Re:Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC...
by lotsofpulp on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:42PM
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>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
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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%.
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.