Posted on 01/23/2020 1:40:09 PM PST by C19fan
Following a unanimous vote by the city council Tuesday night, Oakland has now become the first city in California to ban criminal background checks on potential renters.
“Indescribable emotions and feelings,” said John Jones III of Oakland, who got out of prison in 2012 and struggled to find a place to live in Oakland despite his well-paying job as an aviation mechanic.
Jones said he’s among the many who left prison only to end up on the streets, contributing to Oakland’s homeless crisis. That’s why he’s been lobbying hard for the Oakland City Council to pass the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance, which says landlords will no longer be allowed to turn down potential renters because of criminal convictions.
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Dere go da ‘hood.
A ban on background checks? In Oakland? What could go wrong?
I will be looking forward to the stories of how badly this backfires on property owners.
I own an upscale apartment complex. I do anal background and credit checks to protect my renters and you would not believe how the women renters appreciate it. it’s a selling point for my apartments. They want to live in a safe apartment complex.
Wait until some woman is raped by a repeat sexual offender.
Why I built my apartments as condos. I can always sell them off.
Just wait until some pervert attacks a kid. The landlord will get sued for everything he owns. Does anyone remember why we have Megan’s law?
The more presentable properties will go co-op or condo. The section 8 stuff will be abandoned for taxes.
BUT will they have to pass a background check to purchase a Firearm?
Yep just another small incremental step of total government control over the housing market.
Anal background checks?
That sounds painful.
Downright alien.
They’re hiding shit, I just know it!!!
that’s stanky!
So Bill Clinton can now rent in Oakland.
Oh, FFS. This is crazy.
Looks like rent is going to be going up... and the number of people willing to rent will be going waaaaay down.
A,couple of complexes not that far away went section 8.
Crime is up. Mostly thefts from what I gather from nextdoor’s app.
Car break ins top the list.
A very young girl got robbed at gunpoint for a smartphone.
We are living in an Idiocracy on steroids.
Squatters in Oakland breaking and entering vacant homes to claim as their own, and the libs smile and support that. Now landlords have to let scummy criminals rent their place. Democrat libs out of control. Here comes anarchy.
What a great way to run landlords AND lowlife out of your craphole city
Brace yourselves suburbs, here comes the scum
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