@dood111 saidIt's a racist stereotype that the law makes illegal to act upon even if you are ignorant enough to believe it.
Still doesn't change the fact that "Them" have a history of renting places and tearing them up after not paying rent for 6 months before finally getting tossed out and leaving the place trashed. .
@no1marauder saidstate the law please.
It's a racist stereotype that the law makes illegal to act upon even if you are ignorant enough to believe it.
BTW…Im speaking as a person that has rental properties.
@mott-the-hoople saidI just gave the link. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/renters-rights-book/chapter5-2.html
state the law please.
BTW…Im speaking as a person that has rental properties.
If you want to read the text of federal discrimination law, see 42 United States Code Sections 3601-3619 and 3631.
If you've been violating the law, perhaps you should make a forthright admission to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and throw yourself on their mercy.
@shavixmir said"However, I'm not sure reparations are the way forward though. "
It was an interesting 30 minutes. I watched it early this morning.
What happened is truly disgusting. However, I'm not sure reparations are the way forward though.
Oliver conviently missed out lationos, Asians, Moslims, etc.
All who probably received equal treatment because of those laws that were introduced.
And if you turn up at some fancy gated community dr ...[text shortened]... her which won't take generations to work themselves out.
*shrugs and walks away... not my fight*
Reparations are tricky. There are pros and cons and I am stuck in the middle on which way to lean.
"Oliver conviently missed out lationos, Asians, Moslims, etc.
All who probably received equal treatment because of those laws that were introduced. "
it's a half hour segment and he has to fit in jokes as well. Let's not demand for his head just yet because he didn't fit every wronged minority in half hour.
"Still, I'm not sure I can see any other solutions to the problem either which won't take generations to work themselves out. "
A huge step forward would simply be to change how the schools are funded from district taxes to federal funding.
Another measure that would have major impact would be to forbid any other shape for districts than a rectangle. No more democrats ignoring red districts and republicans ignoring blue districts. No more dumping all the poor into a few districts.
You can't change minds in a day or two. You can however make whites care about minorities, republicans care about democrats or democrats caring about republicans if you make them neighbours.
If a rich family suddenly finds their school being underfunded because the funding is federal, they will start voting for people promising to increase funding.
If rich whites suddenly share a district with poor minorities they will care what happens to them because it affects them as well.
@dood111 saidYou should watch the show that was linked.
Maybe the housing discrimination is because...uhh...certain people have a habit of renting homes and apartments and trashing them before they get evicted for not paying the rent as soon as they settle in? Seems like I've heard of that happening before.
The housing discrimination in the US is down to various laws which were enforced. Literally denying black people the same stimuli that was offered to white people.
So, white people could afford to buy homes in good neighbourhoods and black people couldn’t.
So, poverty traps were created. It’s bizarre.
You fought in WW2 against nazis, you come home. White people are offered financial assistance to buy a home. And black people weren’t. That is pure discrimination. In paper. In law.
How do you propose addressing the problems this has created in your society?
We have a discrimination problem here in the UK, many landlords refuse to rent to anyone on benefits. Which is unlawful. There's also some landlords who don't want children! Since we sold the majority of our social housing off there is a serious lack of affordable rented properties. We also have the 'mortgage to let' entrepreneurs who get a mortgage and live in that property then take out another mortgage on a buy to let property and rent that out, the rental income often covering more than the mortgage costs. It's a big problem here.
Is there a housing shortage in the States?