'Cancel Rent'? As COVID Eviction Moratoriums Expire, 4 Million Renters Expect to Be Kicked to the Curb

Red State ^ | 08/29/2022 | Mike Miller

[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: #CancelRent

Still going strong ✊


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— 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.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: But it’s got to be in the ritzy part of town

Which won’t be ritzy any longer after every moocher moves in.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Then what about those with mortgages! Do they also get it or do they sue for discrimination?

Don’t forget utilities and property taxes. There should be a freeze on these too for landlords.

[JoJo354]

I think Mike Miller needs to go back and correct his article. The Dems did not “pass” debt forgiveness for student loans.

[Lockbox]

Great points!

[NorseWood]

Oh good! They will evict all the renters and Biden and Associates can fill up the apartments with the millions that are walking across our southern border.

[mewzilla]

The citizenry should have refused to be locked down.

Should have said no to the PPP bribes, the rent bribes, all the bribes.

Now we’re all paying for being a nation of sheep.

Best case from here on in: We, as a nation say NEVER AGAIN. And mean it.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

The SHEEP will NEVER say no to government BECAUSE they believe government knows best!! You can’t take a stand with ONLY half the country and the other half censoring your every word as they put on their sheep costumes and hide in their homes!!

[CFW]

So, I guess they didn’t think they would ever have to pay? And, they might be right. However, they could have paid voluntarily even though there was a moratorium.

Or, they could have put the money in savings so they would have a sizable amount in which to offer their landlord in order to negotiate a new lease. But to just assume that they would never have to pay certainly takes a special kind of stupid. Even if they had a reduced income over the past couple of years, most landlords would have been willing to work with them in some way in order to have at least a portion of the rent coming in during the moratorium. Now they will have a record as a renter dead-beat and will have a harder time finding a place to live.

[Nifster]

Then I want a different house

Bwahahahaha

[Gaffer]

Boiled cabbage, gin and farts will make a tight pantsuit unbearable....

[zeugma]

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.

Hire some thugs to beat him/her senseless once a month.

[zeugma]

The biggest challenge with the comparison is STANDING.

Indeed. That's one of the biggest scams the court uses to avoid hearing cases. That, and 'ripeness'.