Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.
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