{"id":29,"date":"2016-06-10T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:07:55","slug":"nuisance-criminal-history-and-housing-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/2016\/06\/10\/nuisance-criminal-history-and-housing-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuisance, Criminal History, and Housing Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

In many cities, one of the sources of homelessness for many people is nuisance ordinances that fine landlords if there are too many police calls to a property. Desmond and Valdez\u2019s 2013 article “Unpolicing the Urban Poor: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women” published in the American Sociological Review<\/em> (volume 78) analyzed every nuisance citation in Milwaukee over a two-year period. Key findings are that nearly a third of these involved domestic violence, a nuisance that was generally \u201cabated\u201d by evicting a battered woman. Nuisance citations were more common in Black neighborhoods, especially more-integrated Black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Another is the practice of screening potential tenants for criminal records. Even if there was an arrest with no conviction, and even if the conviction was a long time ago, police in many areas, including Madison, \u201cencourage\u201d landlords to screen tenants for criminal records as a way to reduce \u201ccrime problems\u201d in neighborhoods. As homelessness makes it harder to keep a job and avoid relapse into addiction, as well as exposes a person to increase crime victimization and more arrests for violation of loitering ordinances, the impact of these policies is to create a stigmatized population that is simply not allowed to live anywhere.<\/p>\n

The ACLU is investigating Madison\u2019s police department for disparate racial impact in its housing-related policies, including nuisance citations, encouraging landlords to do background checks, and requiring landlords to have \u201cno visitor\u201d policies for troubled properties, policies that greatly hinder tenants\u2019 ability to maintain contact with important support networks, including family members and the no-resident parents of children. News story about Madison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In many cities, one of the sources of homelessness for many people is nuisance ordinances that fine landlords if there are too many police calls to a property. Desmond and Valdez\u2019s 2013 article “Unpolicing the Urban Poor: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women” published in the American Sociological Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[33,36,32,35,34,20],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-housing","category-social-issues","tag-eviction","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-madison","tag-nuisance-ordinances","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/soc\/racepoliticsjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}