you and me. In order to reduce crime, and keep the homes reasonably nice, they discriminated against their own.
Common sense in America. Gone.
In reply to your statement:
“I think it is pretty clear what felons are railroaded and which are hardened career criminals. It involves a case by case basis examination, but it would not be hard to discover someone who got screwed by the system and someone who was violent and/or a revolving door prisoner.”
What planet are you living on? A conviction is a conviction. The criminal record does not contain a flowery paragraph stating whether or not the person deserves to be a felon. Bottom line is whether you have money for a good lawyer, or not, in most cases.
Anyone with a concealed carry license needs to be particularly careful, especially if they are a minority.
Is it racist for landlords to deny rent to White felons?
Context. A landlord can figure out whether a felon is a real problem or someone that got screwed. Meeting with them, plus background check will indicate enough to make a good decision.
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