Wow, if anything the headline downplays how wild this is. I assumed it was talking about general market forces fucking up housing, but there are specific properties required by law to be low income housing that were just blatantly converted to hotels with zero enforcement. And the response from the officials who are supposed to be enforcing it is just ‘oh we need to do better, we’re trying!’ Sickening.
Seize it. Turn it into condos. Give it to the homeless. Make the landlords buy it back from them if they want it. Piece by piece.
So your solution is to steal another persons property and then make them buy it back? Exactly how would you get that through the courts? Let’s ignore the words landlord and land, and let’s go with vehicle and owner , think the courts would agree with stealing the vehicle?
If I was selling drugs out of a low income house that I owned, the state can and would seize the property. If a property is used in the commission of a crime, the government can seize it
The landlords are violating the law. Why shouldn’t their property be seized in that situation?
Did you read the article? These property owners are breaking the law.
Yes, yes it is.
They’re claiming a staffing and funding hurdle to get the existing laws enforced. If the department has been starved for funds to the point where it can’t do its job, who made that decision, and more importantly, who donated to their political campaign?
This reeks of backdoor politics on the part of the landlords. De-funding an enforcement agency when a law holds up in court is a tried and true form of regulatory capture.
“sabotage a government program and then say the government can’t do anything right” is a commonly talked about right wing strategy.
