St. Bernard's new housing ordinance

Wow. The nerve. The stupidity.

And now, inevitably, the federal lawsuit:

A New Orleans civil rights organization filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn a St. Bernard Parish ordinance that prohibits many homes from being rented to anyone who is not a blood relative of the owner... [...]After enacting an across-the-board moratorium on renting single-family homes in March, the council voted 5-2 on Sept. 19 to lift the moratorium, but require that the renter be a blood relative of the owner.

Trust a transplant to see through this nonsense:

“Blood relatives? That’s just a code word for skin color,” said Munoz, who moved to Violet from Los Angeles 20 years ago. “How would they even enforce this? Are they going to run DNA tests on everyone who wants to rent a house?”

Heck, maybe they will.

Somebody ought to check out whether the "yea" voters on the council have interest in a genetics lab...

Update:

Related: Just go home?