Income Discrimination...

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Free Shit Army strikes again...
Rising rents and landlords who refuse to rent to low-income applicants emerged as key issues at a special Bellingham City Council town hall Tuesday night to address the area’s housing crisis.
Because landlords have an obligation to accept low income tenants...?
Bellingham labor organizer Hannah Fishman, who’s part of the newly formed Bellingham Tenants’ Union, urged the city to encourage more affordable housing and work toward preventing so-called “income discrimination.”
Oh no! Don't discriminate against me because I can't afford to pay the market rate for housing.
April McCabe, a housing case manager at the Opportunity Council, spoke of a mother and her 10-year-old child who would soon be homeless because the mother couldn’t find a landlord to accept her Section 8 voucher, which is a guaranteed monthly check from the federal government.
It wouldn't be because Section 8 tenants have a bad reputation, would it?
“I would strongly recommend that we need protection,” said Krum, who’s also experienced homelessness. “The fact that landlords have declined so much in reporting Section 8 is a major problem.”
So, obviously the solution is to make them accept Section 8 vouchers. :roll:
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Direct correlation between this and Vonz's link to the article on the wrong kind of entrepreneurship. Instead of Fishman and her Union cronies trying to figure out how to make housing more affordable for low-income tenants, they seek to have the government force landlords to accept said tenants. If they were successful in making lower rent housing available it would consequently drive the prices in the current housing down or possibly make some slack in the income requirements, since the landlords would have fewer people renting from them at the higher prices. That's the way a free economy works.

But nope. Give us cheap housing because we're breathing.
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Or, what if they set up classes for Section 8 recipients with some of the following topics:
Personal finance 101
- set priorities (housing may be more important than Lotto tickets)
- spend less than you "earn"
- pay your bills
- don't take payday loans (assuming you have a payday)
- improve your marketable skills so you can get out of Section 8
Make friends and influence people
- don't tear up your landlord's property - he may not want to let you keep using it
- don't shit where you eat - stop committing crimes and creating public disturbances
- pay your bills
- don't abuse people for their color/financial status
- don't be habitually rude to people
- clean up your home and yard
- make your kids do the same

Just a thought. :roll:
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But, but, but, that is too much like work!
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RACIST!!!11!!! [/moonbat]
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Weetabix wrote:Or, what if they set up classes for Section 8 recipients with some of the following topics:
Personal finance 101
- set priorities (housing may be more important than Lotto tickets)
- spend less than you "earn"
- pay your bills
- don't take payday loans (assuming you have a payday)
- improve your marketable skills so you can get out of Section 8
Make friends and influence people
- don't tear up your landlord's property - he may not want to let you keep using it
- don't shit where you eat - stop committing crimes and creating public disturbances
- pay your bills
- don't abuse people for their color/financial status
- don't be habitually rude to people
- clean up your home and yard
- make your kids do the same

Just a thought. :roll:
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In other words, civilize yourselves. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
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Well, how about we roll with the times? African-American students at universities these days trend toward demanding segregation.

What if they require African-American rental property owners to accept African-American Section 8 tenants, and the same for whites, latinos, greeks, LGBBQWTF, etc?

And I object to the B in LGBT - it presupposes that there are only 2 genders. :lol:
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Seattle has an ordinance forbidding landlords from declining to rent to someone based on their Section 8 status.

Reading about that actually struck my fancy for an idea, too. It seems that if Seattle mandates that a person providing a service (e.g. a landlord) accept a Section 8 or Seattle Housing Authority voucher as tender for the payment of a debt, Seattle has made those vouchers legal tender for the payment of a debt.

If we can pull an ACLU and stretch the definition of "Congress" to include various sorts of municipalities, we certainly could do that with "State" in Article 1, Section 10.

In short, § 10 acts only to remove from the states the inherent sovereign power to declare currency, thus leaving Congress the sole declarant of what constitutes legal tender.
And I think I found a federal case to support my idea that Seattle mandating Section 8 vouchers be accepted as payment for a debt is unconstitutional..
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