California City Makes It Illegal To Do Criminal Background Checks!

Landlords in Oakland, CA can no longer do criminal background
checks. Here is why that is a stupid idea.

Yeah, sorry, spoiler alert - a city government did something
stupid - shocker. This one is a big deal tho. It reveals not only
the Oakland city councils hypocrisy but also their general
stupidity on how to actually solve a problem. We are going to
talk about this one today and bring up some very unpleasant
facts.


For one thing, Oakland is basically asking landlords to flip a
coin - you have a 50/50 chance that the person you rent to will
commit a crime with this law. The really amazing part is that you
are forced to be ignorant of that fact. Of course, my first
opinion is that no government should be able to tell a land owner
what they can or cannot do when it comes to renting their
property. In this case tho, they are not even solving the problem
they claim to be solving AND they are putting all the risk, cost
and liability on the shoulders of landlords.


Links:


Realtor Magazine - Oakland makes criminal background checks
illegal

LA Times -Despite an emphasis on inmate rehab, California
recidivism rate is 'stubbornly high'

Homelessness among previously incarcerated

Sacramento Real Estate Stats for Dec 2019



 


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