What we really need is Universal Basic Income which would be much less expensive than the current welfare system with its massive administrative over burden. Also, in the current system, funds for the TANF program (temporary assistance for needy families) are given to each state with virtually total discretion by each state as to how to spend that money. Which is why states like Tennessee are allowed to simply sit on that pile of cash without helping the poor. There needs to a very a strict law that a fixed percentage of that money must be given directly to help the poor, or the money returned to the federal government.
Re: Mediation - my neighbor and I are in eviction court right now, and the LL called for "mediation." His only intention was to force a cash for keys deal on my neighbor, and he will likely do the same to me. We need for the courts to admit that there are TOO MANY eviction cases, not make us appear before a judge till we have representation, even if that means we are in limbo for years, till the system is willing to fix itself. It's too easy for landlords to file evictions to harass long-time tenants who they just want to wear out. Also, eviction cases are often decided by technicality, such as one side fails to file something on time or something is misspelled or someone didn't get notice on time to know they were supposed to be in court. It's just a tactic to drag a tenant thru a series of hoops and wait for some conflict to make it impractical or impossible for them to show up, and the LL wins by default. The ONLY salvation I have found in this maze that is designed to empty units for the donors who own every city government is the TENANTS UNION. I hear no mention of that here. Why not?
Unfortunately all my Republican friends insist the mortgage tax deduction is letting people keep their own money and subsidizing rent for the poor is communism. I've tried to explain why it is more complicated but they are completely unreasonable.
We need universal rent and land ownership control
What we really need is Universal Basic Income which would be much less expensive than the current welfare system with its massive administrative over burden. Also, in the current system, funds for the TANF program (temporary assistance for needy families) are given to each state with virtually total discretion by each state as to how to spend that money. Which is why states like Tennessee are allowed to simply sit on that pile of cash without helping the poor. There needs to a very a strict law that a fixed percentage of that money must be given directly to help the poor, or the money returned to the federal government.
Re: Mediation - my neighbor and I are in eviction court right now, and the LL called for "mediation." His only intention was to force a cash for keys deal on my neighbor, and he will likely do the same to me. We need for the courts to admit that there are TOO MANY eviction cases, not make us appear before a judge till we have representation, even if that means we are in limbo for years, till the system is willing to fix itself. It's too easy for landlords to file evictions to harass long-time tenants who they just want to wear out. Also, eviction cases are often decided by technicality, such as one side fails to file something on time or something is misspelled or someone didn't get notice on time to know they were supposed to be in court. It's just a tactic to drag a tenant thru a series of hoops and wait for some conflict to make it impractical or impossible for them to show up, and the LL wins by default. The ONLY salvation I have found in this maze that is designed to empty units for the donors who own every city government is the TENANTS UNION. I hear no mention of that here. Why not?
Housing is a human right? Why am I paying a mortgage?
Unfortunately all my Republican friends insist the mortgage tax deduction is letting people keep their own money and subsidizing rent for the poor is communism. I've tried to explain why it is more complicated but they are completely unreasonable.
Tragic to watch this now, after the devastation in Lahaina on Maui, while disaster capitalism once again rears its ugly exploitation.
The opening chant was physically painful--worse that fingernails on a chalkboard.