{"id":72169,"date":"2019-09-16T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72169"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:46:57","slug":"making-housing-affordable-by-making-it-unattanable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72169","title":{"rendered":"Making Housing Affordable By Making It Unattainable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minneapolis passed a “renter protection” ordinance last week<\/a> that’ll hamstring landlords trying to do even the most basic due diligence about potential tenants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renter\u2019s protection ordinance prevents landlords from using old criminal or housing records to deny applicants. Specifically, an applicant cannot be denied if they have a misdemeanor conviction older than three years, a felony record dating back seven years, and more serious offenses that occurred 10-plus years ago. Landlords also lose the use of a credit score during the screening process and there is a new cap on security deposits at one month\u2019s rent.
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I can see giving people a break on criminal records after a long-enough time keeping one’s nose clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, I don’t think the City of Minneapolis is the one to plop an arbitrary figure on how long it takes a criminal to be a safe risk…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…for someone else’s investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, property owners could look at someone\u2019s criminal and credit history before renting to them, sometimes going back a decade. Renters said mistakes of the past should not affect their future, especially something from 10 or 20 years ago. <\/em>
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In the 1960s, New York City instituted “Renter Protections” – rent control, making evictions for cause nearly impossible, onerous regulations on landlords – that caused the stock of “affordable housing” to become unsustainable; as landlords abandoned or sold out cheaper properties, housing either became unlivably awful and abandone, or sustainable but only affordable by the wealthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco followed suit; there is little between great wealth and grinding poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like a fine plan, Minneapolis. You’re in good hands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis passed a “renter protection” ordinance last week that’ll hamstring landlords trying to do even the most basic due diligence about potential tenants: The renter\u2019s protection ordinance prevents landlords from using old criminal or housing records to deny applicants. Specifically, an applicant cannot be denied if they have a misdemeanor conviction older than three years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,17,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-minneapolis","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72179,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72169\/revisions\/72179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}