A 93 year old probably about to be homeless in Los Angeles
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https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/eviction-east-hollywood-apartment-ellis-act/3526369/
Many people in their '70's, '80's, and '90's are becoming homeless, as I've mentioned in several posts. This is happening in every state, as far as I can tell.
I can understand the legal justification for this woman's situation, but I do not understand how there could be a moral justification for this [trend] or for homelessness, in general, in society.
How can this be right? I don't mean fair. I mean right.
DeSantis signed a bill prohibiting the homeless from sleeping in public.
I think many or most people don't think the homeless are, "like" them, or that they could ever become homeless.
I was at CVS the other day and there was a homeless man sitting under the awning minding his own business. It started to pour down rain and then an entry level employee started to make a huge fuss, telling her coworker that "her friend" had to leave.
Well, she didn't and her coworker didn't have any power to make the man leave. The man had told me he wasn't going anywhere when we were talking about the weather. I told the coworker he said this and I didn't blame him.
I guess to that person's mind, he was supposed to walk out into the rain. The employee didn't consider waiting for the rain to stop before making an issue of it.
What a sorry world.
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Deprive him of the only comfort he had. Swell.
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From the article:
Tobener [a tenant's rights lawyer] also said evicted tenant should keep an eye on the property to see if the owner returns to renting within five years.
"The damages for wrongful eviction if the landlord returns to the rental business without offering it back to this tenant will be in the multiple hundreds of thousands," he said.
After their forced move, each unit will receive nearly $25,000 for re-location assistance.
$25k relocation assistance for each evicted tenant plus legal protection to prevent property owners from gaming the Ellis Act. Seems fair to me. After all, if we value power rights we have to allow property owners to evict. If we want to guarantee "no homelessness" for everyone then let's all pay more taxes and collectively fund public housing.
