Wow, this is really placing the blame on fema when it’s the landlords who are at fault. No one wants to accept blame for their shitty behavior.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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Landlords are always complaining how hard it is to evict bad tenants or screen new ones, but the way they are willing to ditch long term tenants to chase a few bucks makes clear they are not taking their share of the risk. The long term tenant they already know should be more valuable. In fact, though, I think most of them are just bad at business and think the rules should help them succeed anyway.
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Agreed. Slow and steady with the real estate race. Sadly, we have been programmed to flip houses and chase immediate gains. I feel those people would be bad at chess.
How about ~~Slow and steady~~ not at all with the "real estate race"? Sadly, we have been programmed to ~~flip houses and chase immediate gains.~~ see housing as a commodity and investment opportunity rather than the human right it is, and which it is wholly immoral to withhold for profit.
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I agree that the lions share of the blame is on the landlords for sure but think because everyone knows their gonna be terrible we’d hope government agencies would do a bit better job of policing it so when they don’t it also needs to be called out so it can hopefully be improved.
Unfortunately, that very rational thought is not how the United States works. We end up sitting around pointing fingers and nothing ever changes.
My only solution involves getting rid of billionaires, a seemingly unpopular opinion in America.
Yeah pretty much all the issues in the country boil down to the accumulation of massive wealth in the hands of a few people and any solution that isn’t directly addressing the system that allows that is just a bandaid.
Unfortunately the answer is going to be organizing locally and working to educate people on what the actual causes of their problems are which is going to take time. The only silver lining is the systemic problems will become increasingly difficult to ignore which creates the opening for change, we just need to be ready to seize that opportunity.
What we need is an actual leader. One who isn’t trying to get elected to anything and isn’t afraid to point out the obvious solution without being vague.
I agree with you, but who is suppose to be the one who does something about it when these individuals try to do awful things? The government shouldn't attempt to rely on good faith from individuals and should instead leave no wiggle room for this kind of behavior.
It’s not fema’s job to cover all the bases. The tenant laws should have prevented that behavior. But no one wants to read an article about local laws, because fema makes headlines.