“What you are doing is not only putting victims of domestic violence at risk but lots of other tenants at risk of remaining homeless or becoming homeless because they can’t get a landlord to rent to them,” Tenant Resource Center director Brenda Konkel said.
“The city police department has a $60 million city budget. They would hardly even notice that $1,100. It seems to me to be more appropriate that the police department pay for that,” said Brenda Konkel, executive director of the Tenant Resource Center for Housing Justice.
“It’s a dilemma a lot of us who help people find housing have is you can rent from (Peterson), but you know the apartment is going to be under standards,” said Tenant Resource Center executive director Brenda Konkel. “It might be housing for a little while, but when most of us talk about renting from him it’s like use this as a temporary place until you can find another.”
Critics of the law said the low vacancy rate naturally shifts rights to the landlord, leaving tenants at a disadvantage.
“So it’s definitely already a landlord’s market,” said Brenda Konkel, with the Tenant Resource Center. “And the free market isn’t going to fix this one until we build more affordable housing.”
