While reading the joke that is the Boston Globe, I came across this interesting article: "If you don’t rent to criminals, are you a racist?" Of course, Betteridge's law of headlines tells us the answer is "No" and that should be the end of that. Not to the Obama administration.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/...story.html
Here's a relevant snippet:
Of course, the article goes on to mention that discriminating against protected classes, like race, is already enshrined in the law but this ties into the whole "disparate impact" theory which gained increased prominence with a successful Supreme Court case earlier this year.
My original intention when typing up this post was to lambast HUD in continuing the Obama government's policy of circumventing government and using executive orders & letters from agencies to push policy changes (our main example of reference being the "Dear Colleague" letter that forces colleges to ramp up their rape hysteria obligations in order to maintain federal funding under Title IX). Forcing landlords to take on tenants when it's not wise to do so isn't right or fair.
Then I saw the article quoted Julián (nice accent) Castro, who's been in the news a fair bit lately as he's on the campaign trail bigtime in support of Hilary Clinton. I decided to look a little deeper into his history and I can see he's the future of the Democratic party, so I want to bring everyone up to date on his past and current situation:
-He's considered one of the top potential VP picks for Hilary Clinton
-Despite what you'd assume based on pictures of him in the Globe and Wikipedia, he is apparently heterosexual, married with two children. There is no doubt he's extremely effeminate, which means a Clinton-Castro ticket would be a fantastic one-two punch completely devoid of masculinity.
-He has a twin brother who's currently in the House of Representatives
-He was raised by a single mother, so no real male influence in his life
-He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 democratic national convention, which is usually the precursor to greater political ambitions (e.g. Obama was the 2004 keynote speaker)
-His mother created the "La Raza Unida" political party back in the 70s (La Raza, eh? hmm...)
-He's 41 years old
You can certainly see the parallels between him and Obama. Just wait for the push for our first latino president in 2020 or 2024! At 41, he's got a long career feeding at the public trough ahead of him.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/...story.html
Here's a relevant snippet:
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development warned last week that landlords who refuse to rent to anyone with a criminal record are in violation of the Fair Housing Act and can be prosecuted and fined for racial discrimination.
In a 10-page “guidance” issued on April 4, the federal agency announced that any landlord with a blanket policy of not renting to people with a criminal conviction is effectively discriminating on the basis of race or national origin. “Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the US criminal justice system,” HUD’s new guidelines read, “criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing are likely disproportionately to burden African-Americans and Hispanics. . . . [T]herefore such a practice would violate the Fair Housing Act.”
The administration’s argument is twofold. First, because blacks and Hispanics commit crimes and go to prison at much higher rates than whites, a policy of automatically rejecting applicants with a criminal past will have a “disparate impact” on different racial groups. And second, not all convictions are alike, and not everyone with a prior criminal record would be a risky tenant.
Both points are indisputably true. It isn’t hard to find examples of former convicts who long ago learned their lesson and went straight, yet find it difficult to secure housing because background checks always flag their old offenses. HUD Secretary Julián Castro laments that too many landlords “use the fact of a conviction, any conviction, regardless of what it was for or how long ago it happened,” to turn away prospective tenants, thwarting those who “are only looking for a fair chance to be productive members” of society.
Of course, the article goes on to mention that discriminating against protected classes, like race, is already enshrined in the law but this ties into the whole "disparate impact" theory which gained increased prominence with a successful Supreme Court case earlier this year.
My original intention when typing up this post was to lambast HUD in continuing the Obama government's policy of circumventing government and using executive orders & letters from agencies to push policy changes (our main example of reference being the "Dear Colleague" letter that forces colleges to ramp up their rape hysteria obligations in order to maintain federal funding under Title IX). Forcing landlords to take on tenants when it's not wise to do so isn't right or fair.
Then I saw the article quoted Julián (nice accent) Castro, who's been in the news a fair bit lately as he's on the campaign trail bigtime in support of Hilary Clinton. I decided to look a little deeper into his history and I can see he's the future of the Democratic party, so I want to bring everyone up to date on his past and current situation:
-He's considered one of the top potential VP picks for Hilary Clinton
-Despite what you'd assume based on pictures of him in the Globe and Wikipedia, he is apparently heterosexual, married with two children. There is no doubt he's extremely effeminate, which means a Clinton-Castro ticket would be a fantastic one-two punch completely devoid of masculinity.
-He has a twin brother who's currently in the House of Representatives
-He was raised by a single mother, so no real male influence in his life
-He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 democratic national convention, which is usually the precursor to greater political ambitions (e.g. Obama was the 2004 keynote speaker)
-His mother created the "La Raza Unida" political party back in the 70s (La Raza, eh? hmm...)
-He's 41 years old
You can certainly see the parallels between him and Obama. Just wait for the push for our first latino president in 2020 or 2024! At 41, he's got a long career feeding at the public trough ahead of him.