As a former Chicago resident, I could totally see this; the solution is to anonymize the rental application process using a neutral third-party (which handles c

As a former Chicago resident, I could totally see this; the solution is to anonymize the rental application process using a neutral third-party (which handles credit and background checks). The reality, however, is that apartment / home rental is a devil’s bargain, regardless of status, and gaming the system to catch racist landlords is not unlike using a magnet to pick up nails. I lucked out in my last apartment building, with a decent landlord and well-kept (owner-managed) property, but that was an exception, even for a gainfully-employed white cis male. Chicago explicitly sucks for renters, in spite of the landlord-tenant laws on the books; frankly, inexpensive working-class housing doesn’t exist anywhere in urban America.