Landlord Power Grab
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Fucking crazy just how determined they are to cause pain to everybody outside of the wealthy class.Â
Three days?! That’s barely enough time to pack, let alone find a new place. This is straight-up evil.
The president is a fucking landlord!
They just did this in my home state of Iowa. #ihatekimreynolds
Back in the company town days if a coal miner died they dropped the body on the porch with an eviction notice pinned to the lapel. If the widow didn’t have a son she could send to the mines they were out the next day. That’s where we’re headed.
already the law in Texas. Just had a friend of my daughter go through this for being 1 day late (4th of the month) on their rent. Eviction notice was served on day 5; had to vacate by Feb 8. WTAF?
Tells you who’s been “representing” the people this whole time, vultures ready to pick clean this country the second a lil fascism shows up.
The great experiment is a failure it seems, to paraphrase the joker , this country needs an enema
give me 3 days and i’m setting that apt on fire. imma be homeless anyways so might as well get 3 meals and a bed in jail
The wolves are now in charge
They should all be fired. How do we do that?
Why don’t you ask Mao Zedong from 1949-1953 what happens when landlords start doing things like this.
The clock is ticking. If you haven’t been in the target group for some government overreach yet, your turn is coming. You too, Magats.
Is this not a states’ rights issue?
Honestly never really saw any enforcement or consequences for landlords ignoring it all together
Welcome to Feudalism my fellow peasants
Only applies to tenants in federally-subsidized housing.
Which is bad enough, because those are disproportionately people with very few resources.
But it doesn’t supersede state and municipal rules regarding evictions in privately owned property. (See 10th Amendment US Constitution, assuming it’s still in force when you read this /s).
[NYT 2.13.24](http://Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/realestate/eviction-30-day-notice-legislation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w04.GKEC.LLZEYVJsluuX)
Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill
Legislation would end tenant protections that were first put in place during the pandemic.
Feb. 13, 2025
Landlords around the United States would be allowed to give tenants three days’ notice or less before evicting them, under federal legislation introduced last week that would strip away tenant protections put in place during the pandemic.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 — known as the CARES Act and better known for its 120-day moratorium on evictions — provided sweeping relief for tenants, as shutdowns and a shaken economy put millions of Americans at risk of eviction.
Though the moratorium has long since expired, another federal requirement remained in place: Landlords must give tenants in federally-subsidized housing at least 30 days’ notice before evicting them for nonpayment of rent. The requirement applies to about 3.7 million families who live in public housing or in properties with federally-backed mortgages and those who rely on housing vouchers. Advocates for the elimination of the requirement say a 30-day notice places an unfair burden on landlords and property owners. They say states, not the federal government, should set eviction laws.
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On Friday, Republicans in Congress — Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee — introduced a bill that would end the requirement. In the House, Representative Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, and Representative Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat from Texas, introduced a companion measure.
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A blond woman in a red jacket and black dress walks down a hallway. Next to her, a man in a collared shirt looks down at his phone.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican from Mississippi, is one of two senators who introduced the bill.Credit…Allison Dinner/EPA, via Shutterstock
“Landlords and property owners have been under significant stress since the federal government inserted itself into the realm of state and local housing regulations,” Ms. Hyde-Smith, who is chair of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, said in a news release. “We must acknowledge that precautions enacted during a long-ended national emergency were never meant to last forever.”
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, under President Biden, made the requirement permanent. It has served as a buffer to state laws in 20 states that allow landlords to evict tenants with three days’ notice or less, which include Missouri, New Jersey, California and Ohio.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that more than 5 million American households use federal rental assistance. These households are disproportionately made up of single parents and children, with no other housing options and little to no savings. The National Housing Law Project, which provides legal assistance to affordable housing residents, says that the federal statute helped to significantly decrease evictions among this group, because it gave renters who were short on cash at the end of the month some time to figure out how to pay, and stay in their homes.
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One HUD study showed that between 2019 and 2022, evictions of tenants in federally-subsidized housing because of nonpayment of rent fell by 44 percent.
“In this housing market, tenants need every chance they can get to avoid evictions and stay stably housed. Otherwise the risk of homelessness for the tenants is high,” said Marie Claire Tran Leung, N.H.L.P.’s evictions initiative project director. “The extra days give people time to access rental assistance. It gives them time to get another paycheck, to be able to meet the rent and to stay stably housed.”
This is the second time the bill has been introduced; it was introduced last year but never advanced to a full vote on the House floor and never had a hearing in the Senate. It’s backed by some of the most powerful landlord and developer groups in the country, including the National Apartment Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Multifamily Housing Council.
Those groups, said Noelle Porter, N.H.L.P.’s director of government affairs, reintroduced now in hopes that it will succeed in a Republican-controlled legislature.
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“The timing is a statement of priority,” she said. “We know how important this is to the industry groups that are really paying to make this happen.”
Debra Kamin reports on real estate, covering what it means to buy, sell and own a home in America today. More about Debra Kamin
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I’m telling everyone I know…we’re headed to our “Never more than twelve” moment as a nation.
No one gets it 🙂
Out for themselves. They don’t represent the people. Just their own financial interests. Greedy fuckers.
This is more r/boringdystopia than a clever comeback…
I used to be a landlord, I’m open to becoming a landlord again, I have no problems with landlords, but this legislation is stupid.
Tenants make sure you read your leases and check that it has the protections you need in it explicitly mentioned. I am not a lawyer, but if the lease says you need 30-day notice to be evicted, then that should supercede this law…
How much time does it take to get C4?
Fine then I shouldn’t have to give them notice when my lease is over to move out.
Oh, don’t worry. Soon, you won’t be burdened by silly things like making rent and finding a place to live. The state will decide for you. You’ll work and live on land owned by your nobility(former members of congress).
And as homelessness is illegal, they can imprison you and force you to work for $.30/hr.
Goddamn, conservatives really are evil
and they want you to put in two weeks when leaving a job lmfao
Where I live you get 6 months to leave
I was late paying some of my rent a couple months ago and they literally hung a three day eviction notice on my door. I still have it too. Should I talk to a lawyer about this? Thought the three day thing was already established
This just in, Landlords have started moving to more comfier residential homes. Lovey pine boxes.
Given that “At Will employment” cuts both ways can we remove legislators on 3 days notice?
Absolutely evil
I believe that fits the definition of “conflict of interest.”
When was the last time any Congress member was held accountable for a violation of Ethics?
We’re fast tracking to the point where nearly everyone but them is standing in line for bread.
They’re about to saddle millions of Americans with insurmountable medical debt and they want those filthy poors dying in the streets not in their rental properties.