Feels like we should be talking more about how untenable it is that many landlords right now are being used (at great personal expense) as a finger in the dam holding back a massive wave of potential newly homeless people and families.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1388989011704823809
“More than 8 million rental properties across the country are behind on payments by an average of $5,600, according to census data.”
“And now it had been a full year without payment, and Budhoo had maxed his credit cards, applied for a secondary loan on his 2015 Mercedes-Benz, defaulted on $13,000 in property taxes, and started taking medication for panic attacks and stomach ulcers.”
“He’d [tenant] worked a job ever since he turned 14...and somehow he’d found work again in the middle of the pandemic at another restaurant, but most of his paycheck went to a babysitter for his daughter, and eventually that restaurant closed down, too.”
Our current way of doing politics - picking one side and making them the good and righteous ones, while denigrating their opponents as evil - is going to be particularly bad and cruel for this issue.
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