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Out of fairness then, how about a credit to those who struggled and made it a priority to still make rent every month?
by danboarder 5y ago
Out of fairness then, how about a credit to those who struggled and made it a priority to still make rent every month?
- analyst74 5y agoThe primary goal of this is to make landlords whole, not to help renters.
- geoduck14 5y agoThe primary goal is for Newsome to get reelected
- rektide 5y agothe owners must always be made their dues. such must be done.
- deep-root 5y agoSeems like an especially poor way to get votes based on California demographics[1], and how divisive perceived "handouts" are politically. Poverty-line renters are most likely pro-Newsome or unregistered, and too few Rep landlords to convert with this $Bn rent subsidy. [1] https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-likely-voters/ https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-likely-voters/
- bejelentkezni 5y agoI think that even if this were about renters and not landlords that would never happen due to being so much harder to measure. Investigating who really struggled and who was fine or who gamed the system and who really couldn't pay would probably end up costing more than it was supposed to save people even ignoring how it's paid for out of federal debt if I'm reading the article right. All that said I think if any state really wanted to help renters they'd make real renting illegal and mandate all the contracts change to lease agreements. Nobody likes to pay their landlord's mortgage, that's not fair whether you made rent payments a priority or not. But seeing as big landowners and politicians always seem to be buddies that's about as likely as as what you originally proposed so I digress.
- Afforess 5y agoCrabs in a bucket mentality. Pull down others because you didn't benefit too. How about compassion?
- esyir 5y agoHow about incentives. Incentivizing bad behaviour for a feel good doesn't tend to end well.
- Afforess 5y agoa one off jubilee does not create an expectation or incentive. the pandemic was (hopefully) a once in a lifetime event.
- computerphage 5y agoSo was the 2008 crash, so was the 2001 crash, so was the...
- DoreenMichele 5y agoWhat bad behavior do you think is being incentivized here?
- djbebs 5y agoNot paying what you owe.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoSo some significant portion of the US ended up unemployed due to pandemic restrictions in order to protect the rest of the US from infection and we had a moratorium on evictions in order to protect the rest of the US from people ending up homeless, with covid and also not bathing and the like and now they owe multiple months worth of rent in a state where rent trends very expensive, but you are just going to tell me they are "bums" who simply don't want to pay their bills? wut?