[bgill]

Libs forcing landlords to rent to any Joe Blow. What could possibly go wrong?

[ThunderSleeps]

Will these landlords have any liability for bringing known criminals into the same domicile as innocent victims? Oh, I guess not, since they are now forbidden from knowing.

So now, in Seattle, for all you know the new next-door neighbor is a murderer, rapist, career B&E guy, pedophile... So yeah, go ahead, make some cookies and you and your daughter go knock on his door to welcome him to the building.

[ThunderSleeps]

“We’re all safer if people are housed,” Council member Lisa Herbold, the bill’s chief sponsor, told MarketWatch. “You’re reducing the likelihood of recidivism. That goes for violent crimes as well.”

I'd like to know exactly what study she is basing this claim on. This sounds like simply feel-good tripe being spouted by a libtard with absolutely no basis in fact. Let's see the numbers, lying POS.

[DCBryan1]

All a landowner has to do is get an FFL....felons can't get within 100 feet of the property. But then you get this:

[9YearLurker]

Really, many of these men won’t likely be fully rehabilitated unless they can find a good woman to marry.

So I guess it should be illegal for women to reject an offer for a date or living together or marriage due to felon status.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

So....you’re supposed to follow a law that makes you ignore people that don’t follow the law?

[bert]

The city can not enforce such a law.

If you can’t show you are not a criminal, go somewhere else to live.

If your are a criminal, your rent goes up time ten.

[tbw2]

Landlords will set credit score and deposit requirements high enough to screen out 95% of the “undesirables”.

Thomas Sowell’s “Discrimination and Discrepancies” book busts the liberal myths behind this law.

Companies that do criminal background checks hire MORE blacks instead of less, because they can vet and exclude the criminals. Ban background checks, and they simply hire fewer lower class people and fewer ethnic minorities.

[dennisw]

Maximum effed ...... for any nice and reasonable landlord, he is screwed.