HUD offers more protections for criminals trying to rent

[Greg Scott]

In a letter this week Marcia Fudge, Secretary of HUD, indicated that she intends to "reduce barriers to housing among those people with a criminal record". See here for full details. https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfil...

Recently the Federal Government seems intent on burdening property owners with the costs of resolving challenges of society. What they fail to understand is that we need healthy businesses to deliver great places to live.  Part of providing excellent housing is how we screen residents.  Yes, it protects our businesses, but it protects our residents too.  Most residents would be very upset if they found out their neighbor was a sex offender or drug dealer.  

This makes me wonder how Marcia Fudge would feel if she were forced her to live in a neighborhood full of convicted felons.

[Scott Mac]

More Public Housing should be built--aka "the Projects".

I know they are crime holes, It's better than homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks, and it keeps the crime concentrated in one area.

Most of these people are probably just between Prison Sentences. They let them out they commit more crime, they go back in. Most, but not all. But I think the ones that don't go back in can float back into society as responsible citizens if they really want to.

They want to force us to house them closer to their next victims--a very sorry state of affairs. 

Multi-family Managers are are not hardened Prison Guards, neither are the rent-cops who patrol the parking lots.

This is not the way to help these people, it will only drive down society further.