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Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by lotsofpulp on Friday November 03, 2023 @01:51PM (#38132403)
> There is no way to fix the process that would allow you to remove a long term tenant in a week and there isn't a political will to sink millions to billions into staff to allow such matters to be handle them much more expeditiously. Society wouldn't experience a net gain and has finite resources.

So then society can pay the rent if it is determined that the tenant is not paying. Problem fixed.

The reason this does not happen is because society wants to get away with sticking certain subsets of the population with the cost who don’t have the political capital to fight it.

Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by michaelmrose on Friday November 03, 2023 @01:55PM (#38132450)
This is untenable it would incentivize landlords in your position to carry nonpayers indefinitely at everyone's expense. All your problems aren't societies to fix.
Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by lotsofpulp on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:37PM (#38133011)
It is if society is the one enforcing the requirement to keep someone on my property.

Also, the simple solution is that the government pays the rent only for time after the business files an eviction claim with the court. After that, the ball is in the court’s court.

Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by michaelmrose on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:50PM (#38133208)
Society doesn't pay folks to install fire doors or sprinklers even though it makes you have them. It doesn't pay for the requirements for a restaurateur to follow food safety guidelines.
Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by lotsofpulp on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:50PM (#38134084)
Not analogous to litigating theft.
Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by michaelmrose on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:29PM (#38134572)
There is no analogous situation in law or American history in which private loss is put upon the public merely because the public made you go through proper procedures.

The tenant caused your loss and you can't recover it from the people. Any such procedure would entirely break the model whereby landlords select tenants based on the expectations of remuneration. If the entire government could be made to bear the cost upon request of unpaid rent landlords would be substantially less apt to be careful in their selection.

Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by lotsofpulp on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:42PM (#38135360)
>If the entire government could be made to bear the cost upon request of unpaid rent landlords would be substantially less apt to be careful in their selection.

This would be a good thing, usually people denounce it as “discrimination”. It’s why you “need” a credit card to stay at a decent hotel, it is a credit check by proxy because the hotel operator cannot count on the police to do their job and remove people.

These types of government policies only end up hurting poorer people who have no credit.

Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC... by michaelmrose on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:50PM (#38135447)
If we are going to go out of pocket 10s of billions of dollars per year I'd rather it be in help to keep people in their homes rather than largess paid out to a class of people that by and large are already in the top 10%.