Or maybe they want the government to build blocks of Stalinesque apartment towers?
Posted on 07/22/2023 6:31:00 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
MONROE – A federal lawsuit filed by a group of landlords, including Pamela Lee, who own rental properties, says that a Monroe town law passed earlier this year is discriminatory against landlords and violates the federal Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit also alleges that families with more than two people cannot reside in a one-bedroom rental unit.
The lawsuit, filed by six LLCs that own rental properties and Pamela Lee, a member of all of the LLCs and owner of properties in Monroe personally, asserts that the town is attempting to prohibit them from enjoying their constitutional right by depriving them of property rights without due process.
The town law includes the following prohibitions that landlords claim are discriminatory:
It shall be unlawful for any one person or entity to own more than three residential rental properties within the Town of Monroe. It shall be unlawful for the occupancy of any one-bedroom to exceed two persons. It shall be unlawful for the owner or managing agent to allow for the parking of more than one commercial vehicle on the property. The property manager for the plaintiff LLCs, Timothy Mitt, told Mid-Hudson News that the number of rental properties under the new law seems arbitrary while noting that Town Supervisor Anthony Cardone owns three rental properties within the town borders.
The plaintiffs are seeking $7 million in damages because they say the town is preventing them from utilizing their properties for the purpose of renting them out to collect income.
I am familiar with that area. I’d have to do more research on this particular issue, but the statute in question seems like it’s exactly what I would expect in a small town fighting against an invasion of illegal aliens and “refugees.”
Or maybe they want the government to build blocks of Stalinesque apartment towers?
That looks like Cabrini Green.
Agree. I grew up in Orange County. Biden has been flying in refugees into what used to be Stewart AFB outside of Newburgh. Zoning is one defense against the invasion. Schools and hospitals are being overwhelmed. Local property taxes must fund the costs.
Yeah this won’t stop illegals.
Imagine:
The Stalin, Queen’s newest residential building, units starting at...
$200,000 perhaps?
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Queens-Village_NY
Ripped from the pages of Atlas Shrugged: the Equalization of Opportunity Act.
Some background:
The former Village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County officially split from Monroe, New York on New Year’s Day 2019, becoming the Town of Palm Tree, New York.
Kiryas Joel (Yiddish: קרית יואל, romanized: Kiryas Yoyel, Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈkɪr.jəs ˈjɔɪ.əl]; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jews who belong to the worldwide Satmar sect of Hasidism.
Kiryas Joel is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown New York Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the larger New York Combined Statistical Area.
According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, Kiryas Joel has by far the youngest median age population of any municipality in the United States,[3] and the youngest, at 13.2 years old, of any population center of over 5,000 residents in the United States.[4]
Residents of Kiryas Joel, like those of other Haredi and Orthodox Jewish communities, typically have large families, and this has driven rapid population growth.[5]
According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate in the nation. More than two-thirds of the residents live below the federal poverty line, and 40% receive food stamps.[6] It is also the place in the United States with the highest percentage of people who reported Hungarian ancestry, as 18.9% of the population reported Hungarian descent in 2000.[7]
In years past it used to be illegal to park marked commercial vehicles in a residentially zoned neighborhood in my Florida county.
I believe it still is.
In the Fort Myers area, people apply and remove magnetic labels to their vehicles on a work day basis.
In the UK, there is much opposition to people owning second homes.
In the US, there is much opposition to ‘Wall Street’ entities gobbling up houses.
That’s what I thought immediately when I saw the part concerning no more than 2 people in a one bedroom.
But I don’t get the ban on owning more than 3 rental properties.
A couple with a baby often have the baby in a crib IN their bedroom.
This is nuts.
Governments are going way outside their job description doing things they have no business doing
There are thousands of towns in America who are having this issue. Short term leasing and even long term leasing is a change in the way housing is used. And its a change in the local economics of every town.
The reality is that short term leasers normally come in and fix up the property. I know this doesn’t always happen. I have seen places in LA where they housed 12 people each with their own lease in a 2 bedroom range where even the garage was divided into three bedrooms. Normally the renters are illegals. paying cash by the week.
But the most common situation in most towns are AirB&Bs that sell weekends to tourists. Somebody comes in and rents for a couple nights a week. Which is enough to pay the property taxes and maybe the mortgage if there is one.
They are driving up property taxes because they are driving up property values. And that is where the profit is. Holding the land they are not looking for too much monthly profits. Many are just waiting for the land values to increase. Then sell the land a decade later for a lot more money.
If you want your house value to go up its great. In LA and San Francisco property values are still increasing as drug addicts and poop fill the streets. Same is true in Portland and Vancouver.
The issue is that these places need to be regulated. They need to be inspected. And they need to pay taxes. AirB7B does everything it can to help its renters hide from local governments. And often the local governments have people on the board who are AirB&B renters without disclosing it.
Large real estate companies can move in and buy up large numbers of houses and rent them out. Eventually, home ownership decreases along with a sense of community. Large numbers of rental properties affect insurance rates. Generally, rentals are not as well maintained as those with resident owners.
Landlords often make big profits off lousy housing units taxed way under the community average while single family resident homeowners pay far more than the community average in property tax on their houses.
i agree that a family of more than 2 can’t (shouldn’t)rent a 1 bedroom place. i’m so glad we sold our rental!
and a couple with a cousin often have the cousin on a couch.
and the another on the floor.
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