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Posted: 4/5/2016 5:03:45 PM EDT
Obama Admin Tells Landlords They Can’t Refuse To House Criminals
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. Landlords who violate the Fair Housing Act can be hit with civil fines amounting to thousands or millions of dollars, depending on the severity and the duration of the alleged violation. The new guideline includes one major exception that will benefit landlords: It is never illegal, HUD says, for landlords to block renting to those convicted of manufacturing or distributing illegal drugs. HUD’s newly-released guidelines http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/obama-admin-tells-landlords-they-cant-refuse-to-house-criminals/ |
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So they claim minorities are criminal? Who is causing the racial imbalance in the criminal justice system?
I bet criminals have shitty credit. Can you still deny them based on credit score? |
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Just read it, and yeah it's basically written in there.
Holy shit. |
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. |
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Amazing how our gov't is so concerned about the rights of criminals.
Innocent people....not so much. They are on our phones In our computers and our bank accounts |
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Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Surely that will be addressed in the next HUD edict. |
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employers aren't going to be able to deny employment for criminal behavior, either.
just wait for it. |
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I can't wait to get a sex offender applying for a unit so I can tell my Obama loving tenants they have to live with him.
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I could care less about criminal records.
Credit scores, on the other hand... |
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Quoted: Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Next up. Credit score is not a protected class, but having low credit scores is in itself a racial issue, and denying based on credit score is racist also and can mean you violate the fair housing act. Prepare to be sued! |
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Surely that will be addressed in the next HUD edict. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Surely that will be addressed in the next HUD edict. At least it will hold them off for a little while. |
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Man, that jug eared motherfucker is really ramping up his insanity his last nine months.
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Democrats are already trying to undermine the credit score system. 2014
The top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee is proposing sweeping changes to a law that governs the way lenders report consumer payments to credit bureaus. The move could help millions of Americans get better interest rates on mortgages, auto financing and student loans. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) plans to introduce the Fair Credit Reporting Improvement Act of 2014 on Wednesday to update the 44-year-old consumer protection law with nearly 20 new provisions or fixes. Chief among the changes are proposals to shorten the amount of time that black marks remain on a credit report from seven to four years, remove all settled debts from the report and erase private student loan defaults for borrowers once they make nine consecutive, on-time payments. “It is an issue that has been ignored for too long,” Waters said in an interview. “The time has come to straighten out the complaints and the problems of the credit reporting agencies.” |
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I could care less about criminal records. Credit scores, on the other hand... View Quote I care about criminal records if the convictions are recent or involved violence, deviance or immorality. I don't want to rent to burglars, murderers, rapists or drug dealers. Simple assault, an old drug possession conviction, burglary 30 years ago, I don't give a shit. |
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employers aren't going to be able to deny employment for criminal behavior, either. just wait for it. Hasn't that already happened? November 3, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday he was directing federal agencies to "ban the box" in their hiring decisions, prohibiting them from asking prospective government employees about their criminal histories on job applications. Obama said the federal government "should not use criminal history to screen out applicants before we even look at their qualifications." |
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There is a reason why many potential San Francisco landlords are potential landlords - they refuse to rent their premises out because of all the regulations. This reduces the availability of housing, driving the price up on available units.
Question: What is free market? Answer: something we've forsaken. |
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"Imbalance" which suggests that things are not correctly balanced.
Crazy town. |
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There's a part of me that does feel bad for a guy who got busted when he was 21 for dealing drugs, did 5-10 in prison for it, learned his lesson, got out and tries as hard as he can to straighten up and fly right. You know, be an adult.
Nobody will hire you, nobody will rent you a decent place, and you're even disqualified from all kinds of federal benefits even if you are trying to work your ass off to find a job. It's kind of a life sentence, in a way. Even if you were "rehabilitated" in prison (i.e., the punishment worked as most hoped it would), society works as hard as it can to make sure you can never really re-integrate back into it. And that's if you're a well spoken white guy who looks like me. If you're a black dude from east Cleveland, you're fuuuuuuuucked. I'm not really commenting on the specifics of what the Obama administration is proposing, just making a general observation. I have no idea what the solution is. |
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Fundamental change. Take a big wiff. I'm sure that apartment complexes will be able to keep rent prices high once everyone finds out the place is overrun with criminals.
