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"Pets are noisy, apartments should allow no tenants with pets". A sincere question: what pet owners, desperately looking for a place to live, should do? Ditch their pets? Abandon them? Throw them out?
One could extrapolate and state that "babies are noisy". After all, they can cry loud. Lots of places don't allow tenants with babies. What a mother with her baby looking for a place to live is supposed to do in such a situation where every landlord denies renting a place to her? What should she do, put her baby into adoption? Throw them out?
Geez. This is one of the many reasons why the modern world is deadwalking towards the cliff nowadays...
Unpopular opinion maybe, but if your housing or financial situation is not stable enough where having a pet could put you in such a difficult position, then you shouldn't have a pet.
Things change over the course of a person’s life, things change over the average 10-year lifespan of a pet.
Those who don’t have pets and don’t have stable housing, of course, shouldn’t adopt a pet. I agree with you here.
However, for those who already had a pet before their housing situation worsened, it’s hard to “no longer have a pet.” A pet owner can’t just put the pet up for adoption, because a pet becomes familiar with its owner (and there are breeds that can’t re-familiarize themselves with another owner, especially some cats).
Take the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic for example: How many people have lost their homes due to job loss because the business they worked for went out of business due to the economic factors brought on by the pandemic? How many people have lost their homes due to the death (due to COVID) of a retired/working family member who used to help pay the bills? If these people have a dog, cat, or something else, they probably had the pet before the situation. They must've find another home, with the pets.
But then, many landlords (not only in the US) have the same thoughts as the OP: they don't accept tenants who have pets, regardless of what species or breed. I'm a cat person, I live with four cats, and they're not noisy. They don't go outside, they stay indoors, because they're neutered. But such details don't matter to landlords who have the immutable idea of "pets are noisy".
So here's the problem: this is a significant factor for homeless pets wandering the streets. Due to despair, some pet owners will simply abandon the pet on the streets, regardless of the laws (it's generally a crime to abandon a pet), so a housing can be afforded due to the stubborn rule of "no pets allowed", which curiously is not regulated by the same laws (it's not a crime to have prejudice/bigotry against tenants who are pet owners or if they have a baby). Fewer people do the right thing at this situation and put the pets to adoption but, as I said, it's not an easy thing for some species and breeds.
I have yet to hear a baby cry so loudly that I can hear it through my walls. So far in the 3 years I've lived here, not one instance can I recall or know of babies crying that loudly. Kids, who're able to talk and walk, they can be loud yes but they're manageable. It's lazy parenting that lets them be that way. Pets, generally, they're going to be loud and they're hard to control because nobody puts in the effort.
Now I have a question back at you - did you read the part where I said that some owners fucking suck at being owners or did you selectively skip that part to make the comment that you've made? Learn to read, it'd help you sometime.
Yeah I did read the part that some owners neglect their pets. However, two mistakes don't make a right take. There are bad pet owners, and there are good pet owners, and the same rule applies to both, which is unfairly punishing good pet owners... A rule which several landlords have, a rule which will render people who had pets before their housing worsening situation to either abandon their pets or going homeless. You stated that "pets are noisy", and this concept alone is generalization. Cats aren't. Some dog breeds (Border Collie, Huskies) aren't.
As for babies, yeah, it's a rule sometimes found being practiced by landlords, they don't accept tenants who have a baby. I'm not sure how's this situation in US, but here in Brazil this is a commonly found rule, which is an infuriating rule, and that's why my comment sounded passionately raged, because it's so unfair by many degrees...