Besides limiting property tax increases and road building projects, now the Walker administration is sweeping away local rental controls.
Hudson Observer: A Wisconsin Senate committee held a public hearing on a bill its opponents say would wipe out decades of protections for renters. The Republican bill would ban cities from limiting a landlord’s ability to use income and credit records, criminal histories and rental histories to determine whether to admit or keep tenants. The bill would also eliminate local ordinances that restrict the showing and leasing of apartments while existing tenants are in them. Senate Republican Frank Lasee of De Pere says property owners are responsible for the criminal activities of their tenants so it only makes sense to let them consider tenants’ previous records.
Brenda Konkel of Madison’s Tenant Resource Center says a big chunk of progress in affordable housing would be wiped out … Madison Mayor Paul Soglin says the bill tramples on decades of thought into Madison’s fair housing ordinances … the state is trying to take over things that should be handled locally
The one size fits all bill, an idea Republicans have hated until now, will at least…get a hearing.
An aide to Senate Republican Dale Schultz of Richland Center says his boss could have rammed the changes through in the budget process, but didn’t so communities would have some time to talk about it.
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