Our Stimulus Plan Will Rescue Renters
Opinion by Eric Garcetti, Francis Suarez and Ankur Jain for CNN Business Perspectives.
Opinion by Eric Garcetti, Francis Suarez and Ankur Jain for CNN Business Perspectives.
Desiree Kane, an organizer with Colorado Rent Strike and Eviction Defense, says her neighbors are fearful. Many have lost jobs or wages, and bills are piling up. “Mostly the Colorado Rent Strike and Eviction Defense is a support group for people,” she said, “who come in, and they’re like, ‘Oh, my god, my entire world is crumbling around me. What do I do?’”
As states begin to lift moratoriums on evictions that have been in place since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one city in New York is moving in the opposite direction. Not only has the state's eviction moratorium been extended until Aug. 20, but the city of Ithaca is looking to cancel unpaid rent.
Keeping a resolution is difficult and so is making an accurate prediction about the year ahead; I tend to avoid doing both at the New Year. But I have a prediction about housing. The United States may see the nationalization of private rental housing by the end of this decade. Through apparently disparate and [...]
The Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision that prevented cities from enforcing so-called camping bans. “Without comment or noted dissent” (said the Washington Post) the court said it would not review the case Martin v. Boise, which said that people experiencing homelessness could not be ticketed or cited for sleeping outside if [...]
The curious thing about bad ideas is how they never seem to die. No matter how many times an idea has failed in the past, there’s always someone, somewhere willing to give it another try. Is it any surprise, then, that American socialists, who stubbornly refuse to learn the lessons of their ideology’s astronomic [...]
A poll by Ipsos Mori of voters across the UK has found that 71% of those canvassed supported the idea of rent controls and that only 9% opposed them. The Labour party has claimed that the poll backs their plan to introduce more radical housing policies, highlighted during their General Election campaign. Click Here [...]
As many metropolitan areas grapple with how to address housing affordability challenges, many cities – and some states – are considering rent control measures as a way to keep prices in check, to the dismay of many in the real estate sector. The National Apartment Association released a new study modeling the impact of [...]
Twenty-two people were arrested early Monday in Oakland after dozens of protesters set up tents outside City Hall to bring attention to the treatment of homeless people, officials said. The people arrested were booked at Santa Rita Jail on charges of resisting arrest and cited for violating the city’s municipal code for staying at the park past 10 [...]
To address its own housing shortage, the City of Minneapolis became the first large American city to do away with single-family zoning by repealing the rules that restrict certain neighborhoods to single-family homes. As a result, construction is now limited to buildings with up to three units per residential lot. Due to its strong [...]