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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"sabotage a government program and then say the government can't do anything right" is a commonly talked about right wing strategy.

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