Posted on 12/23/2023 5:40:02 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
We all deserve a place where we can hug our loved ones, cook, bathe, make memories, tuck our children into bed at night, and live without fear — a home. Currently in Colorado, a stable home is out of reach for people evicted by landlords without reason. As a result, each year, thousands of families facing eviction across our state are launched into a cycle of temporary housing or homelessness.
A recent point-in-time (PIT) Count conducted by the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative found the top self-reported cause of homelessness in Denver is an inability to pay rent. The number two cause is eviction.
The most immediate and devastating consequence of an eviction is a family’s loss of stable housing. Families evicted from their housing are more likely to experience first-time homelessness. As a result, it is harder for them to find or keep a job, and their chances of being institutionalized, incarcerated or visiting the emergency room dramatically increase. Even worse, children in displaced households experience poor health, developmental delays, food insecurity and inadequate care.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradopolitics.com ...
“Without reason”? Failure to pay rent is a reason - the main reason people get evicted…
Message to landlords — “You will own nothing. And you will be happy.”
“a stable home is out of reach for people evicted by landlords without reason”
“A recent point-in-time (PIT) Count conducted by the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative found the top self-reported cause of homelessness in Denver is an inability to pay rent.”
Ding ding ding
I think we found the reason
You may “deserve” it, but you still need to earn it and pay for it…..anything else is welfare
I think each employee of the ‘Colorado Politics” website should convert one room of their house or apartment into a separate rental unit.
Rent that unit out. But no background checks, please! That would be unfair and unjust. Then good luck trying to evict destructive people, drug users, noisy drunks, etc.
Notice they didn’t say “We will pay your rent” which means rentals will plummet, leaving people homeless. We already have people crying here because they can’t find a rental they can afford because so many people just quit paying rent.
“Without reason” — sure, evil Snidely Whiplash landlords are in the habit of tossing good, paying people out of their apartment te for no reason at all.
What a load of hornswoggle.
Do the liberals truly want all landlords to sell their properties and have NO rental units available at all? Because that is the logical next step for landlords. Hundreds of thousands of empty apartments owned by the banks because nobody will buy them, squatters moving in and destroying them.
It is so easy to forecast what will happen.
The culture of Colorado has changed. Recently I watched as young people with back packs, loaded up what they needed for the day and walked out the front door and never paid. When I asked to use the restroom, they said it was closed. (Too many homeless people coming in to take their morning dump). The people who designed living standards in Colorado, are the same ones that designed San Francisco. Get USED to it. Live with it.
What a pant load this article is. No landlord anywhere can evict a tenant for no reason. Neither does any landlord want to fail to renew a lease at the end of its term if the tenant has been a good tenant. Between lost rents, repairs and commissions it costs landlords thousands of dollars to get a new tenant.
“We all deserve a place where we can hug our loved ones, cook, bathe, make memories, tuck our children into bed at night, and live without fear — a home.”
The first statement is a lie.
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““Without reason”? Failure to pay rent is a reason - the main reason people get evicted…”
Lol, I almost spit my coffee when I read that in the article. It is incredible that someone could even utter that stupidity and not understand the obvious. It is like claiming the major cause of sunshine is the sun.
exactly, this is just an attempt to make it harder to evict a renter for non-payment of rent, because now it will have to be fought over in the courts while they sit in your property paying nothing for months.
I own (and FRequently wear) a t-shirt with a Ronald Reagan quote on it:
“The best social program is a job!”
Speaking as a landlord, I don’t think landlords routinely evict people without cause. Complete BS.
ColoradoCommunust.Com
claims what ?.
After the Covid eviction moratorium, I’m amazed that land lords are even still in business. At any moment, government can confiscate their property on a whim. Prediction: housing shortage ahead.
The solution to homelessness is to create more homelessness, like the solution to affordable housing shortage is to punish landlords who provide low cost housing. Leftist logic is contrarian and anti-reason, and they’re totally immune to facts. Ultimately they have to rely on force, and when that fails, they can compel acceptance of what is clearly a lie; 2 + 2 = 5. The whole system makes sense in a twisted, perverse way. And it is supremely evil.
This is why I’m glad I have a car and friends. Room rates are beyond my social security monies
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