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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by hn8788 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:21PM (#27595220)
At a minimum they should at least force you to submit a financial report and show that you couldn't pay your rent. Back when the housing bubble burst, I knew people who stopped paying their mortgage because the only way to qualify for a short sale was if you weren't paying your mortgage. They could still afford to pay it, they just felt like moving and didn't want to lose money on the house.
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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by content_sesh on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:32PM (#27595350)
What proof is there that means-testing this to weed out "unworthy" renters will save more money than it costs?
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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by duskwuff on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:16PM (#27597325)
If anything, adding an intrusive means test (like a "financial report") is likely to exclude a lot of deserving renters, especially ones who are unbanked/underbanked.
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