Brickbat: What You Don't Know

Dayton, Ohio, is now sealing all eviction records. Dayton Clerk of Courts Marty Gehres said landlords often search databases and are reluctant to rent to those who have previously been evicted. Gehres touted his decision's impact on children. "One of the most important aspects of any child's life is having safe, affordable, stable housing," he said.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

One of the most important aspects of any child's life is having safe, affordable, stable housing...

And parents who never learn from their mistakes.

[Mickey Rat]

The story of our current political culture: if true facts thwart the government's vision of what is good because of how they affect rational people's behavior, then truth and facts must be hidden and suppressed.

[Brandybuck]

We could treat evictions like bankruptcy. After seven years they get struck from the government records.

Credit reports, on the other hand, will still know all about your bankruptcies and evictions. I mean, duh.

[Vernon Depner]

Landlords sometimes use searches of county records to avoid paying for a credit report.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

"One of the most important aspects of any child's life is having safe, affordable, stable housing," he said.

"We own your children, unless we fuck them them up so bad then its your fault and problem to deal with" he added.

[Vernon Depner]

“We own your children, unless we fuck them up so bad then its your fault and problem to deal with” he added.

Fixed it.

[mad.casual]

them them

This pronoun thing is really getting out of hand.

[Longtobefree]

"One of the most important aspects of any child’s life is having safe, affordable, stable housing…"

Ans what is safer or more stable than having a bunch of deadbeats for neighbors?

[mad.casual]

I'm still confused as to what sealing the records has to do with children or stable homes.

If anything, it just guarantees that instead of some intervention of social services and/or relocating to a more stable relative a continuation of past instability can just continue to fly under the radar.

Unless, of course, the next step is to ban or further tamp down evictions. But, even then you're ultimately trading the stable habitation of living in an otherwise-abandoned pile of rubble for unstable habitation that occasionally has running water and AC.

[John F. Carr]

I thought you could get eviction records the same way you get a prospective tenant's credit report, from a data broker.

[Brandybuck]

You certainly can get financial information from a prospective tenant. It's called a credit report. I've had to submit credit reports to landlords in the past. It's standard for upscale rentals. Plus all landlords in an area keep in touch and blackballed renters are indeed a thing.

[Vernon Depner]

The difference is that county records are available for free, while credit reports cost money.

[SRG2]

Well, apparently the most important thing is protecting the family.

[Jerry B.]

And another step in the demonization of landlords. why is it their business to know whether their renters will actually pay rent?

[Don't look at me!]

Rents for everyone go up to cover expected losses.

[Roberta]

That's what glares at me. It's saying landlords don't want safe, affordable, and stable housing. Or it's saying that the public interest resides in having landlords not have accurate info about renters, because that goes against policy of fooling landlords into taking unreliable ones.

[Vernon Depner]

"One of the most important aspects of any child's life is having safe, affordable, stable housing,"

And functioning adult parents who pay the fucking rent. When those are absent, the state and private charities should step in to house the children in decent orphanages, rather than subsidize keeping the children in dangerous situations in slum houses and apartments with dissolute, idle, addicted "adults".

[mad.casual]

[rubs temples]

So, before state and private charities, I would’ve said friends and relatives. But then, I would also know that orphanages are for children whose parents’ living arrangements are pretty stable, while foster homes, foster care, and adoption centers are more for children whose parents are alive but unavailable for stable parenting.

I’m not anyone who’s steeped in or particularly likes the foster care system, but JFC it’s hard to imagine a human being who hasn’t seen Harry Potter and realizes that it’s at least an option and is further aware that, in this country and many others, orphanages overwhelmingly went out with “tenements houses” (as opposed to apartment buildings, blocks and flats) and flop houses.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if you’re living out of a tenement in sarc’s head, Hank’s head, or both.

[Roberta]

...

parents who pay the fucking rent.

There's rent on that now?

[Vernon Depner]

Is it ever really free?