Leasing residential property is a business - not the mission of a nonprofit to provide shelter for human beings.
This is capitalism.
If the rent isn't paid, evictions happen. And, they are predicted to kick in this June.
As Tounesna News reports, for this month, 90% of those leasing managed to pay the rent. That's no surprise, given that there had been stimulus checks. But that pay-out was a one-time event.
America is Landlord Nation.
Most states have laws protecting landlords, not renters. And those laws will be enforced.
Recently the Texas Supreme Court ruled that evictions can begin. In the Oklahoma City metro area the sheriff was compassionate about the situation but indicated that evictions would take place. Here in Ohio law, the rights of landlord to be paid rent are what are on the books.
In a less regulated era, the solution to financial crisis had been "hot beds." Relatives who had lost their jobs simply piled into the apartment where monthly rent was being paid. That was usual. Leases weren't written with provisions about how many people could occupy an apartment. Landlords weren't legalistic. Their focus was on the rent check per se.
Somehow my uncle screwed up his work situation. The details were hush-hush. All I knew was that he, his wife, and two-year-old bunked on the third floor of cold-water flat in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey.
Somehow those additional residents at 227 Bay Street (now a condo) were easily absorbed into everyday life by my grandparents and their unmarried children. The holidays I celebrated there were joyous. Losing an apartment - no one shamed anyone. The rent was $30 a month. It never went up. Homelessness was not on the list of things I feared as a child.
That was then.
Sure, there is some getting around current terms and conditions. For example, in a residential complex in Toledo, OH, leases specify that occupancy of the one-bedrooms is limited to two people. As the economy worsened, lots more were visible entering and leaving the residencies. There is the danger that snitches could out the situation. But the location isn't the genteel suburbs. Most of the neighbors existing in this pile-up of people have the mindset of Whatever. They got it that they could be next.
Those who don't have a go-around for paying the rent for an individual residence will swell the number of homeless. That's heart-wrenching when there are children and pets.
It could be a summer of so much pain. With the temperature already higher than normal in some parts of the nation, there could be time-travel back to the urban social unrest of the summer of 1967.
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