Comment by tomohawk
2 years ago
In our state, there's a lot of people who got burned during covid by people not paying rent and refusing to leave, and no realistic way to evict. There are still covid related restrictions on evictions in place. An acquaintance of mine has a kind heart and took in a homeless person. He's done this before on occasion. This time, the person is causing all kinds of problems and is unwilling to leave. He now has to live with this person in his house for a minimum of 6 months to get them evicted, even though no rent was ever paid or asked for.
He's never going to take in people again. Nor will he ever rent out to anyone again.
California Insider (channel killed by Youtube) documented how thousands of former rental units are sitting vacant in San Francisco because of issues like this.
Increasing the risk to landlords even more than it already is will only reduce available rentals even more.
This is also why you have to leave after x number of nights at a hotel in the US, where x is less than the number of nights it takes to qualify as a “permanent resident” in the hotel which would cause the hotel to have to go to court to evict them. It is usually 30 nights, but some states are up to 90 nights.
The court system being unreliable and backed up for months is a travesty of its own that has myriad downstream effects in society, including incentivizing discrimination.