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Category Archives: Other Issues
Tenant right to counsel: A fast way to crush small landlords
A major push is being made nationwide for a “right to counsel” for indigent tenants – in other words, free lawyers for poor tenants – along with a nationwide push for more taxpayer-funded “affordable housing.” These two government programs … Read More “Tenant right to counsel: A fast way to crush small landlords”
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Regulatory Barriers to Housing Affordability
Click here to read how the disastrous landlord-tenant laws we have in Massachusetts all tend to push rents up. Included is commentary on new laws being proposed.
Don’t have time to read the entire document? Then read the 5-page opening … Read More “Regulatory Barriers to Housing Affordability”
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Free lawyers for tenants?
This great-sounding idea is totally wrong. Two bills at the State House would give “indigent” tenants free lawyers during evictions.
When does eviction usually happen? 95% of evictions are for tenants not paying rent. First, that immediately qualifies them as … Read More “Free lawyers for tenants?”
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Small landlords: Efficient housing providers
Let’s compare the efficiency of housing providers. Small landlords, who provide roughly 75% of all rental housing in America, are the most efficient. Small landlords usually have full-time jobs with benefits. Their rental property is a part-time job for them. … Read More “Small landlords: Efficient housing providers”
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The rape of lower-income neighborhoods
Small landlords, as we have noted elsewhere, are efficient housing providers at all income levels because they do their own management and repairs without hired personnel and fancy offices, they usually have full-time jobs with benefits, they have older housing … Read More “The rape of lower-income neighborhoods”
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