{"id":173,"date":"2023-01-15T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=173"},"modified":"2023-02-06T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:23:21","slug":"fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/01\/15\/fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Chance for Housing offers fighting chance for New Yorkers with a conviction against racist rental practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2022\/12\/15\/fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices\/\">Amsterdam News<\/a> &#8211; City Councilmember Shahana Hanif says opposition of the bill is heavily rooted in landlord anti-Blackness rather than good faith safety concerns given that the Fair Chance for Housing Act, as it stands, would still allow property owners to check the sex offender registry with appropriate notice and would provide an opportunity for the applicant to dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand the concerns, to be honest, because there are several exceptions to who has access to housing through this piece of legislation that would give them some ease,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is about people\u2019s safety and stability and people who are coming into neighborhoods to return to a life where they have stable housing, employment, school, and to be able to integrate into family life again. Landlords should be supportive of this [and] advocating with these people who will be paying rent and be good neighbors. And that\u2019s the commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s who I\u2019ve heard opposition from. My team and I, and the majority of the Council\u2014we have over 30 sponsors on this piece of legislation\u2014are ready to debunk any of these myths that some of these landlords are spewing. I think a lot of what we\u2019ve seen are dangerous myths and tropes. And then specifically, just anti-Black. It\u2019s really important [to know] that this is the way the landlord community thinks of Black people. That\u2019s not okay.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2022\/12\/15\/fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2022\/12\/15\/fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices\/\">Amsterdam News<\/a> &#8211; City Councilmember Shahana Hanif says opposition of the bill is heavily rooted in landlord anti-Blackness rather than good faith safety concerns given that the Fair Chance for Housing Act, as it stands, would still allow property owners to check the sex offender registry with appropriate notice and would provide an opportunity for the applicant to dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/01\/15\/fair-chance-for-housing-offers-fighting-chance-for-new-yorkers-with-a-conviction-against-racist-rental-practices-2\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}