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Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Disappointment Over Continued L.A. County Moratoriums
Thank you for your tireless work on behalf of all rental housing providers and our respective property rights.
The original reason for an eviction moratorium for COVID-related non-payment of rent was quite simply - we didn’t have a vaccine. At the outset, people were being victimized and “we,” landlords and tenants alike, were all in this together.
Now we have more vaccine than we can give away and the more than 40% of Americans that refuse to be vaccinated CHOOSE the problems that go along with that decision. We are no longer victims in the truest sense now and now we are very much NOT in this together. Science has proven the vaccinated and their vaccinated employers do not get sick enough to be so adversely impacted that they are unable to pay their rent. Science can nearly prove that if everyone got vaccinated, COVID-19 would disappear more rapidly and become less influential in our lives. Perhaps, COVID-19 will go the way of the flu virus, which many of us vaccinate against annually or the common cold. We may likely never eliminate COVID-19 from our lives completely.
Now no one is a victim of COVID-19 in the original sense, except that the vaccinated who get it from the unvaccinated where the disease seriously propagates. Science corroborates most COVID-19 cases during the last 6 months impacted unvaccinated people, and the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths in the last six months happened to non-vaccinated people. Rental housing providers CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE ANY LONGER for COVID-19 impacted tenants. All eviction moratoriums should be terminated immediately. Tenants must either choose to not vaccinate or get vaccinated to avoid getting really sick or sick at all.
A moratorium advocate might say: “Why do you care? The tenant assistance program is making up for all your losses anyway.” I can only say to that in the first instance, the rental assistance program barely functions to the point that we do not really have statistics on landlord recovery of unpaid rents and financial misery inflicted upon the thousands of rental housing providers which remains. In the second- instance, perhaps, we should say “rental housing providers and the taxpayers CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE ANY LONGER for COVID-19 impacted tenants.”
- William S., Long Beach
(Editor’s Response: We tend to agree with your thoughts. Thank you for reaching out to us to express your views on this matter. We are contemplating our next two lawsuits to add to the five others against the County of Los Angeles, one concerning its extended eviction moratorium and another concerning the rent increase freeze. However, litigation is extremely expensive, and we need all the support we can get. So, please consider giving to our Legal Fund at www.aagla.org/legalfund. I hope we can count on you to give to our Legal Fund with the same degree of passion expressed in your letter.)
Overuse and Abuse by Tenants
Recently, I received an update about the “Renters Outreach” conducted within the City of Los Angeles’ Council District Number 4 (“CD4”) that sought the input of 640 tenants. Of the 640 tenant households surveyed, 114 were behind on their rent – that’s 18% of survey respondents! Of those “behind on rent” 54 were unaware that they could seek help to have their rent paid through the Housing is Key Emergency Rental Assistance Program.
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