One year on #RentStrike
One goal: #CancelRent
Still going strong ✊
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— 1234 Pacific Street Tenant Association (@1234PacificPowr) April 1, 2021
Posted on 08/29/2022 9:10:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
First, Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats successfully passed student loan “cancelation” legislation, ridiculously and purposely misnomered, “student debt forgiveness.” Next up, rent “cancelation”? As pandemic eviction moratoriums expire and rent payment relief programs end across the U.S., about 8.5 million people are behind on rent as of the end of August, according to Census Bureau data.
Of those 8.5 million renters, nearly four million say they are somewhat or very likely to be evicted over the next two months. Hence, can demands for rent cancellation be the next big Democrat wealth-redistribution scam, demanded by people who have been programmed to believe housing is a “right,” regardless of one’s ability to pay for it?
One year on #RentStrike
One goal: #CancelRentStill going strong ✊
pic.twitter.com/5fs8UnlNod— 1234 Pacific Street Tenant Association (@1234PacificPowr) April 1, 2021
As reported by MSN, a combination of soaring inflation, the end of most eviction moratoriums, rental assistance payments, and an extremely low vacancy rate, has pushed rents up — and many renters out. (See: Bidenomics and Bidenflation) According to Zillow, rents topped $2,000 a month in June for the first time on record. Hence, 3.8 million renters behind on rent, as I suggested above, expect to be kicked to the curb.
Here’s more, via Daily Wire:
In Southern California, landlords have described the nightmare situations they found themselves in when eviction moratoriums allowed their tenants to stay and not pay, sometimes for years.
One Pasadena couple said they were unable for months to collect rent from a tenant who leased a new car and allegedly frequently buys new clothes and gets food delivered. Another couple purchased a house last summer in nearby Carson. Months later, they still could not move in as a tenant from the previous owner refused to leave. Yet another couple in Riverside, California, was unable to move into their new house when the sellers became squatters and continued to live in the home for more than a year.
In New York, one woman lived rent-free in the trendy West Village in Manhattan for more than three years, making life hell for her landlord, who was also her roommate. She was finally evicted this week.
In some places like Los Angeles County, the local government also has been sluggish in disbursing emergency funds to landlords who lost money when tenants stopped paying.
Similar accounts exist across America, as evictions continue to spike in major (Democrat-run) cities. In Tampa, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, evictions in August were 52 percent above average, while in Houston, they were 90 percent above average. And then we have Minneapolis-St. Paul — where “peaceful protests” first erupted over the death of George Floyd — rents were 94% above average.
Given the history of the Democrat Party and its buck-passing history (the buck-passer in chief was unavailable for comment), it’s not inconceivable that Democrats will now blame property owners for the failure of tenants to pay their rent, is it not?
Then, not unlike Biden’s ultimate capitulation to student loan “forgiveness” demands, can rent “forgiveness” demands now gain even more traction, at which point Biden and the Democrats will again cave like cheap tents, to wingnuts like AOC, Bernie Sanders, Lizzie Warren, and Ayanna Pressley?
In Joe Biden’s America, anything radically left-wing is possible.
Particularly when related to pandering and exploitation — and the ballot box.
Covid didnt crush the economy.
Government crushed the economy.
BIDEN HOOD strategy to bring down America.
I love that saying. I will start using it!
This was never going to be a good policy for tenants or landlords. If you are a landlord, mass evictions isn’t exactly when you want to evict your tenants.
The goal of the pandemic was that destroy the world’s economy so ONLY the governments of the world could rescue everyone and the globalists are pretty close to that goal. I don’t believe the world will ever go back to “the way things were” too many young people will be all too happy to live up under a Chinese style of democracy
You are insane. There is no Chinese style of democracy. Unless you mean Taiwan.
The biggest challenge with the comparison is STANDING.
Almost no one would be granted standing in a lawsuit against the debt cancellation. The government owns the debt due to the restructuring that occurred years ago, and so the government can plausibly forgive that debt.
With rent, every landlord will have standing. Such a proposal automatically becomes a “taking” that is unconstitutional according to the Bill of Rights. In order for it hold, the government would have to pay the landlords, and that could easily amount to trillions of dollars.
Old people had a name for this situation. They called it Reality. She was the first teacher in the school of Adult Life. And she was meaner than Hillary in a scratchy pantsuit.
Govt. Inflation is causing this.
High COL
The DNC will Have us take on their rent obligations.
They know full well there’s nothing we will do about it.
The Damn Rent’s too High !
Our new government overlords are scheming to ban air travel for the common peasants too by 2027. Only government authorized air travel allowed.
I remember a solution for me was called “roommates”.
It keeps crushing the economy.
Their future plan is to continue to do so via 87,000 more irs thugs.
Then what about those with mortgages! Do they also get it or do they sue for discrimination?
I hope they end up 9n the street.
Grifters...
The landlords didn’t get a mortgage and utilities moratorium though and they’re not all stinking rich.
I demand my free home…. But it’s got to be in the ritzy part of town
I have a difficult time taking an author seriously who doesn't understand simple government basics and/or doesn't have a working knowledge of the facts. How did this get by and editor?
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