Just wait till the government tells us you MUST rent out an empty room for section 8 housing.
I like to bring this up from time to time: In the 60’s my parents were trying to rent our house prior to our move to Seattle. One day they left the house and told me (I had just finished the 6th grade) that if anyone called about the house that “sounded black”, tell them it was rented.
I actually had the presence of mind to ask my dad why, and this is what he said, and I paraphrase: If we rent to white people and they are deadbeats, we can kick them out. If we rent to blacks and they are deadbeats, we’ll be stuck with them for a long time.
That was the day I realized that our “well meaning” anti-discrimination laws hurt the very people the purport to help. Of course, as life went on, I learned I only scratched the surface of the insidiousness of such laws and their generational effect on the people they claim to help.
The response will be ‘sorry, the inn is already full’. I used to live in an apartment complex that provided Section 8 housing. I didn’t know it when I moved in, and the apartment complex is not going to advertise the fact that there are a bunch of subsidized folks in the apartments all around you. It first dawned on me when one of my neighbors said what they paid for rent. I also noticed an abnormal amount of crime in the area and that most of my neighbors were not going to work, despite being young and able bodied. I moved out when the landlord would not perform necessary maintenance in a timely manner. One of the best moves I have ever made.
Read Ayn Rand’s “We The Living”. That is exactly what happened in the old USSR. The government decided how much “space” was appropriate for you.
“Just wait till the government tells us you MUST rent out an empty room for section 8 housing.”
That kind of thinking is actually happening in the UK where some leftists are proposing that older people with relatively large homes should be forced to let out their extra rooms or that their homes should be seized outright and given to the poor.
Oh that room? That’s where I keep my pet rattle snake. He seldom bites but he does seem attracted to you!