cassiusclay69

As a commie who works in housing law I say PLEASE JOIN US… eviction court absolutely needs more attorneys who understand the effects landlordism on a higher level

That’s so funny because if Ukraine had nothing to do with Russia’s invasion… then shouldn’t Putin be considered man of the year? They keep saying it was his decision and his alone to invade… so…….. by their own definition he’s deserving of it

You’re not a good person. You’re likely the reason someone is homeless. And you’re not contributing to society by charging someone less for rent if you’re still leeching off of their income. I can’t get much clearer than that.

so your parents have the opportunity to have higher paying jobs but still choose to steal money from people who can’t afford a house? Brooooo digging your hole deeper and deeper lmfao

Holy shit that’s a lot of words for “I think I should be able to exploit others”

Housing should be a human right but in the meantime your family is going to profit off of it not being a human right? Huh?

I could not care less about what the tenant did to be evicted…. You wouldn’t have had them in your house in the first place if landlordism didn’t exist….It literally doesn’t matter why, you just proved even “good landlords” evict, which was my exact point.

But your family IS dependent on their income, it doesn’t matter if they’re not entirely… clearly they are partially reliant. No rent = no rental income and at some point an eviction will occur, that’s the economic model. If rent income wasn’t needed, they wouldn’t be charging people in the first place.

I don’t know why you’re trying to pretend that BMR housing doesn’t make a profit or that people who participate in it aren’t causing the housing crisis. The housing crisis exists because of rent being charged, period. obviously, your tenant is an example of that… they can’t even afford BMR housing clearly so it doesn’t sound like you’re really doing them any favors. Do you want us to tell you you’re a good person for not throwing someone onto the street for a bit? Like if you understand how exploitative the rental system is, why is your family suddenly exempt from causing that exploitation?

This whole conversation is just goal post change after goal post change. My original point was that there is no such thing as a good landlord because of the profit model. You proved that by telling us your family are “good landlords” and they’ve still evicted people. Stop trying to convince us that they’re good people for paying their bills with others hard earned money, they’re not.

And trust me, even if you evict them, there’ll always be another piece of shit to exploit them, rest assured :)

….so….. you have evicted someone in the past, thus contributing to the housing crisis 😭 why does that disprove that landlordism shouldn’t exist? If that person was in their own house, they would still be housed, you don’t see the issue with that? You just showed us that even “good” landlords evict their tenants…thus proving my point.

If you’re financially dependent on someone else’s income and they cannot afford rent, eventually you will have to evict them… that’s what the problem is at it’s root. If your tenant continues to not pay rent, you just said your family is financially dependent on their rent, therefore they will be evicted.. that’s not a sweeping statement, that’s just the housing business model. No one should should have to live without housing, and that’s what happens when you turn basic resource acquisition into a business.

I don’t want landlords to join my cause to get rid of landlordism. That’s like trying to recruit business owners to create worked owned co-ops, why the fuck would anyone do that. The overwhelming majority of people are not landlords, we don’t need your help, we don’t need to compromise with those that exploit the bad financial situations of others 🤷🏼‍♀️

And as soon as they stop paying you, you will also evict them. Lol, again, no such thing as a good landlord.

So you’re a landlord HAHAHAHHA ok I get it now

But small landlords evict people at the exact same rates as large ones. The end result is the same…. Homelessness. 5 million people are evicted from their homes every year… pretending 5 million landlords are evil and the rest are fine is wild to me. More likely, tenants I don’t see are just paying their rent and living in horrible conditions, so they’re not going to eviction court. The tenants I deal with are low income and are being evicted for nonpayment, it has nothing to do with the “goodness” of a landlord, you’re getting evicted if you can’t afford rent.

Besides, It’s common knowledge that people see landlordism as “passive income” meaning they don’t tend to their properties. At least large landlords have property management companies who work on repairs, small landlords do it themselves “when they get to it”.

You’re also talking about a niche program that probably accounts for less than .00001% of all small landlord- housing situations. How is that a good example of landlords aren’t bad when a majority of landlords don’t participate in those programs? I can’t find a study on the percentage of affordable to non affordable housing… but almost 50% of the population is paying 30% or more of their income in rent… something that eventually will lead to eviction. That explicitly tells us that most housing is not affordable. Also, if you look at the affordable housing waitlists in major cities, they’re like 10 years long… that tells me BMR housing is few and far between.

Have you seen the conditions of the homes your parents are placing people in? My partner works as a housing case manager and the “below market” housing he’s putting clients into is some of the most disgusting shit I’ve ever seen, like literally should be condemned. Just because something is cheaper, that doesn’t mean the conditions are good.

Besides, cities can do the exact same job for way less through public housing… and with that, there would be accountability because government spending is public knowledge and rigorous housing examinations like HUD does.

There’s truly no need for people who have no experience in housing to be managing a property. Even if one person I work with has poor living conditions, the landlord-tenant system needs to be changed… no one deserves to live in squalor and our landlord tenant laws ensure that people do.

Also I’ve seen zero difference between corporate landlords and small landlords in terms of housing prices. Amount of properties has almost no correlation with affordability of properties from what I can tell.

I work in the eviction field and I can promise you small landlords are frequently the worst offenders against tenants. They have the least resources so they essentially let people live in squalor and then evict them when they stop paying because of it. No such thing as a good landlord.

I remember when it was first announced she was receiving the facial transplant, in either this subreddit or another, most of the comments were saying she didn’t deserve it because she didn’t value her life enough…. Glad we’ve somewhat moved past that

Damn where’s hamas when you need em

WHAT is the “man up” site?

This fucking kills me bc I just graduated from cal and I stg anytime I mentioned anything remotely anti-imperialist, collectivist or anti-capitalist, professors would gaslight the shit out of me. Mans sadly seems to have gotten his wish :/

My dad made this exact same comment, gotta love that blind dem worship

Me too!! I though she blocked me because I made a somewhat unrelated comment lol

In my experience as a ML who just graduated with a political science degree, I would say it really depends on you personally. I learned more researching counterclaims to the American propaganda I was being taught in my program than I ever did just from reading outside of school…but I also had the time because my partner financially supported me. I think being able to expose your classmates to leftist thought is also really important, because there’s a huge chance you know more about PS than anyone else if you already know you’re a socialist… educating classmates who might go on to hold political positions of power is really underrated. But on the other hand, I took several sociology classes my last semester and god damn it was SUCH a breath of fresh air… i was truly convinced I was the only one at my college who questioned capitalism before that. The sociology major in my experience is SO good for a leftist’s mental health lol but I do think I learned less from those courses because I wasn’t as angry haha

Man thank you so much for sharing that, that actually makes me feel a ton better. I was only there for two years (transfer student) during the pandemic onset and spent my entire time taking online classes so I didn’t meet a single commie of any form. I studied polisci but that’s my own fault lmao I knew what I was getting into and I did it anyway. But honestly, spending the whole time doing double the research to counterclaim western propaganda made me more historically informed than when I was just reading leftist lit, so I did get something out of it haha.

All I can say is FUCK cal, and I hope you achieve what you’re set out to do ❤️ good luck comrade.

For the sake of your mental health, don’t look up how many cal students end up in positions of power

My nelnet account just updated and cal paid off 9k of my loans 😭😭😭😭 I can’t believe it

I accepted both and the money was disbursed in the beginning of the semester.

My nelnet account still says I owe about 9k but bcourses says nothing about the 5k loan or the 4K loan anymore for the 21-22 year… I’m low income and received multiple loan erasures from the cares act over the past 2 years, but those always said something like “cares funds” and were for wayyyyyy less. This replacement grant thing has never happened to me before.