My wife and I were selected for the City of Los Angeles’ Emergency Rental Assistance Program. I provided all necessary documents & assumed we were good to go for September. Just found out TODAY we’re ineligible bc my corporate landlord can simply OPT OUT of the program. Unreal.
For some godforsaken reason, sending a cash payment to the tenant is not an option under the ERAS program, so tenants are completely at the mercy of their landlord. And my corporate landlord, Excel Residential Services, is as cruel and sociopathic and you’d expect.
So now the rent we don’t have is due, and for over a month we’ve been under the impression that @LACity was going to pay it.
This amount of disdain this shithole country has for its poorest citizens will never cease to amaze me.
This amount of disdain this shithole country has for its poorest citizens will never cease to amaze me.
Basically the entire program was another neoliberal sham: a landlord bailout program that they could easily opt-out of if they simply didn’t want to accept the basic tentant protections that came with it. And our landlord is far more interested in evicting us than accepting them.
So
Fuck you @MayorOfLA.
Fuck you @LACity.
Fuck every member of our bought-and-paid-for city council, including our councilman @MitchOFarrell.
Fuck congressional leadership (of both parties) for allowing PUA to expire.
And, most importantly, fuck you Excel Residential Services
Fuck you @MayorOfLA.
Fuck you @LACity.
Fuck every member of our bought-and-paid-for city council, including our councilman @MitchOFarrell.
Fuck congressional leadership (of both parties) for allowing PUA to expire.
And, most importantly, fuck you Excel Residential Services
To be clear: our landlord would have been paid the rent IN FULL by the City of LA w federal stimulus money by now. But they decided NO, they would rather evict us & profit off it. I want everyone who reads this to think very critically about the system that allows this to happen.
Fuck. I never wanted to do this. But
Cash App: $tarvingActor
Cash App: $tarvingActor
And also~ I actually know exactly why payments are made directly to landlords and not tenants. Because if they were, there’s a chance that money might go towards other bills or necessities and not in landlords’ bank accounts. Like I said, it’s a landlord bailout. Period.
Under every post about rent relief you’ll find the same bootlickers groaning about how LaNdLoRdS hAvE BiLLs tO pAy ToO. But my experience shows that for landlords it’s not just about paying bills; it’s about bleeding every single cent they can out of people to line their pockets.
Friends, comrades: Thank you! You don’t need to send us any more money. We now have almost exactly the amount we need for rent, and to rent it shall go. Your solidarity has filled a void left by the callousness of our blood-sucking landlord.
This spirit of mutual aid in the wake of unadulterated greed is a vision of the world I know we all want to create. I certainly do.
I’ve learned from this thread that sham “rental assistance” programs that landlords can easily opt out of are crushing tenants like my wife & me in states all over the country. I’d love for someone on the left with a large national platform to bring attention to this problem.
Lastly, I chose a profession that will either make you very rich or (more likely) very poor. I’m still the latter. But if the stars ever align, that perfect “troubled” and “edgy” series regular role comes along, and I’m able to make a good living doing what I love doing...
I will NEVER hesitate to help you, or anyone else in need, the way you’ve helped me over these past 24 hours. I promise you that.
Always in solidarity,
Always in solidarity,
