but if you own your own house, yer sh!t out of luckIs he limiting it to blacks, like he did his health care plan?
Beshear is a 1st class POS. He’s a blue governor in a very red state. It’s my great hope that the KY legislature will remain Republican and straighten out the POS next year.
but if you own your own house, yer sh!t out of luckLets think about this for a minute.
It seems to me that preventing people from being homeless because of a pandemic is a significant government concern. And the best place to house people is right where they are now. So, I have no difficulty with the government preventing evictions of renters for non-payment.
But the 5A has two equally sharp edges. As much as stopping evictions is definitely with the government's power, the government must make just compensation for what it has just commandeered from citizen-owners. And this is not like condemning a piece of land or a building from an unwilling seller, where the price is not easily established. This is a temporary condemnation, not a transfer of ownership, and the proper price is well established -- it is the current rent.
States have gone through all kinds of contortions to set up no-eviction decrees as something other than a taking, but they are just that, takings. The pious fiction that the renter is still obligated to pay back rent is absolute fiction.
In 50 years experience as a landlord, I have never collected even one dime of rent that was later than a single month. Renters live paycheck to paycheck and will never be able to make up back rent. So the only constitutionally sound way to both protect tenants and adhere to the 5A is for the government to guarantee the unpaid rent.
The answer to who authorized this fund is simple; it was authorized by the Framers of our Constitution.