Posted on 09/21/2021 6:04:04 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., hope to bring back the COVID-era eviction moratorium, a move property owners continue to oppose.
“An extremist Supreme Court cut short eviction protections and put millions of people at risk for losing their homes,” Warren said in front of the White House Tuesday. “Forcing tens of thousands of people out of their homes will only make this public health crisis worse as (the delta variant) surges.”
The Supreme Court struck down the federal eviction moratorium late last month, arguing that the Department of Health and Human Services lacked the authority to implement eviction moratoriums and that Congress had to specifically authorize it.
The bill, titled the “Keeping Renters Safe Act of 2021,” would also implement an automatic eviction moratorium that would not require renters to apply, an issue Massachusetts renters and landlords have struggled with, and would remain in effect until 60 days after the end of the public health emergency.
But landlords, who have long opposed the moratorium, said it would only saddle renters with debt they can’t pay.
“Instead of responsibly addressing the crisis at hand, moratoriums leave renters strapped with insurmountable debt and housing providers left to unfairly hold the bag,” said Greg Brown, a senior vice president for government affairs at the National Apartment Association. “Ultimately, any effort to pursue additional moratoriums will only balloon the nation’s rental debt … and exacerbate the housing affordability crisis, permanently jeopardizing the availability of safe and affordable housing.”
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So far they have done it with food, healthcare, education, telecommunications, and soon to be a roof over your head.
Well, at least they are going to force a vote on it rather then crying about those meanies in the supreme court not doing their bidding.
What legal authority do they have to do this? Can’t every landlord now sue for a taking?
Boston has a serious tent-city problem that’s not being reported.
Boston has had a “rent control” problem for 50 years. Buying property to rent out in Boston is f’n stupid as the day is long.
Dood, we may all end up in a place like that :-/
You will have nothing and you will be happy....
No, I won’t be.
Things are getting so troubling that I have been looking around for a place to escape to... I considered Israel but things are not going that well there either.
I was planning on going to look at a small apartment building I was considering...this gives me pause. I thought this crap was over after the SCOTUS spoke...
I hold the mortgage on a small ranch out west that belonged to the family... I was worried about the payments when it became impossible to foreclose but the purchasers never missed a payment... I was lucky. It is in New Mexico about 10mi from White Sands Missile Base...
...but not for not paying the rent
Obviously trying to squeeze the middle class and transfer ownership of these homes to BANKS, as any true moratorium would mean the homeowners don’t have to pay the BANKS their mortgages on the homes with squatters in them.
You couldn’t pay me to rent in Boston.
Landlords need to sue the banks en masse and hope the courts rule for them.
If the government makes me quarter a bum in my 2nd St. house in which I don’t live, why would it be any different for the government to make me quarter a bum in my 1st St. house in which I do live?
If this were to go through, it would literally allow the government to force collectivization.
It would literally be the end to personal property.
These people are literally—i.e., there is NO hyperbole, here—voting for communism.
It’s inarguable. These lawmakers are introducing a bill to officially transform America to communism.
AS every able body citizen is part of the militia, the 3rd amendment states the government is forbidden to quarter them in some ones home
I thought about the 3rd Amendment. I like your take, and I just hope SCOTUS would share your view that every able body citizen is part of the militia. I’ll take comfort where I can find it.
P.S. I don’t think this proposed bill will ever become upheld law, so I don’t fear an immediate boot dropping. But it scares me to see how simple it would be to politely introduce a communist revolution on the floors of Congress.
It will not lead to conviction in the Senate but maybe it can neuter dementia Joe for awhile.
It will not lead to conviction in the Senate but maybe it can neuter dementia Joe for awhile.
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