Just a Landlord

“You wouldn’t believe how many evictions I do for less than $100 in arrears on rent,” Colon told the Greater Milwaukee Foundation at a recent meeting kicking off its “A Milwaukee for All” strategic plan. “You would not believe it.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit renters hard nationwide, with data from the US Census Bureau and the National Multifamily Housing Council showing that millions have missed rent payments or lack

Rent control in New York City after World War II is another sobering example of unintended consequences. Originally intended to provide returning veterans with affordable housing, the city’s housing commission capped rent prices (and ability of landlord to raise them) in certain areas of the city. Affordable housing for veterans is a noble policy, right? […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark in the United States, millions of people are still unable to make their monthly rent payments. In Oregon, an estimated 11.7 percent of the leased households did not pay rent in January, and recent US Census data find that an estimated 89,000 Oregonians currently owe some amount […]

Home prices are rising coast to coast and are outstripping wages and rents. Some say it's another housing bubble. But it's nothing like the mid 2000s.

With management solved, SFRs make more sense for multifamily companies. With single-family rentals outperforming multifamily in many cases, builders in other sectors are starting to take notice. ”The buzzword right now is build-for-rent,” says Michael Carey, senior director at Altus Group. “Companies are building out whole communities of build-for-rent [housing]. You’re seeing a lot of […]

Cities can’t do battle with the eviction crisis without good eviction data. City leaders need granular, real-time information if they want to crack down on landlords who are turning tenants out illegally, or to equitably distribute the billions of dollars in rental assistance flowing down from the federal government. If we are serious about stemming […]

During the pandemic, the Trump administration eased consumer protections that stemmed from the 2008 housing crisis. Now, Wall Street is gearing up for another property-grabbing bonanza. “We’re in the very early stage, really, of being able to prevent that problem of rental units going offline or being acquired by investors whose only motive is to […]

Discussing housing policy in left-wing spaces I often run into an argument which is, essentially "building more units doesn't help with the housing shortage because so many will be bought by speculators with no intention of living there." This view, however, implies there's an excellent opportunity to get a ton of housing built at the […]

For scores of residents who live in informal housing across Massachusetts, the nearly $500 million in federal funds set aside for rental assistance remains out of reach. One of the major barriers is that these tenants often rely on informal middlemen to navigate the region's housing markets.

Crime-free housing ordinances are part of a legacy of local laws and policies used to perpetuate racial segregation in housing, policies which have outlived both chattel slavery and Jim Crow.

The senator noted that the bill does not wipe out rental arrears. “This bill does not purport to cancel rent, this bill pays the rent. That has been my approach since we crafted the first version in March and revised it over the summer,” said Kavanagh. “Now that there is federal money, my intent is […]

An opinion by Jeremie Dufault, a Washington State legislator, on why rent vouchers and not moratoriums are better for tenants and landlords

A series of policy briefs include evidence-based recommendations to help people through the immediate health and economic crises and longer-term recommendations to ensure a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Even before last year, one in four U.S. renters — about 11 million households — was living in a household that spent more than half its pretax income on housing, and overcrowding was on the rise. By one estimate, for every 100 very low-income households, only 36 affordable rentals are available.

Unpaid utility bills have been piling up since the coronavirus crisis began, prompting fears that winter shutoffs of water, power, and heat could worsen Covid’s toll.

The solution isn’t to stop evictions. They are an important tool for landlords to manage their assets, and we risk long-term harm on another important sector of the economy — real estate and property management — if we tie their hands too much. So what’s the answer? Nip it in the bud. Communities, helped by […]

“At this juncture, we must use this time to address and prevent the eviction and foreclosure catastrophe looming just over the horizon.” An organization representing 25,000 lawyers in New York City has called on the state to increase aid for landlords and tenants in order to resolve eviction cases during the COVID pandemic. Most pending […]

A deadly pandemic is no time to turn families out of their homes.

MERCED, Calif. (KGPE) – Some small landlords are running out of options. Under an eviction moratorium, renters affected by COVID-19 have not had to pay rent for 11 months now. They are protec…

Few provisions of the U.S. constitution generate controversy like the Fifth Amendment. Most Americans know it lets us refuse to testify against ourselves. It also requires grand jury indictments fo…

Is the problem too big to solve?

A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.

TA: I think it really depends on the jurisdiction. In California for instance, what we’re seeing, and some other places as well is a moratorium on eviction. However, what we’re seeing in our courtroom, I think my colleagues would agree, is that sometimes people are confusing the moratorium on evictions with I don’t have to […]

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) – New York landlords are calling for change when it comes to the state’s ongoing eviction moratorium. On Thursday, landlords from across New York gathered outside the Governor’s Mansion to protest the Covid-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (C19EPA), which was signed into law by the governor on December […]

After about 15 minutes into the meeting, it was “Zoom bombed" by tenants and activists who flooded the chat with “#CancelRent” and called out officials for

Housing advocates predict both a tsunami of evictions and a significant rise in homelessness These small landlords are shouldering a huge burden during the pandemic. For many, it’s increasingly untenable. De Laat, who has since found a good new job working in gene therapy for a pharmaceutical company, is on better financial footing now. She […]

Some landlords are struggling, too, during the Covid-19 pandemic.