Obama Admin Tells Landlords They Can’t Refuse To House Criminals

You guys crack me up with long post.

Who cares what Obama thinks!

Obama was allowed to become president for the sole purpose of giving voice to the morons that were ignored and shunned because they were well, morons!

You can find these morons everywhere. If you are bored and have nothing else to do you, can strike up a conversation with them.

If you thought you knew stupid and you have some time on your hands, find your local moon bat and give them some attention.
If you have the time and patience to listen to them, OH and let them do all the talking you, as a conservative will be forced to hold in your laughter.
They are Gods special creatures.

 

I think they are looking for a specific cause. If you have tenents with kids, you could justify denying a molester based on the presences of children as potential. If your property is in a high drug district, you could deny someone convicted of a drug crime. That kind of thing.

 

First I would claim that your use of statistics is a violation of basic principles of Justice. Just because some criminals end up back in jail does not mean they all do. I am against the idea of punishing one person for the actions of another - as is the Rule of Law.

Second, there is no guarantee that (depending on the criminal which I addressed in some previous posts - Pedophiles and Serial killers IMO should get no rights as they have already shown themselves to be sub-human) that this criminal will make the landlord suffer any more or less than some tenant without a criminal record.

This is an interesting way of looking at things. The landlord would not know that the fellow was a criminal though so it is a bit of a divergence from the OP question.

In general I have mixed feelings about use of credit checks. Its a tough one. On the one hand this is not about something that someone can do without - a place to live. On the other hand one can not help to feel for a landlord who has had deadbeat tenants.

I agree that this is a pretty good equilizer. What do we do with folks with bad credit that can not find a place to live though ?

 

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.....>>

Could it be possible that the racial imbalance in the U.S. justice system is the direct result of the racial imbalance of crimes committed?

 

There it is. He wants us dead.

That is straight up, bat(*)(*)(*)(*) crazy.

 

"my people" need special rights and considerations.

 

I'm a landlord. I have no obligation to explain why I chose to rent to any particular person/people or why I didn't choose not to rent to a particular person/people. I don't say anything other than "I've rented the apt. to someone else and wanted you to know so you could make other plans as soon as possible." I might say "there was a lot of interest in the apt." or something. If they ask directly why they didn't get it, I just say "because I could could only rent to one of the applicants. I had to choose someone and chose someone else."

 

Like I'd ever rent to a criminal.

F--- You Obama, you stupid turd.

Guess who's gone forever on Jan. 20 2017?

 

Right, you can't just have a policy of nobody with any arrests or convictions

 

Does that include child molestation rape murder?

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the back door way of saying that blacks commit more crimes?

 

he's already backpedelled on that and said "no one intends to allow pedo's near schools" (paraphrased)

but how do we know what Obama's general statement about "refusing criminals" means. He wasn't clear. I'm sure Obama meant, "quit using the 'criminal' excuse in order to justify not renting to blacks", and he's not concerned with pedos being denied housing..... but slippery slope means the LGBTQQi is going to see an opening and run with it like they have with the entire transgender thing allowing boys into girl locker-rooms and shaming the girls who object to being forced to dress out in front of them.

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funny how when it conveniences the argument, race-baiters have no problem admitting just that.

 

What does any of that have to do with renting your house to a criminal? And another thing, speaking of straw men, why do you lefties ALWAYS revert back to the Civil Rights movement when the subject at hand has absolutely nothing to do with race? You should think about that and think about what you sound like every time you repeat "Civil Rights movement" in regards to a scenario that you disagree with politically. If it's not the 52 year old CRM y'all bring up, it's something in German that refers to Hitler, who died 71 years ago. Grow up.

 

A guy who got a DUI in 1983 isn't a felon. Would you let a guy you didn't know, who robbed a store at gunpoint in 1983, live in your home?

 

Would you give a thief a job working the cash register? The guy who owns the company I work for hires inmates to do some of the things around here. He's put every one of them into their own place after they got out of jail, and gave them a job working here full time (so they could earn a paycheck and pay for their bills after he got them on their feet). Two, TWO, have not gone back to jail and are still employed here, and we've had close to 30 come through since 2008.

 

obama comes up with this (*)(*)(*)(*) a week after he released 61 more federal prisoners. 21 of those prisoners were serving life sentences. Think about it.... He releases prisoners, he comes up with a new law where you can't legally turn down a prisoner if he or she applies for one of your rentals. You turn down one of the life servers and according to his law, that's yo ass and now YOU'LL be the criminal. We have our normal apologists making excuses and claiming they'd house these people, which I 110% doubt, but don't be like them.

 

Imagine that.

 

I think that's indeed the case....there's little secret about about it. I don't buy that BS about the police arresting only black suspects and giving all others a break.

 

Yes raised by "activists" gets into Stanford due to AA ( and admits it) and makes nearly his entire platform about activism/racism... What could go wrong?

 

Get back to me after you turn down the first criminal, that just got out of prison for going crazy and beating his girlfriend to a pulp, that has reported you for not letting him rent your property. I don't fear anyone, I'm just not dumb or sympathetic enough to rent my property out to someone I feel will cause trouble, trash the place, or sporadically pay me. I'd rather save my property for the couple in the city that have decided to settle down in the country and raise a family. You can rent to the wife beaters.

 

So true... We can't even ask females if they're pregnant during their interview.

 

I read that. What a joke, and he claims that's why he succeeded too, so that tells me that AA will even more enforced if that loony became the VP. First a guy that hangs out with home grown unrepentant domestic terrorists, then a damn Castro... What the hell has this country gone to.

 

I am well aware that I am not required to rent to anyone who constitutes a danger, the ideologically-driven nervous nellies notwithstanding.

 

not according to Obama

 

Then you didnt read the OP.

 

You can legally turn down an ex-con, you can't just have a no criminal record policy.

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Someone didn't read it alright but it appears it was you:

While the Act does not prohibit housing providers from appropriately considering criminal history information when making housing decisions, arbitrary and overbroad criminal history-related bans are likely to lack a legally sufficient justification.”