Posted on 03/02/2019 7:20:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Oregon is the first state in the nation with statewide rent control.
Gov. Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 608 into law Thursday. It takes effect immediately.
Brown called the legislation a groundbreaking, bold start.
“(This) will provide immediate relief to Oregonians struggling to keep up with rising rents and a tight rental market, but it doesn’t work on its own,” the governor said. “It’s going to take much more work to ensure that every Oregonian in our communities large and small have access to housing choices.”
(Excerpt) Read more at opb.org ...
Los Angeles homeless 2.0 in the rain.
Thank you very much for the correction.
In May 2016, Brown took a six-day vacation to Palm Springs, California. So, she has been there....
Leftists claim that "health care" - sometimes framed as "access to health care" ("access to" = "free") - is a "right."
I can go several weeks, maybe even months or years, without health care, but wouldn't last one week in wintery N. Dakota without housing.
Ergo (Leftist reasoning): "Housing" must be even more a "right."
Seriously: We Conservatives ought to insist that the "right to housing" be reformulated as the "right to force other people to purchase materials and build dwellings for ne'er-do-wells."
The "right to health care" could analogously be described as the "right to compel other people to undergo years of expensive training in order to provide unpaid services to ne'er-do-wells."
Regards,
So-called “refugees” in mother-in-law cottages in every back yard?
Were I an owner of a rental unit in Oregon, I wouldn’t put a dime into anything I owned. I would bleed it to recoup my costs and then just walk away.
Great way to destroy real estate development and renewal of the housing stock...
You are BLESSED to have a home in Carmel.
Look at the bright side of evil. Big cities destroy the 2D highway system with their rampant 3D concentrated, sardine can apartments. Rent control attacks closet high rise apartments, while easing up the highways.
Mankind was meant to live on land, not on concrete and fake trees.
You all have seen it. Drive along the slow narrow highway and along the road are high dense, high rise apartments, who clog the highways.
Rent Control is the only good socialist policy that frees up highways. Builders and tenants do not pay their fair share for highways.
I always proposed the progressive tax on level two and up apartments. Let them pay for ruining your city.
Rent Control is a great thing. Just own a home, and avoid rentals. Now that is good economics.
Rent control is only bad if you refuse to join society and avoid your responsibility to be a property owner.
Life, liberty and PROPERTY, not fuzzy feel good pursuit of happy.
I think you softly reply “Venezuela...Venezuela and keep repeating it as you turn and walk away....if they try to hinder you well...let one’s level of tolerance vs self defence dictate one’s next actions as you continue to try to walk away!
Now for the Law of Unintended Consequences to kick in.
Rent Control = Fascism
Minimum wage = Fascism
Etc.
Which side is fascist?
It’s my understanding the individual states had a system very much like the national Electoral College until it was struck down by SCOTUS in the 1960s. In that way the large cities couldn’t dominate the rural counties.
Even those of us who have learned from history are being made to suffer, because of those who refuse to recognize it.
“Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-07/rent-control-needs-retirement-not-a-comeback
Exactly. The rights laid out in the American Experiment are largely, for the most part, rights that don’t require someone else to perform. The right of free speech or self defense or freedom to assemble or worship etc. Some are just rights inherent to being human.
Leftists are clever. They will talk about “human rights” but what they don’t talk about is the sleight-of-hand going on here - Individual rights. In the leftist weltanschaung one is nothing unless part of a group, a “victimized” group. They also talk about minority rights, but again there is no greater minority than a single individual.
A “right” to health care sounds good. But it does require someone else to provide that. It requires money. It requires someone to allocate resources, as they are not infinite.
Price controls do not work. Whether minimum wage, subsidized fuel, doesn’t matter. While the alternative is not perfect, the leftist philosophy ever and always leaves complete destruction in its wake while enriching a small band of advocates and strongmen.
As has been said “You can vote Socialism in, but you have to shoot your way out.” Very sad.
“Were I an owner of a rental unit in Oregon, I wouldn’t put a dime into anything I owned.”
When your tenants complain to the government, you’ll be fined until you comply or the government has so many liens on the property it becomes theirs.
Rent control is disastrous (doesn’t work here in the NJ towns that have it); I guess it is the next step in “stabilizing neighborhoods” when the old method - home ownership - is going the way of the dodo. Municipal and state government in socialist dumps have to stop the flight not just of wealth in terms of employers, but their workers as well - and this would fit with that policy (moving would require rent calculations that wouldn’t be so skewed if your rent wasn’t artificially held down in a dying, expensive area). Just a massive government intrusion in the same vein as the healthcare, education, affirmative action quotas in hiring, etc. - screwing with supply-and-demand dynamics.
Besides the impact on landlords, how much is anyone going to invest in a brick-and-mortar building (home or business) if rent-controlled gibsmedats are on the same block/in the same neighborhood? NYC was in the news a couple of weeks ago because they were re-directing their parasite class to Newark NJ; it probably would’ve been unnoticed but the new digs were deteriorating dumps, and the media got involved (now this new victim class has a name: “forgotten families”). You know access to work isn’t one of the criterion when you move people like that...
Such legislation ALWAYS causes a shortage. Landlords will 1031 to somewhere else that has higher returns. Investors will not create additional rental housing as uncertainty of dealing with both tenants and government is not a good investment.
That's what I mean about walking away. Run it into the ground, when there's nothing left, walk away and let the city/state take it and be OUT OF OREGON before that happens.
Pendleton? I was born in Pendleton in 1950, we actually lived in Weston.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.