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klasbatalo t1_ja2uojc wrote

Listen I’m not saying stays of eviction never happen. All I’m saying is most tenants don’t have a choice if they will sign a lease or not. They are too poor to say no to landlords who either don’t offer them at all or won’t offer a new year to year as standard practice and tell tenants after the first year is over they will move to month to month. I mean god most leases used in Rhode Island it’s practically standard at this point have a clause or provision which signals an automatic switch after a year, to only month to month. Just like many are forced to work at jobs they despise, jobs that abuse them, out of sheer economic desperation many many tenants (the same workers) are basically forced to rent from slumlords and other slimy landlords who don’t provide fair rental contracts. These tenants need to unionize just like workers unionize.

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