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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

This is the ONE. I have not admired Tom more than I do for this ONE.

TC, laid out the story for a TRAGIC OPERA SERIES,. It isn't only about LA, the Democratic candidate running for City Attorney or one of his favorite new toys, Elon Musk's Falcon 1 rocket. Think instead about urban planning, housing, homelessness, Otzoy’s Roomkey site...maybe when you are done reading this opus, you will marvel that TC controlled spraying the entire space with expletives.

This is the story of THE UNHOUSED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. It is the story of how complicated torture is for innocent human beings. It's the story of how government wounds people relentlessly without the use of bullets.

I wish to pay tribute to TC for piloting the course of misery taken by UNHOUSED Americans today and tomorrow ….

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Jeff Carpenter's avatar

in Philadelphia, there’s not only a problem for tenants, there’s also an incapacitating problem for landlords. Since the lockdown in March 2020, landlords were not allowed to evict any tenant, so tenants have had a free pass to pay no rent, while the landlords’ bills keep piling up. On top of that, the city passed a law saying that every case of bedbugs was the landlord's responsibility, for all the damages to the tenant, unless the landlord could prove the tenant brought the infestation with them, which no landlord has ever been able to prove. The newest law prohibits landlords from denying housing based on eviction records, nor can they deny a tenant solely because of credit scores or an eviction record that is more than four years old. They also prohibit denying a tenant housing because of their inability to pay rent or utility bills during the COVID-19 emergency period. So what’s left? Landlords are required to let tenants know another reason why they are denied.

The upshot is that the “good” landlords are selling out of the business, and the out-of-state hedge-fund landlords are buying in, with their ruthless tactics that prompted the city council to write the new laws in the first place.

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