Oakland to ban criminal background check on renters

Not wanting criminals in your rental property is racissss

Here’s your sign, potential Oakland landlords.

Get OUT!

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Thoughts?

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Gonna be a whole lot of rental properties removed from the market, publicly. Gotta have references referral to even know of the property being for rent. Therefore the property owner has plausible deniability to refuse to rent the property at all. It's simply not up for rent, the applicant was not denied.

Supposedly one out of every four black males age 18-34 is involved w/the criminal justice system (in prison/jail; out on bail; on probation/parole)

Cities are controlled by black political machines

This is what their voters want

Expect more of the same around the country

Such BS. One of the reasons the housing projects in Nola have been so much better since Katrina is because they screen people better and have more authority to remove scum.
I fully expect that to change in the next few years

These laws are an example of unintended consequences

Laws banning background checks are awful for young black men without criminal records, because it forces landlords to choose whom to rent to based on the entire race, not individuals



Many employers, aware of higher rates of imprisonment among blacks, are less likely to hire blacks whose individual backgrounds are unknown to them. But those particular employers who investigate everyone's background before hiring them do not have to rely on such generalizations.

Can they still check credit? That will be next. After that, the city will just take ownership over all landlord duties.

This is an affront to the property rights of the owner. It's my property, I should be able to do whatever I feel is necessary to ensure that a lease is worth it.

Landlords will find ways around this.

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Landlords will find ways around this.

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Yeah not renting to black people which will happen. It sucks but I think this will have the opposite effect they’re intending.