Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "LA Tenants Fight 300 PERCENT Rent Increase: "We Don't Want to Be Displaced"" video.

  1. Predatory landlordism should be a felony, I'm serious. these predators will not stop since clearly they have no qualms about preying on vulnerable people, they have no sense of right and wrong, and they will not stop unless they're stopped by laws that have teeth. IT'S time that human rights such as the right to fair housing and affordable housing mattered to our lawmakers.
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  2. we just need a right to shelter in this country! we're still living in the dark ages here. is this the 21st century??? because I can't tell! because there's no right to housing, you just have to hope you get lucky and stay lucky because if you're not lucky you have a very high chance of ending up homeless unless you're fortunate enough to have family you can go stay with and most people unfortunately do not have that luxury, so they either have to rely on shelters or their vehicle or the street in some cases. but with a political class that doesn't have a heart and doesn't really have a conscience and will sell their mother for a dollar and CONSTANTLY and religiously sells themselves out to the highest bidder I mean where does that leave us? I wish I could see a positive and a timely solution to this because these problems are not new- go back and look at some newspaper clippings from the 1880s in New York City or elsewhere. How's this still a problem in 2022 right??? is this not insane????!
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  3. HARD #RENTCONTROL WITHIN LA CITY LIMITS NOW!!!!
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  4. Landlords really are trash. are there any that aren't just ruthless profiteering maniacs who would sell their first born for a two-for-one at Sizzler's??? I f*cking doubt it. When do RENTERS' RIGHTS MATTER?!?!?! Is it time yet? Be at least be seen as equally Worthy of legal protections as landlords? Or we just like, you know, serfs or landlord property?? Most people would love to become homeowner someday most people are working towards that aim but when you're spending 50 to 80% of your modest income on rent that makes it impossible. That is a unjust and immoral appropriation of our personal wealth by a class of people who are already comfortable if not very wealthy, and that should not be legal. RENT SHOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO EXCEED 20% OF ONES TAKE HOME PAY BY LAW. THAT'S MY STANDARD. If landlords don't like that tough. They have been the parasitical beneficiaries of this massively unequal system for many many decades so I don't want to hear any landlord tears in response to any level of rent control. Because if I do I might just have to throw up. I understand some landlords have a mortgage to meet so in the cases where 20% of a prospective tenants income cannot cover the mortgage then I would say, they could go ahead and request an amount equal to whatever their mortgages plus 15% of that mortgage as a little profit margin. That's only for units that have a currently active mortgage that's the only exception to the 20% rule that I would institute if I was able to wave a magic wand and get my policy adopted.
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  5. If I was in office and I was able to get my policies passed I would limit it to 20%, boom and not a penny more.
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  6. Sounds like they've got the right idea. What is LVT?
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  7. I'm okay with heavily-managed capitalism I guess you could say, but this kind of free-for-all winner-take-all system no absolutely not. it's super immoral and wrong and it's causing a lot of pain & a lot of harm to people and we don't deserve it and we can and should can do better.
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  8.  @emhu2594  wait- when was this???? Did I miss it????
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  9.  @emhu2594  I fully agree. But I've been voting in every session for some time and I'm not sure if I remember that. did this come out in 2020 or was this in 2018? I'm just trying to remember when I saw any kind of rent control measure on the ballot and I can't. I agree it's really gross when voters can't be trusted to vote in their own interests. we're cutting our own throats and to say it is frustrating to me is a huge understatement. If you're going to vote I mean why wouldn't you want to be informed about what you're voting for??? it's kind of like, I don't put a blindfold on myself when I get in my car to go drive so why would I vote without fully educating myself on the pros and cons of every issue that's on the ballot? Yeah I agree it's it's enraging. There's a couple of important measures that were defeated in 2020 or 2021 I forget which, for example I think it was prop 18 but I'm not certain, people voted down the law that would have prevented all of the tech companies from exploiting their workers by using loopholes in California's labor law. If that measure had passed they would not be able to do that but unfortunately the measure failed thanks to a heavy stream of misinformation presented by constant misleading ads funded by those tech companies. I could see through it right away but I'm not an idiot. Every TV ad has to show you who it's funders are right on the bottom and you can see them if you watch to the end you'll always see them right there at the bottom of your TV screen. it shouldn't take a genius to recognize that if a certain entity or company or interest is funding a certain ad and they're presenting themselves as being for the other party who would benefit if it passed, so to speak, then they are lying or greatly distorting the truth to you and you should be suspicious and investigate more into that particular measure. I made sure to gather information on every measure that was on the ballot and I read the summaries about them carefully either beforehand or just there as I was voting. I was able to vote at home this time, although it's easy to request an absentee ballot in San Diego county in every year not just during a health emergency, so is it was easy to have the background information of each proposal right there with me. But even if I voted in person you can take the the booklet with you into the voting booth, so you have something to reference if you want. So especially in this state where usually voting access is good or better, there's really no excuse not to be an informed voter. More people need to get their heads out of their ass no doubt about it because when we don't stay informed the corporations win. It never works the other way around unfortunately. But can you remember what the name of that proposition was and what year it was put on the ballot?? I'm very very curious thanks
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  10. And then leaders and common people in the public alike wonder why we have skyrocketing homelessness. This is so sickening. When will we stop this disgusting abuse of our nation by these vicious landlord predators? My standards are this: rent to NEVER exceed 20% of a person's take home income with one exception only which I'll detail below, 90 days minimum if an eviction is successful - no less- to relocate oneself, if one is evicted for just or unjust cause regardless it cannot be used against them when they seek subsequent housing, and well it's true there's probably a small number of necessary evictions, clearly the process is horrendously abused by these mostly junk people who call themselves landlords. The eviction process should be costly and cumbersome for landlords to undertake. Right now the opposite is true. Unless they're a clear and present danger to others in the immediate vicinity, everyone has a right to be housed. The eviction process should be fairly difficult so as to disincentivize any unethical or game- playing landlords out there. I've just started to watch the video, I'm sure I'll have much more to vent about before it's done.
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  11. That's great news Catherine I'm thankful that it's happening for at least a few people.
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