Posted on 07/26/2024 12:12:20 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
BRIGHTON, N.Y. — A new program in Brighton hopes to help stabilize folks in poverty. The Brighton Landlord Tenant Project will connect pro-bono lawyers with people facing evictions. Forty-two percent of people in Brighton are renters. Town Supervisor Bill Moehle says the goal here is to tackle systemic poverty and stop people who are in a bad situation from making it worse.
This program is run by the local nonprofit Just Cause. When you show up in Brighton Town Court a volunteer lawyer will be there, offering to help you with your eviction case.
Most of the time they don’t fight to keep you in that home forever. Instead, they come to settlements with your landlord’s lawyers to stop the eviction and give you time to figure out a new place to live.
The program will also screen tenants for social services like rental assistance, or SNAP benefits. The goal with all this is stabilization.
Moehle says before he was town supervisor, he practiced law and volunteered with Just Cause for several cases.
“A courtroom is an intimidating place, there’s shame involved. So having an attorney there really helps ease some of that burden that otherwise you know the person whose name is on the lease is facing by themselves,” said Bill Moehle, Brighton Town Supervisor.
“Even if we aren’t able to prevent someone from having to move, we are preventing someone from having an eviction on their record so that they will not be able to find another place to live and we are also helping people to stay where they are as long as possible,” said Tina Foster, executive director of Just Cause.
Moehle says this program doesn’t cost Brighton taxpayers anything, because the lawyers volunteer their time. Just Cause claims it can even save governments money in the long run because it helps prevent homelessness.
Other towns have similar programs.
Just Cause runs the program in Irondequoit, too. That’s been going on for several years. The program wants to expand to all towns but it’s just a matter of getting the staffing and grants to do so.”
Commies are looking to destroy owner investment by strangling them. Bastards are everywhere imbedded deep in the fabric
No one helped her and she sure as hell wasn't a slum landlord.
“stop people who are in a bad situation from making it worse.”
Some people just make repeated bad life decisions and frequently go from bad to worse. It’s human nature. Good luck fixing that.
Never be a landlord in NY. Everything is rigged against you. Even renting to relatives is risky. It’s best to just sell the property and exit the rental business until the state becomes less hostile toward landlords. That may not occur in my lifetime.
but if they truly wanted to help poor people afford homes and rent you would think they would come up with ways to make it more affordable, not increase regulations that will drive up costs.
I personally think properties that cities seize that they usually auction off to investors on the court house steps should be only sold to first time home owners. That alone could put millions of people into homes they otherwise couldn’t afford.
Classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5cXg33vAk
'Rumble In Brighton' by Stray Cats
Well there's the Rockabilly cat's
With their pomps real high
Wearing black drape coat's, all real gone guys
The cool skinhead's with roll up jeans
Looking real tough and mighty mean
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Ringside seat's for the neighborhood fight
There ain't a goddamn thing that the cops can do
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
They sew fish hooks under their collars
Got razors in their shoes
"Go cat go" is their battle cry
World war three is starting to brew
Well, the skinheads all use black jacks
And they're looking mighty mean
They got chains wrapped around their fingers
And their heads are all shaven clean
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight
There ain't a goddamn thing that the cops can do
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Well there ain't a man left standing
So let's all go get a beer
No team is a winner
So we'll see you all next year
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight
There ain't a goddamn thing that the cops can do
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Rumble in Brighton tonight
Rumble on the beach tonight
Rumble in Brighton tonight
Rumble on the beach tonight
Well man there ain't a goddamn thing
That the cops can do
So line back up for a side line view
Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Increasing demand and reducing supply favors... ...landlords.
Landlords push for rent control to protect the value of their assets by forcing artificial demand. It also keeps new competitors out of the market since competitors can't finance new buildings with the rent so low.
Some individual landlords may get screwed but there is a cabal of landlords in that town who absolutely want to block any competition and keep their archaic dumps occupied.
Deep State understands economics just fine.
But Deep State doesn’t like competition.
Brighton is an upscale Jewish suburb of Rochester. I find it hard to believe 40% of the town are renters
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