Posted on 05/20/2021 8:52:14 AM PDT by JV3MRC
There’s an epidemic of abysmal job growth, gas shortages, government money everywhere and spiking inflation. But CBS appeared more upset that landlords were desperate to pay their bills in a recent broadcast.
CBS Evening News whined over the “epidemic of evictions” during its May 19 episode. The network ran a chyron for 154 seconds that propagandized how “Tenants Facing Eviction Place Last Hope In Court Hearings.” CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca’s segment on evictions repudiated how landlords “filed over 300,000 evictions during the pandemic,” despite a federal ban. Villafranca specifically targeted evictions in Texas, and complained that the state has only doled out "just over" $112 million in “rental assistance” money, despite more than $1 billion in its coffers. Villafranca argued as if the taxpayer-funded “rental assistance” money grew on trees.
Villafranca and CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell did not mention the economic plight currently facing landlords struggling to make ends meet during the segment. For context, CNN ran a February story headlined, “Unpaid rent is piling up. Landlords can’t hold on forever.” CBS’s entire anti-landlord segment lasted 164 seconds.
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Their whining is irrelevant to what is happening and will continue to happen on the ground. Looks at all that free money Joe has been handing out has gone to Drugs, Big Gulps and Beer rather than rent.
One is chronically late but he does pay.
I know some small landlords who have tenants who have not paid them a cent even through their income was not in any way effected by the shutdown.
The government did not have the right to invalidate the contract between a renter and the owner. It unilaterally block owners from receiving that which they had a right to, in a legal, valid contract.
The government acted criminally. Unfortunately there is no higher authority on this planet which can throw all the politicians in jail. They make the laws and they violate the laws.
The owners retained the obligation to provide a safe place, without being paid. This is forced servitude, and that is illegal.
I don’t care which level of government made this decision. It was wrong.
The underlying reason is the statists are moving us toward communism, in which all property is owned by the state.
That should teach them about taking advantage of folks who rent fro.......... Hey, wait a minute. 😕🐂💨💩
This is already the case. You are merely a caretaker of property. You cannot do much without asking various local government offices for permission. Once you are forced to ask permission to do something on "your property", it no longer belongs to you.
I know some small landlords who have tenants who have not paid them a cent even through their income was not in any way effected by the shutdown.
I am sure they have an apartment full of new bling
If the government wants to pass a law banning evictions due to non-payment of rent, they must also include suspension of all taxes relating to the property (e.g., property taxes), refunding of all maintenance expenses and aid to mortgage repayments otherwise the bill becomes in effect, an unconstitutional violation of property rights.
There's a federal ban only on enforcing the evictions, not on beginning the eviction process with the courts. Besides, the federal ban is very likely unconstitutional.
No, there was plenty of federal money spent in rental assistance. That money did not go directly to the taxpayers (or tax-nonpayers as might be more likely the case) but to the states, who then distributed it to the landlords on behalf of renters who applied for the assistance.
The issue is really that there are so many people in default, and many of them did not even bother to apply for the assistance. Perhaps they thought the eviction ban would be permanent, or Biden would wipe out all their debt, or some other fantasy like that, I just don’t know.
Once you are forced to ask permission to do something on “your property”, it no longer belongs to you.
Yup, I’ve been battling a tree ordinance here. Most individuals in this community had the developer clear cut their lots. I thought a few trees here and there plus along the property lines were perfect. Time went on and the nice middle of property trees have become a nuisance or worse. One nuisance came down during a hurricane a few years ago and just missed taking out half our home but I could not remove it without cause before the storm.
We have no recourse except using a few railroad spikes and letting nature take its course. Irony is the ordinance was passed by those with the clear cut lots because they “like trees”.
“The government did not have the right to invalidate the contract...”
Sadly, the government doesn’t need rights when it has force.
And of course you still have to pay taxes on the property, do maintenance and when the restrictions are lifted the evictions will still take time.
Some of them will have been two years with no income from their properties. For small landlords with under four properties this can be devastating.
>>Looks at all that free money Joe has been handing out has gone to Drugs, Big Gulps and Beer rather than rent.
“That’s MY money, and besides the media was saying it was ok, didn’t have to pay rent!” < /s >
The landlords who were mandated to accept this situation should include the tenants’ IOU with their county tax payments and indicate, “deduct this from moneys owned the State”.
Don’t want to hear it. The damned government is giving away money to everyone, how do these people not get the free money and then get the unemployment thousands per month to live on. Don’t understand all this we cannot afford to live in our appartment.
Government freebies don’t grow on trees? You get money, you get money and everyone but the middle class taxpayers get money.
And if I don’t fork over 4 months of income for my ever increasing property tax, the government will kick me out of “their” house that I built.
Do we get a one property tax holiday?
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