The rental assistance money can’t be had by the landlord unless the tenant cooperates and can prove they lost income. However the tenants know they can just do nothing and stay in place. The landlord can’t prove anything. The landlord can’t even know or prove the income of the tenant. The whole rental assistance thing is just a trick to make it look like the government is paying the landlords. The truth is that most landlords can’t get the money because of the tenant.
So the landlord has to pay a lawyer maybe $1000 to get in court and somehow prove the tenant’s income has been reduced due to covid. How exactly does that work? And the tenant will just cry that covid killed there income and the judge will then throw out the eviction. There goes $1000 dollars down the drain for a tenant who is not paying the rent. The lawyers no longer even want to touch evictions because they can’t win.
These liberal politicians are pure evil scum.
What should be done, (I haven’t fleshed this all the way out so your thoughts are welcome), is there should not be a moratorium on evictions. Instead the law should say that the eviction case may continue and the hearing judge would require the tenant to provide his evidence that he/she could not pay the rent.
That would include pay stubs, bank account statements, savings and investment accounts, etc. The judge would then make a ruling on whether the tenant was able to pay all of the monthly rent payments or a portion of the payments due based on the facts presented.
Once the decision is made that the tenant could not make the payment the court would order the tenant to apply for the rental assistance.
Alternatively the state could place a certain amount of funds in an escrow type account and allow the judge to order the past due rent to be paid to the landlord from this account with the tenant being responsible to repay the state over a 3-5 year period, (it’s a loan, not a gift).
If the judge determines that the tenant could/should have been making timely rental payments but did not for unreasonable reasons then the judge can order the eviction immediately and order payment of the delinquent amount of rent or award the past due rent to be paid from the above fund with the tenant being obligated to repay the state, (treated like a fine).
Like I said, it has not been fleshed out but it would be workable.
Yep. It’s similar to fathers in family court. The lawyers will take on the case knowing full well that they will lose but will take the dad’s money anyway to try and enforce the most basic of so-called court ordered rights (parental time aka visitation, say so over their own children’s schooling, medical, etc) once the mom starts her state sponsored alienation tactics and wallet grab.
Meanwhile the local “child” support agencies get fed kickbacks for highest CS amount ordered and collected. No accountability over what it should be spent on by the biomoms.
Flame suit ON I say this as a once divorced mom who didn’t rake my ex husband over the coals or do an emotional blackmail number.