These types of threads always amuse me because half the comments reflect and endorse a majoritarian dictatorial view from alleged conservatives.
If we allow government to become the master of the house, the food, the travel or anything else we do, then the appointed custodians of the majoritarian dictatorship can make whatever rules they want. Letting government in the housing business in the first place was the error. Picking and choosing what rules government then makes about housing compounds the error.
Crusaders gave us prohibition, and other crusaders gave us an income tax arguing that it would be small and only the rich would pay it. Crusaders want limits on guns, sodas and alcohol but will allow other forms of behavior that are destructive because they can get majoritarian approval.
The self-righteous won’t stop until everyone behaves the way they insist, and if means government tyranny and poking its nose where it doesn’t belong, so what. Getting one’s way to make people do something for their own good is more important than stupid ideas like “liberty” where people can eat, smoke and drink as they please. Let’s have more government so we can make that argument. /sarc
Banning smoking in subsidized housing could save half a billion dollars a year