Just last week, American Thinker published Anony Mee’s essay about Ilhan Omar’s draft bill, H.R. 1847, which is meant to throw landlords to the wolves, at which point the government will essentially take over rental property in America. As the Albert’s nightmare shows, once you have leftists in charge, anyone who is occupying a property, whether they’re renting or squatting, is treated as a tenant. The California model will become the national system if Omar’s bill becomes law.
And if you’re a tenant and think, “Well, this might be good for me,” disabuse yourself of that notion. Two things happen when the government takes control of rental properties through overwhelmingly pro-tenant laws. First, the amount of available housing stock shrinks because there is no incentive for anyone to become a landlord.
Second, those properties that do remain on the market are invariably in horrific condition. This is because (a) there’s heavy competition for the few available properties so there’s no incentive for landlords to improve the property and (b) because landlords are subject to rent control and may find it almost impossible to evict people for non-payment, they don’t have funds for property improvements.
It gets worse when the government is the landlord. Just think of every horrible housing project or Section H community built in America in the 1960s and 1970s. Every one of them became a crime-ridden hellhole.
No matter where you live, even if your representative is a Republican, you must speak up about H.R. 1847, to make very sure it doesn’t pass. Remember: Republicans tend to be squishes and their leftist colleagues can bully them into voting for stupid things. You need to get there first.
Did they ever vote for a democrat? If so, who cares? I hope they lose everything and are imprisoned by the government they voted for.
If not, they’ve my sincere sympathy.
If .gov wants to emulate Cuba, then I say go right on ahead and do it.
I doubt our buildings hold up any better.
Democrat Marxists taking private property for the state, it's what they do.
I also doubt Californians voted these people in.
The other thing dems do, is steal elections.