[karpov]

So deadbeats can skip paying rent in the winter? Landlords still need to pay their mortgages, property taxes, and utility bills in the winter.

[goldstategop]

Why not just make it free? Skip the winter exemption malarkey.

[bkopto]

Councilmember Kshama Sawant (D), who sponsored the legislation

This gal is a communist.

You have to out of your mind to be a landlord in King County.

[JayNorth]

So deadbeats can skip paying rent in the winter?

Back when I owned income property in California you could not evict someone if they were "sick". While researching a potential eviction (that didn't come to fruition) my attorney told me the standard for being "sick" was fairly low and I could count on a year or longer to get my house back in whatever condition they left it.

I imagine the laws have probably gotten worse since then. I sold my last California property in 1995.

[John123]

Her office has said she has reservations about the potential cost of likely legal challenges to the bill.

No kidding. I have a condo in Seattle and lease it out. And I pay taxes at the same time. It is just wrong for me to be on both sides of a legal battle. My taxes are paying for the defense of "feel good" but in no uncertain terms... "against all logic"... rental laws. For years... the rental market was very weak... everybody had homes and the rent was under-priced. And now the rental market is stronger... and it is a crime for landlords to seek better market pricing on their investment? If you screw around with the rental market... you are going to get NO MARKET as I'll sell my condo and there is one less unit that can be rented.

[TheBattman]

Deadbeat Tennant: good for you

Landlord/Property Owner: Screw You!

[TheBattman]

Sawant said that she thought that winter evictions were "cruel," and that they disproportionately effect people of color and women, according to the Seattle news source.

Don't you just love it when they squeeze that in to their claims (which are totally false). Disproportionate would imply that landlords exercise bias in WHO they evict.

The reality is - it would be nigh impossible to find a case where a landlord evicts a "person of color" and ignores a white tenant under otherwise exactly the same non-payment situation.

Here's an idea - PAY YOUR DANGED RENT!

[bkopto]

people of color and women

Ahhh, yes - the ol' get-out-of-jail-free throwaway line that justifies anything and everything.

[SaxxonWoods]

Hey, I should let my millionaire brother know. He rents in Seattle, says the housing is too expensive. Now he can stop paying rent until spring.

[catnipman]

Seattle is determined to eliminate rental housing all together ...

[lepton]

Sawant said that she thought that winter evictions were “cruel,” and that they disproportionately effect people of color and women, according to the Seattle news source.

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So, it is wrong to evict people, who were lawfully and consensually allowed to inhabit a place, during mildly inhospitable conditions? Hmmmm. Where have we heard the opposite even during drastically inhospitable conditions?

[bgill]

Cool, 3 months free rent.

Landlords should be rushing to raise the rent for the other 9 months.

[I want the USA back]

They hate private property and are doing all they can to eliminate it. They can’t seize it just yet, so they take it a little at a time.

[OldSmaj]

Councilmember Kshama Sawant (D), who sponsored the legislation

This idiot is an Indian emigre, not native born and a member of the Socialist Alternative party or some such crap.

From her Wikipedia account:

After moving to the United States, she was shocked by the level of poverty...

Apparently, she did not get her glasses until she came to the US, either, or perhaps there is no poverty in Mumbai, where she grew up or it could be that she is just too damned stupid to realize that the level of so-called poverty in the US exceeds what the bottom rung of the social levels in India receive by probably 300%.

Read her Wiki account.

A perfect example of the foreign invasion that we have had going on for the last 30 years or so.

Thank God this bitch cannot qualify for the Presidency.

Why the hell do we allow this sort of trash to park themselves in our country, much less allow them citizenship?

[Svartalfiar]

Her office has said she has reservations about the potential cost of likely legal challenges to the bill.

What about the costs of rent? If you know you're gonna be evicted, but are definitely safe until march 1st, how many of these people do you think will just skip the three free months of rent? Most of them are likely getting evicted for not paying rent as it is! So, since the city is the one requiring the complex to house them, shouldn't the city be responsible for paying the rent, if the soon-to-be-evictee doesn't?