Comments by "Babu" (@Babu-kr3cr) on "Former homeless tenants facing rent increase in Bankers Hill housing" video.

That is a dumpy little room, and these people are begging for their lives to stay there. All these corporations care about is making more money. You used to be able to find one of these SROs just about anywhere to crash while you figured out what to do next. Now it is the only home these people can find, and it is being taken from them. This one is clean, so it isn't the neighbors protesting them out of town. It is just the landlord looking to capitalize on the situation instead of looking out for his neighbors. Maybe he isn't even from the area. Once you lose a place these days, you can't find another unless you are from the upper end of the income spectrum.
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No eviction filings even if you beat the eviction. No criminal record. Perfect references. You have to be essentially without any issues, or you are homeless.
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You probably are.
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@vespaman101 They should be illegal. You were never allowed to do that before. It is like running a hotel without the licensing and inspections. Same thing with Uber. You are getting in a stranger's car with no license, background check or culpability. It is destroying the rental market. People are displaced for the sole reason the landlord can make more money running this Air B&B nonsense. Cabbies are being put out of business. I really think it is not fair to the lower classes to have these unfair unregulated entities as competition. The Air B&B doesn't need a CO and inspection. They just go right ahead and start charging a lot of money. If people are winding up homeless, something has to be done. I don't think it should be legal to evict someone in order to convert to an Air B&B at the very least, but then greedy landlords would run the tenants out some other way.
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They turned this housing into an AIR B&B? Those should be made illegal. They are displacing too many people.
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Those places are barely livable no less.
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