Six possibilities how cities try to keep rental objects and tenants safely

In this spring, when the legislator in the Senate of the state of Illinois discussed a bill that would restrict local programs that are known as crime -free living space, hundreds of witnesses appeared to share their views on the proposed changes.

City officials and chiefs of police argued that ordinances that the programs can rule that the landlords can demand to pass tenants who had contact with the law enforcement authorities should remain as they are. Aggressive ordinances are necessary to help the police displace drug dealers who set up a shop in residential buildings and force the landlords to deal with problems on their real estate.

The lawyers and tenants for housing buildings spoke to the support of important changes and pointed out in several cases of discriminatory and illegal enforcement. The landlords also pleaded for further regulations and told the senators that they were not interested in acting as the police for an enforcement.

It is a debate that has intensified in the past three decades, since the number of criminal housing programs has spread from a handful of early adopters to more than 2,000 municipalities in 42 states.

An investigation by the New York Times and the Illinois answers showed that hundreds of people in Illinois have been sold in recent years, many of them because of smaller violations that are nowhere near their houses. Sometimes people were threatened with evacuation after calling 911 for help.