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Property taxes in NYC are due 7/1. The landlords who aren't getting paid, aren't going to pay them. This is going to put a big hurt on the city's finances. When that happens, evictions will start happening again pretty quickly. And any of Cuomos edicts about keeping businesses closed that might still be in effect, will like cease to be enforced by the city.
One datapoint, The Gap is not paying rent on properties where they can't open their stores.
Property taxes in NYC are due 7/1. The landlords who aren't getting paid, aren't going to pay them. This is going to put a big hurt on the city's finances. When that happens, evictions will start happening again pretty quickly. And any of Cuomos edicts about keeping businesses closed that might still be in effect, will like cease to be enforced by the city.
One datapoint, The Gap is not paying rent on properties where they can't open their stores.
And their happy behinds are being hauled into court with property owners basically telling the Gap to "give me my money".
Because lawsuits are such a quick and efficient way of settling business disputes. Those suits could drag on for years. And while they do, Simon isn't getting paid, and has that much less money to pay taxes.
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And their happy behinds are being hauled into court with property owners basically telling the Gap to "give me my money".
It seems like the alternative plan is put everyone who cant pay the rent on some form of Sec 8 or one shot deal
If you are going to waive certain fees/debts for one party, you should do for all. If LL gets mortgage waiver, I dont see how unreasonable not to at least furlough tenant rent too.
If you have to spend money should be on the essentials like food and utilities. If even that becomes too expensive, give them some stimulus.
It seems like the alternative plan is put everyone who cant pay the rent on some form of Sec 8 or one shot deal
If you are going to waive certain fees/debts for one party, you should do for all. If LL gets mortgage waiver, I dont see how unreasonable not to at least furlough tenant rent too.
If you have to spend money should be on the essentials like food and utilities. If even that becomes too expensive, give them some stimulus.
List for Section 8 has been closed for ages IIRC, and those on it now likely would be po'd if others were jumped ahead of themselves.
City already is pushing LLs of affordable lottery units to take homeless and other busted people, and that list is long enough. You can't save everyone......
As for one shot deal, BdeB has already increased that program up many times over. Where is all this money going to come from now city is essentially busted?
It seems like the alternative plan is put everyone who cant pay the rent on some form of Sec 8 or one shot deal
If you are going to waive certain fees/debts for one party, you should do for all. If LL gets mortgage waiver, I dont see how unreasonable not to at least furlough tenant rent too.
If you have to spend money should be on the essentials like food and utilities. If even that becomes too expensive, give them some stimulus.
Why can't they pay the rent?
Most people are making more money on unemployment than they were working. Not to mention the stimulus.
I can understand a lot of people are still waiting on it and it will come eventually. As someone self employed I couldn't even file until about a month ago and I'll get less than I was making by a good amount. But for anyone making less even with the extra 600, they should have money saved to pay their bills. And if for some reason they don't they should still be able to pay their rent and eat with the unemployment money.In the more expsnive places to live they're still getting over 1,000 dollars a week. If not they still can't pay their rent they were living completely over their heads anyway and don't deserve to have the tax payers paying their obviously super high rent.
So if someone was laid off and still hasn't received their stimulus money/unemployment they should pay their back rent when they come through which they will. They already can't get evicted- so why should they get rent vouchers. Instead of rent voucher the gov't needs to pay them what they're owed and they can pay their rent.
Now for people who didn't get unemployment-they already weren't working so how did covic negatively impact them financially? How would they have paid their rent anyway?
If a landlord gets a mortgage waiver it's not going to eliminate the payment- it's going to defer it.
As i already said it's perfectly reasonable for people who truly can't pay their rent to defer it until their unemployment/stimulus money come through. It is not ok for them to not pay it, nor should anyone else pay it. They're already getting more than enough to pay it.
Now after July 31st if the economy is still in shambles and unemployment isn't extended I could understand some sort of rent voucher system.
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