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Indeed. The rhetoric says "evil landlords". The practice is more likely the low-hanging fruit. A bit like zero-tolerance policing: hits the human pawns and ordi
by triplesec 13y ago
Indeed. The rhetoric says "evil landlords". The practice is more likely the low-hanging fruit. A bit like zero-tolerance policing: hits the human pawns and ordinary people the hardest and the actual putative bad guys get a free pass, as usual.
- jtbigwoo 13y agoI hope there's a cost/benefit analysis here where the Attorney General's office hits those landlords above a certain number of nights. It wouldn't necessarily make economic sense to go after a guy renting out a single apartment.
- triplesec 13y agoUnfortunately, sense and rationality do not figure highly in the decisions of the big swinging dicks, especially when they want to get easy wins for election charts.