Posted on 04/04/2016 7:24:14 PM PDT by massmike
The Obama administration released a warning Monday telling the nation’s landlords that it may be discriminatory for them to refuse to rent to those with criminal records.
The Fair Housing Act doesn’t 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 isn’t 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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Great example; they can’t reconcile government-coerced erasure of bad history (with credit or crime) with the litigious atmosphere in this country...
Actually, it is discrimination to let criminals reside in HUD housing. There is tremendous disparity in racial makeup of public housing vs. market rate housing in most places. So dumping the criminals in with civilized black residents is discrimination against blacks.
You are probably “smart” enough to rat yourself out to the judge. LOL
My sentiments too.
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