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In an effort to address what the city calls “institutional racism,” the Austin-Travis County Reentry Roundtable is hoping to solidify guidelines for apartment owners and managers to make it more difficult to deny a rental application based on criminal history. The group’s Helen Gaebler says non-whites are the most affected by strict rental screenings.
Recommendations include new training for the private sector and a limitation on how many years a landlord can look back to find criminal history.
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- posborn
- January 29, 2025
- 11:25 am
Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with multiple burglaries of motor vehicles in the Kyle and Austin areas.
At approximately 1:50 a.m. on Monday,
