An Eviction Crisis Is Coming — We Need to Treat Housing as a Right

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Zzyzx_Road said:
Start with your local food banks. My largest donations this year have gone to them.
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Feeding America is a consortium of local food banks. Sometimes I go local, and sometimes I donate to Feeding America. I also like Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen. Catholic Charities, of course, and Catholic Relief Services.
 
PaulinVA said:
Feeding America is a consortium of local food banks. Sometimes I go local, and sometimes I donate to Feeding America. I also like Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen. Catholic Charities, of course, and Catholic Relief Services.
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I prefer local. More visibility and transparency with far less administrative overhead. My neighbors and all that goes with it.
 
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Ridgerunner said:
I have heard it said that pets, particularly cats, will leave dander behind that is almost impossible to get rid of. People with allergies react to it immediately upon entering a house or apartment where there have been pets even if there is no other sign of their having been there, and won’t rent no matter what.
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My husband and I own one rental house. We never planned on getting into the rental business. This house we bought for our daughter and her then spouse to “rent” from us Until they could qualify for the mortgage. Things happened and my daughter and spouse separated. She couldn’t afford the rent on her own so moved in with us and we decided to rent the property until her circumstances changed.

The house is a very desirable rental as it has five bedrooms and two baths with a large fenced in back yard. We use a property management firm and I made sure that dogs were allowed…even more than one. I, however, am very allergic to cats! I love them but their dander doesn’t love me! So, we had a no cats rule.

We, too, let the management know that if our renters had any problems with making payments during this pandemic, we’d be happy to work with them. They are great renters and we want to be great landlords. Fortunately, they are both still employed and have made all their payments on time.

We rented for many years early in our marriage. Trying to qualify for a mortgage takes time and savings…all in short supply when you’re in your 20’s. Taking away rental opportunities doesn’t solve that problem, it exacerbates it. Rental fees are almost always lower than mortgage payments. A large family with many children are delighted when they can find a fie bedroom home with large back yard that accepts dogs. We had so many applicants it made our head spin. The property manager even stated we could get a higher rent. Nope, I was pleased with the amount and when lease time is up I have no plans to up the amount. I’d rather our current renters stay as long as they need to and move when they are ready rather than making an extra hundred bucks a month.

Landlords that are only in the business of landlording and don’t care about their property or their tenets deserve any bad thing that happens to them. I have no problem with reasonable regulations to safeguard against those types of landlords. I even promote sensible regulation to protect tenets! No one should be evicted without a process and time for them to find other accommodations. Just as there are crappy landlords, there are crappy tenets, too.
 
PaulinVA said:
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That’s up to the voters, but a sales tax on real property to replace property tax eliminates government as the real owner.
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I don’t follow at all the idea of something being taxed means that the government “owns” it. Thats silly.
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Not so silly. What happens when a homeowner is unable to pay his or her property taxes? The property is confiscated and sold to cover the taxes, and the owner loses that property. In that sense, the government does own the property, as it is free to take it for nonpayment of taxes, and if the government didn’t own the property in any sense, it wouldn’t be able to do that.

And, unlike a mortgage or a car loan, which ceases to exist once it’s paid in full, property taxes are ongoing. There is no paying them off permanently. One can live in one’s home for fifty years and pay the property tax for forty-nine of those years, and in the fiftieth year, one is suddenly unable to pay the property tax, the county can still seize the property and throw the resident(s) out onto the streets. There’s no relief from property taxes, and no permanently satisfying them.
 
Saint Vincent dePaul Society is a good charity: They help people who are struggling and are staffed by volunteers, so overhead is low.
 
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But moving back to the subject of evictions; this won’t be a solution for all renters, to be sure, but I wonder if some couldn’t move back home and pay a bit of rent to a relative?
Multigeneration households were the norm, not too many generations ago, and can promote stability in families and the broader community.
 
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Family members have told me I could move in with them and pay a bit of rent to them while trying to find another job.

Luckily, I live in a place with a low cost of living , I have no debt, and I have enough savings to help me live for a year with no income source.

I am hoping and praying that I find a good job before the year is over.
 
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It’s such a blessing to know that that family support is out there, even if you don’t need to access it.
 
Regular_Atheist said:
Sorry if that seemed a little convoluted, I just didn’t accept the premise of the question. I am a Marxist, essentially.
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I tried reading Marx and found him extremely tedious, basically unreadable.

However, I do know several people who lived under Marxism (in USSR while it actually existed) - this includes two of my teachers - and without an exception they take the view that Marxism is stupid and Marxists are idiots.

So far I have seen no reason to reject or even question their lived experience.
 
stacie said:
However, I do know several people who lived under Marxism (in USSR while it actually existed) - this includes two of my teachers - and without an exception they take the view that Marxism is stupid and Marxists are idiots.

So far I have seen no reason to reject or even question their lived experience.
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There are about 100 million reasons, citizens murdered, to reject Marxism.
 
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