Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Apr 01, 2007 Comments Off on Renting to Illegal Aliens/Term Limits Tango
Some thoughts after reading today’s news…
RENTING TO
ILLEGAL ALIENS
Assemblyman Charles Calderon has introduced legislation (Assembly
Bill 976) that, according to the bill, "Would prohibit cities and
counties from requiring landlords to ‘compile, disclose, report,
provide or otherwise take any action regarding the characteristics
of a tenant or a prospective tenant that is not expressly required
by state or federal law.’
He has introduced this legislation in response to the recent
goings-on in the city of Escondido in northern San Diego County,
where the City Council passed a local ordinance to prohibit
landlords from renting to illegal aliens. After facing an
avalanche of legal challenges, the Council actually yanked their
landmark regulation. Apparently Calderon doesn’t want it
happening again.
I think that if we are going to have state legislation come about
as a result of all of this, how about allowing landlords the right
to use legal residency as a legitimate screening issue when… Read More