Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Houses of Ill Repute?

 In a series of tweets on June 8, Virginia Heffernan, a Harvard-educated columnist for The Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region. Time to change what a ‘bad neighborhood’ is.” In follow-up tweets she added, “…and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. No one should say ‘this is a great place to raise kids’ about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.” The idea is to take “race, class [and] politics out of the real estate equation.” [More]

If we're talking L.A., I'd think Neighborhood Scout would provide a more relevant metric. There's no mention of how many houses Hefferman has sold to validate her real estate creds, but who wants to bet race and class aren't factors in where she's chosen to live?

On a side note, this is the first time I believe I've ever seen NRA link to one of my articles -- :

If a recent request regarding Hunter Biden is a reliable indication, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) claims it is prohibited from releasing its records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act where “the subject of the records request is a third party and a private citizen,” unless the person has authorized the release or the “public interest in the disclosure outweighs the personal privacy interests” of the individual.

I hope whoever did that doesn't get in trouble...😟

3 comments:

Henry said...

“Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius..."
I can imagine Chicago real-estate agents reading this and asking each other, "legal or total?"

Anonymous said...

What they are proposing is a federal crime. "Steering" and "red lining" laws outlawed telling potential buyers "this is a bad neighborhood".

David Codrea said...

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Pete commented on "When the Going Gets Tough..."
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I hear Chicago has very low ownership rates.