Geeze, I get it, you guys don’t like landlords. The fact of the matter is that many of these people are a huge gamble for a landlord to rent to. With so many other people clamoring to rent, it’s hard to justify renting out housing to someone who could be risky. Programs like this should really help in getting people housed and stable.
Here’s an idea that will blow your mind. Give money to people who can’t afford rent instead, or even better spend money to build affordable housing. US is such a deranged society.
The US does that through Section 8 housing vouchers. Various entities also build affordable housing, though that has a fraught history because it tends to concentrate poverty.
Concentration of poverty isn’t a product of affordable housing. And the context for the discussion is that a county is giving money to landlords which doesn’t directly translate into people being housed, instead of giving money to people who can’t afford rent. If you can’t understand why that’s backwards what else is there to say.
The government giving money to the landlords who are hoarding housing while people are living on the street is peak America.
