Liberals are too stupid to understand that this means that only the best prospective tenants will be offered leases.
They are doing their best to outlaw any screening of tenants period. Orgs like LawNY.org state you should rent to ANYONE who fogs up a mirror. Anything else is “discrimination” ™ and you will be sued because of it.
Anecdotally, it took me 6 months and 2 weeks to find a cooperative, non-militant tenant for a 3 bdrm 1 bath, completely remodeled downstairs apt with washer/dryer hook up and offstreet parking at slightly below market price.
Only 2% of the applicants were able to produce a credit score of above 600, have 3X income to rent ratio, non smokers. I had well over 200 responses. Again, the leftist legal orgs want to ban the above mentioned screening criteria EVEN THOUGH HUD states that tenants shouldn’t be paying more than 30% of their gross income for their rent and utilities.
Everyone has animals these days, but when they start spewing “Emotional Support Animal” that is always a red flag.
This is in a rust belt town once bedroom community for Xerox. It is the county seat so very “RURBAN” (rural but with negative urban influences).
The majority (98% of tenants in this are) are low performing if not downright militantly litigious “housing is a human right” type that are just looking for a nice place to destroy and stop paying rent for.
The long term effect of these laws is hidden—folks who might have invested in rental real estate but instead decide to put their money somewhere else.
Run that for a decade and both the quality and quantity of rental housing in an area will be seriously degraded.