Category Archives: Lower-Income Neighborhoods

Tenant right to counsel: A fast way to crush small landlords

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Skip Schloming

 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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The rape of lower-income neighborhoods

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Skip Schloming

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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