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Home Front: Politix
First step towards national rent control? Biden admin to mandate ‘fairness’
2023-01-26
[Hot Air] Inflation is eating citizens alive in these United States; nowhere are those numbers more obvious or egregiously out of whack than in the housing and rental industries. If you owned your home already, you’re in the catbird’s seat. If you just bought one, or are trying to in an unbelievably tight market, you know what I’m talking about. Also, if you just bought one, but overpaid because of the tight market, and are watching values start to drop because of interest rates climbing, you’re not really happy.

If you’ve been renting, especially a single-family house vice an apartment, you’ve been on pins and needles the entire time, not knowing if it would be sold out from under you if the owner decides to cash in on good times, vice continues to deal with tenants. Almost every aspect has been fraught with anxiety for all concerned.

A good portion of this is attributable to measures taken (with questionable authority) by the Centers for Disease Control. In an unprecedented order on 1 September 2020, the CDC brought an immediate — and "temporary" — halt in residential evictions to "prevent the further spread of COVID-19." Congress and then the Biden administration extended that order through various incarnations for another year, claiming a surge in Delta variant infections justified it.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#9  About 40 years ago, we rented our house when we moved but couldn't sell. After three years and three tenants, each worse than the previous one, we managed to sell our house. We still had to evict the last tenant. When we showed up, we were accompanied by a sheriff's deputy.
The deputy said he was thinking of buying a place and renting it out. I said I would burn the place to the ground rather than rent.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2023-01-26 19:33  

#8  ^ Or a valuable piece of finger paint?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-01-26 19:02  

#7  So I guess all rentals will be capped @ $49,910/mo?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2023-01-26 16:35  

#6  This will be success for Cloward–Piven blueprint.
Posted by: mossomo   2023-01-26 12:53  

#5  Biden has succumbed to pressure from the van lobby.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-01-26 10:37  

#4  That would make them even more dependent on the government, Deacon.

So win, win.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-01-26 08:41  

#3  They want to bankrupt retired people who use rental property to supplement their income.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-01-26 08:06  

#2  From an administration that failed economics 101 in college.
Posted by: 3dc   2023-01-26 07:36  

#1  ...Rent control leads to substandard housing and housing shortages every time.

Every.

Single.

Time.


Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-01-26 07:24  

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