Dennis Plante asks:
The question begs to be asked, why DID the woman in the story have to
submit 4 applications to get an apartment? And who should pay for this
process?
Housing Court file 040310526 may shed some light on Dennis' first
question. It indicates that judgment was found for her former landlord
earlier this year for nonpayment of rent. The reporter ought to have
checked that.
An alternate approach to the proposed legislation might be centralized
screening. Here's what the mayoral candidates had to say about that to
the Star Tribune in 2001:
Should there be a central place for a tenant to pay a fee to get
a rental screening check, rather than paying a fee to each landlord?
Sayles Belton: Yes; sees it as a good role for the private sector
to play.
Rybak: Yes.
Steve Brandt
Star Tribune
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