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Well that’s why we think it should be managed by residents themselves not the state.

I would say we also believe there should be massive investment in renovation / redevelopment for all housing providers, RI has the 3rd oldest housing stock in the country and a crack down on slumlords. Landlords who follow the laws and regulations shouldn’t have an issue.

Honestly we are fine with people just putting family in there, that’s often what already happens, landlords like you provide naturally existing affordable housing. Overall we are calling for expansion of public housing and sensible protections for all tenants, including your niece or nephew or grandparents.

We aren’t making you an enemy, in fact we know you are likely way different than a medium or larger landlord. But you should still have to abide by landlord and tenancy laws. And we believe these should be updated for the 21st century.

This is like saying that a local mom and pop pizza joint shouldn’t have to abide by the same rules as a Pizza Hut or Dominos in paying their workers a minimum wage, or they should be immune from safety regulations, etc

No one including corporations should own a second house until everyone has a home. We need public housing for everyone managed by the residents themselves.

Every other business needs a professional license or to register, be overseen by OSHA, etc should be no different for housing if they want to be treated like a business. We need consumer protections.

Nah most landlords found a way to evict people for reasons other than non payment also most tenants who did use the moratorium got rent relief which was a landlord bailout.

There is not. In some states there is rent control but RI doesn’t have rent control.

Maybe don't become a landlord if you dont have a plan to pay all your mortgages you took out. If they are an investment then they are a risk, but surely if you really wanted to be in the "housing business" without any risk you'd make sure you could pay your bills often without customers. You don't see other small businesses forcing their clients, and customer base to have no where else to shop do you, even making them contractually obligated to shop at their business.

Housing is unique in that it involves peoples health and lives, so it should be highly regulated.

This whole past year has been a crisis of landlords price gouging giving a months notice of unaffordable rent increases and then when tenant can’t agree cuz they don’t get a raise at work or can’t find a second, third job they get a 30 day notice of termination of periodic tenancy telling them sorry but you are too poor I’d prefer a richer tenant get out in the street please.

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.

People don’t sign month to month leases they are just told if you don’t do this I’ll terminate your tenancy. Most are economically compelled into that position. And yea maybe if you are a white or middle class tenant with a lawyer you’ll get a stay, but if you are a POC mom with no lawyer who doesn’t know her rights etc sorry but we see a lot of these evictions go down. We have a crisis of the abuse and misuse of these laws.

Not just time limit, but it isn’t that you have an eviction if you get kicked out, it’s you have an eviction if any landlord ever just simply filed for one, like you said.

It does suck. One politician is introducing a virtual testimony bill because of how inaccessible they are. Otherwise write or call your politicians and tell them you care about these issues and that you and your friends vote.

In this economy who can just up and leave in 30 days? Most people face immediate homelessness and aren’t going to just hit the streets, they overstay because they can’t find another apartment.

I’ve heard it from the best lawyers in the state who handle evictions cases every day, every week and they have told me if you haven’t given proper notice (20 days) and / or deduct more that the legal $125 then you are likely seeing an eviction filed against you for non-payment of rent. It doesn’t matter that it’s probably an illegal retaliatory eviction they still happen and sometimes judges grant them if tenants don’t have enough documentation etc

Termination of tenancy is also known as “no fault” evictions.

Many evictions are “no fault” evictions where the landlord just wanted their place back and gave tenant no choice.

Also this is why lawmakers are discussing raising deductions from $125 to $500 or even the full rent.

In particular this is what happens with slumlords like Pioneer Investments LLC who disregard the laws.

Go ahead try it. Our lawyers tell us this just ends in non payment evictions every time.

Actually when they do that slumlords bring them to fourth for non-payment evictions. It’s illegal to withhold unless you pay into the court registry apparently.

Yes we are calling for a boycott of this landlord and investigation by the state of Rhode Island.