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Coronavirus Heroes Are Getting Tossed from Their Homes by Scared Landlords
- better0uts1d3 7y agoNo good reward goes unpunished
- torpfactory 7y agoMy wife is an ER nurse. One of her coworkers recently went through a nasty divorce. Yesterday her estranged husband filed paperwork to get full custody of their child on the grounds that her mother (an ER nurse) could not provide a safe environment due to exposure to CoVID19.
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- 101404 7y agoStrange argument, because children don't get Covid-19. They may carry the SarsCoV2 virus, but that's about all.
- RegnisGnaw 7y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/us/georgia-coronavirus-girl-hospitalized/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/us/georgia-coronavirus-girl-h... Here's a case of a 12 year old getting it.
- fishmaster 7y agoThis is false.
- bluntfang 7y agoland lords are bad. shelter is a human right, not an investment. "landlords are indignant because they thought they'd get all the perks of investing in a vital resource and none of the moral imperatives"
- honest_tovarich 7y agoLOL , you high, arent ya?
- GardenStick 7y agoShelter isn't a human right arguably. It is in the Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
- dangus 7y agoLandlords are not bad as a rule. They allow me to keep my assets diverse and my liabilities at minimum. Why would I want to own a home? I would be owning a single expensive asset that: - Cannot reasonably be relocated (wasting my time/life if I ever get a different job that's further away) - Cannot be liquidated without losing 6% of its value to REALTOR® fees and closing costs - Has its own value tied into other assets in its immediate geographical vicinity. If someone gets foreclosed next door, the value of my house drops instantly. - Needs to be insured because it's so fragile that a storm could completely destroy it. In a rental I essentially only need to insure against legal liability and stolen possessions (if that's even a concern). - Does not appreciate beyond inflation in the longest investment term - I don't actually own it anyway (property taxes, eminent domain) Renting minimizes risk and liability for the vast majority of typical people. I would argue that a lot of the doom and gloom articles talking about millennials being "unable to afford homes" are discounting how little home ownership ever made sense in the first place without artificial stimuli (like the G.I. Bill and various other home ownership encouragements).
- deanmoriarty 7y agoI say a loud "I don't care!". 1) Put a law that prevents people from owning more than one rental house 2) Watch the market price of real estate fall tremendously (good!!) 3) At that point it will become economically feasible for people like me to buy a condo in the Bay Area, like it should be: housing is a primary need, more so in a high cost of living area OR 1) Put a law that caps the maximum amount of rent you can charge to people, based on the bottom quartile of income for an area, or something like that 2) Watch the market price of real estate fall tremendously (good!!) I am sure my reasoning has tons of blind spots and it's probably "economically immature", but I don't care. I see rich people around me hoarding multiple multi-million dollar homes and starving the rental market, while they sit on property taxes significantly smaller than my rent. They are not providing a service to society, they are benefitting from wild speculation at the expense of other people. It shouldn't be allowed to do that, it's basic logic.
- mattkrause 7y agoAre these spur-of-the-moment evictions even legal? I thought it was usually a protracted process.
- ng12 7y agoYep. There is not a state in the US where a 24h eviction is legal without a court being involved.
- atonse 7y agoF*ck this landlord. Evictions in many states have been suspended. I hope they get their asses handed to them in court.
- volfied 7y agoYeah if the nurse was able to fight this in the court (that's the whole other problem, where will she find time / money to fight it during a pandemic), the landlord is in deep legal trouble, no?
- toomuchtodo 7y agoYes, but in the meantime, that nurse is homeless. These examples are when you need rapid community involvement to buffer until the justice system can step in (which has some latency). In the case of unlawful evictions, we have a network of people who will take someone in (as well as our family if we can) until an attorney friend (IANAL yet) can file suit against the landlord. Shelters can be suboptimal (and downright fraught with peril) depending on the location and their resources. Let us not forget these examples in the future of policy and social service gaps that need fixing.
- mullen 7y agoIf the renters have signed a contract, these quick evictions are not legal. Also, good luck trying to get a ER Nurse evicted from a residence during a pan-epidemic. If the ER Nurse at the beginning of the article wants to shutdown that eviction, just put the landlords name on the Internet and let the Internet take care of it.
- PenguinCoder 7y agoVigilante justice is not the answer.
- xemoka 7y agoBut public shaming is. Name names, find news outlets, post it online. This is unacceptable. There are repercussions for every action.
- GardenStick 7y agoThe landlord does have a valid health concern. Healthcare professionals have a astronomical risk associated with their job during this pandemic. It's not really the fault of any party it's just s* suck sometimes.