Dalton to Change Housing Laws

The City of Dalton wants to cap the number of unrelated people living in the same household to two, and each other resident would then need about four hundred feet of living space; the same goes for vehicles parked outside.

Dalton’s Mayor David Pennington said those changes would help support sagging property values.

"We got beighborhood with single family home with eight, nine, cars parked outside. If you have multiple adults living in one house, that's not a single family,” said Pennington.

But local Hispanic advocates said the code changes mainly affect Latino families. They say some renters go overboard renting to individual, immigrant workers, but with families, it’s a part of the culture.

Bobby Womack, from Latino's for Justice and Education, says its not fair for immigrants.

"Our orginization- we believe in individual human dignity and the attacks on the immigrant is very upsetting. Its just sad, " said Womack.

Pennington disagrees; he says it’s a universal matter of economics.