Times-Picayune: HANO draft policy supposedly loosening criminal background checks would actually do the opposite of that
 

The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is currently in the process of revising its policy on criminal background checks for housing and job applicants. HANO has some lofty goals in mind here, reports Richard Webster:


<blockquote>"Their criminal history is likely a bar to admission to most affordable housing opportunities, making post-incarceration reunification of families a near impossible dream," HANO says in the preamble to its proposed policy statement.? [ Read more ]

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