Lifting a hurdle to a welcome home
by the Monitor's Editorial Board
Jan 05, 2024
2 minutes
In the past three decades, an estimated 2,000 American cities adopted housing policies encouraging or requiring landlords to deny rental dwellings to formerly incarcerated people and evict existing tenants with criminal histories – including 104 municipalities in California. This week the state adopted the first law in the United States banning the practice.
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