Minneapolis ordinance to prevent tenant screening

[Amber Gonion]

This is not good for Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously Friday morning to approve a controversial new ordinance designed to protect renters.

The ordinance prevents landlords from using old criminal or housing records to deny applicants. 

Previously, property owners could look at someone’s criminal and credit history before renting to them, sometimes going back a decade. Renters said mistakes of the past should not affect their future, especially something from ten or twenty years ago.

The ordinance passed 12-0.

[John Woodrich]

This may help solve part of the inventory shortage on properties for sale in certain areas.....