try telling the lender that you trying to buy this $749,000 house on undocumented freelancing income and you liable to get arrested on the lenders premises much less get a mortgage :)

No slime ball con man wants to be arrested as a drug dealer.

Police aren't even arresting people shooting heroin on the sidewalk in downtown.

You'll likely end up arrested and in jail for a self help eviction and that tenant will end up owning the property.

I can’t go see my brother at his house (a private residence, by the way), under the pretense that we both agree to see each other, without the risk of being handcuffed, arrested and thrown into a police car?

The rest who are on the street don’t want to be videotaped making an arrest.

I meant the lady needed the money because her daughter, who had 3 small children, had been arrested.

:As of July 11, 2019, the Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination in public and private housing based on a favorably resolved arrest record, an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, a sealed conviction record, or a youthful offender adjudication.

If that doesn't work, you might have to go to the extent of calling the police and having him "trespassed" from the property - meaning that further trespass will subject him to arrest. 

We tell potential tenants that we do not rent to felons, sex offenders, or with any sort of drug or assault arrest even if there is no conviction.