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Nope. I have rented to whites, blacks and hispanics. All excellent tenants....after they passed the screening process. |
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Just more expected leftist rhetoric meant to continue to destabilize our way of life or so they think, which shows the conservative American public just who they really are. Trouble-makers and criminals in every sense of the word themselves.
I listen to very little of what they have to say anymore because they are just trying to upset us anyway. |
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Just burn the house down.
They can put a tent on the foundation and live on that. Because telling me who I can have to rent to would make me so pissed off that I would consider exactly that. |
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I could care less about criminal records. Credit scores, on the other hand... View Quote Honestly, most of the ones I weed out are because of what is on their Facebook page. They don't even realize that they've been screened. It's incredible the amount of stupid stuff that people will put on their own page. |
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So as more and more of the private sector is squeezed out of the low end of the housing business, more and more government gets to swoop in and save the day with taxpayer money.
The leftist agenda is flirting with a 13th Amendment violation. |
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And we move yet another step closer to the dystopian predictions for America laid out in the Enemies trilogy becoming reality. It's utterly amazing and incredibly disturbing at one time.
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Nope. I have rented to whites, blacks and hispanics. All excellent tenants....after they passed the screening process. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Nope. I have rented to whites, blacks and hispanics. All excellent tenants....after they passed the screening process. Doesn't work like that. It is based upon percentages. |
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I care about criminal records if the convictions are recent or involved violence, deviance or immorality. I don't want to rent to burglars, murderers, rapists or drug dealers. Simple assault, an old drug possession conviction, burglary 30 years ago, I don't give a shit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I could care less about criminal records. Credit scores, on the other hand... I care about criminal records if the convictions are recent or involved violence, deviance or immorality. I don't want to rent to burglars, murderers, rapists or drug dealers. Simple assault, an old drug possession conviction, burglary 30 years ago, I don't give a shit. I have one skeevy old white guy who tried to rent from me. Thank goodness for the sex offender database. He was declined for credit reasons...but he was a kiddie diddler. |
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If the gov't can tell people where they can and cannot live, then as a landlord I'll be the one to decide who I want renting my property...not the gov't.
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As a landlord, the dumbest thing you can ever do is to give a specific reason as to why you are denying an application.
Take an application and respective application fee from anyone, regardless if you want them to rent or not. When it comes down to it, either approve them based on your background/credit check or deny them with very vague, opened ended wording such as 'rental requirements not met' and send them the generic printout from the credit bureaus where it says they have 30 or 60 days to ask for a free report. Don't ever give a direct answer, even if its 100% true. |
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November 3, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday he was directing federal agencies to "ban the box" in their hiring decisions, prohibiting them from asking prospective government employees about their criminal histories on job applications. Obama said the federal government "should not use criminal history to screen out applicants before we even look at their qualifications." View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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employers aren't going to be able to deny employment for criminal behavior, either. just wait for it. Hasn't that already happened? November 3, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday he was directing federal agencies to "ban the box" in their hiring decisions, prohibiting them from asking prospective government employees about their criminal histories on job applications. Obama said the federal government "should not use criminal history to screen out applicants before we even look at their qualifications." Kasich was bragging about how he did that in Ohio. Fucking demotard. |
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Doesn't work like that. It is based upon percentages. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That's okay. You still have to have a certain credit score. No problem. Nice try Mr President, but this is an easy workaround. Racist! Only Whitey and Asians have good credit scores. Nope. I have rented to whites, blacks and hispanics. All excellent tenants....after they passed the screening process. Doesn't work like that. It is based upon percentages. It's worked just dandy for me. |
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No such thing as private property anymore.
Civil Rights Act has destroyed private business. Drug War and Terrorism have destroyed 4th Amendment rights. You don't even really own your house if you can be forced to rent it to a criminal just because "Well blacks and hispanics are in prison a lot, so..." |
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Every day I hate that jug-eared POS even more.... and the MORONS who put him in the White House.
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Landlords and businesses should be able to refuse anyone for any reason.
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