Posted on 04/04/2016 7:24:14 PM PDT by massmike
The Obama administration released a warning Monday telling the nations landlords that it may be discriminatory for them to refuse to rent to those with criminal records.
The Fair Housing Act doesnt include criminals as a protected class, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says refusing to rent based on a criminal record is a form of racial discrimination, due to racial imbalances in the U.S. justice system.
For instance, while blacks are about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they are about 36 percent of the prison population. Hispanics are also overrepresented behind bars, though to a much smaller degree.
HUD says that landlords may be allowed to bar those with criminal records from living in a facility, but they will have to prove that such a policy is necessary for protecting the safety of other tenants, and designed to avoid illegal discrimination. The new guidance recommends that landlords consider factors such as the severity of the criminal history and how long ago it occurred.
The new guidance isnt the first move by the Obama administration to break down perceived racial barriers in the housing market. HUD launched an effort in 2015 to encourage cities to use Section 8 and other levels to create racially-integrated neighborhoods. The effort came in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that policies which result in unintentional housing discrimination may be targeted in lawsuits.
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Yep out of control gangstamint..obamma mamba jamka lenin khomeini..schizoid potus of bs
Nah they would clear the prison so she wasn’t uncomfortable.
POS muslim is a criminal...always about him...we’ll see if who rents to criminal...in comparison to a person without a record they will always lose...it is like the ability to pay when making decisions on who to rent to!!
... just making it up as they go along ... (you expect this kind of crap from the courts, but this is a reach for an administrative ruling)
Landlords should obtain a Type 03 FFL (C&R) so they can say, “ Sorry, this building address is used as a firearm business. No felons within 500 ft. PROBLEM with. That HuD? Go talk to BATF.”
The government will buy those properties and become the landlord. You can thank the man from Canada after the Congress passes it, the President signss the bill, and the Supreme Court approves it 7-2.
Just hang on, he’ll be gone in January!
Did you think that a landlord owns his property? Better get over that notion. Under the neocommunists you don’t really own your property. You just think you do. They control what you do on your property. They can come and take it any time. But of course you get to keep the tax payments, mortgage, insurance, liability, and lawnmowing.
“Obama Admin Tells Landlords They Cant Refuse To House Criminals”
Tenants, criminals, same difference!
Well maybe that’s a little too vehement...but in my clan, landlords of residential tenants are considered in the same league as people who keep wild animals for house pets. One day that tiger will eat you alive.
Like the wag said about marriage, why bother? just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
Best way to screen tenants? Bring them home to your house for a month. With no security and no security cameras.
Landlords compete with government housing, like they have in Russia.
We're being forced into noncompliance on so many levels these days it's hard to keep up.
I believe there are already laws in some states, whereby a property can be seized by the government if a tenant is dealing (even using) illegal drugs.
In which case, rock, meet hard place.
Neither am I, but it'd be totally legal for the judge to decide you're full of it, and find for the plaintiff, and lay a few extra thumbscrews on you for good measure.
As my dad often says, "You even think about renting to anyone, I'll drag you over to landlord-tenant court and make you sit there all day." (And it has happened. I recommend it.)
Did the president of the United States just say that minorities commit most of the crime so it may be discriminatory to rent to them?
Damn minorities just cant catcha f-ing break from the white man.
I sure am glad Barack -”The Magic Negro” keeps us ahead of these kinds of shenanigans!
This is part of a wider problem where federal agencies just make up rules on their own which are then relentlessly enforced—IRS, BLM, HHS, etc. The Little Sisters of the Poor would not be facing crushing fines except for rules made up by Kathleen Sebelius, or if the courts still believed in the Eighth Amendment.
Yeah. Most of the people around her end up dead anyway.
Criminal behavior is closely linked to being raised by a single mother.
Whites have about a 25% illegitimacy rate.
Blacks have about a 75% illegitimacy rate.
Three times as many kids raised outside stable married families, three times as many end up criminal.
That’s a culture issue, not racial one, though for blacks, it is THEIR majority culture.
what???????
there is NO BASIS IN LAW....
landlords should do what they wish with criminal scum.....
kick em out if they dont have a lease...
refuse a lease after doing a background check
the made up illogic is offset by property rights....
sorry libtards
the “imbalance “in the incarceration rate
reflects the HARD COLD FACTS.......
However, there are people who make mistakes early on and manage to rebuild their lives. Under the current rules for many jobs and rental agencies, these people would forever be barred from gaining certain employment or finding a decent place to live for their families. I’m all for keeping felons out for the first five years after their incarceration. After that, however, people shouldn’t be penalized for the rest of their lives.
Convictions and penalties are as much about the money available for legal defense as they are about the crimes committed. How many Kennedy’s would have ended up as felons without the family piggybank? Jimmy Carter’s grandson went through a period of profound trouble, got out of it all, and ended up even having a private court session! (He died very recently, would probably have been better off serving time for a while.) George Bush the second was a well known cocaine user in his early years, and Obama freely admits using illegal drugs. When you consider how many of the felonies committed in this country are drug related, it’s easy to see that the judicial system isn’t just, whether you are black or white. It’s all about the money, like everything else.
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