subignition

Toss a coin, to your admins...

Maybe. I think most people are going to see their bills increasing by more than this minimum wage increase though

1. Nothing you posted actually addressed my question. ("Why do you think it's reasonable to assume people probably can't get kicked out of their apartments?") There is no jurisdiction with a longer notice period than 30 days for nonpayment of rent. Given that this thread is about Americans struggling with debts, your various complaints about "renovictions" and "mom and pops" as you're calling them are some nice straw men. We're talking about people being unable to afford rent here, and small-time landlords, while certainly not perfect, are equally if not more likely to display some humanity and actually work with someone who is struggling financially.

2. It's indirect because you likely knew you'd be ridiculed for praising soulless corporate landlords directly, so you chose to focus on how much worse "mom and pops" are instead and make your (irrelevant) point implicit. Or maybe you had some bad experiences with independent landlords and derailed yourself ranting about that before you could actually address the question?

3. Back to the actual topic, it's real hilarious that your proposed solution to your own hypothetical is "just file bankruptcy and keep your car/primary residence", you don't HAVE a primary residence to keep if you're a renter. Bankruptcy proceedings also cost time and money that someone who is already struggling with rent probably doesn't have...

One could be very generous and say that you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but I think you're just trolling tbh. Or way too high to be posting about serious topics.

This is the weirdest indirect bootlicking of soulless corporate landlord companies I've ever seen.

you have an apartment you probably can’t be kicked out of.

Mind expanding on why you think this is a reasonable assumption? There was an eviction moratorium at the height of the pandemic, but that has been over for more than two years now. The required notice period for an eviction varies with jurisdiction, but generally isn't more than a month or two, and if you try to drag it out a little further by refusing to vacate and forcing them to take you to court, having an eviction on your credit report makes looking for future rental accommodations Super Hell™.

I appreciate your optimism.
You can lead a horse to text, but you can't make him read

While I appreciate the nitpick, I think it's likely the case that "kills a bunch of people" is also something we want to avoid...

Deformity

For every single-family home a hedge fund owns over a certain limit each year, it would be subject to a tax penalty, the revenues from which would be used for down payment assistance programs for those seeking to buy their first home from a hedge fund.

Sounds like even if this gets passed, whatever penalties get assessed are just going right back to the hedge funds anyway? And it's a 10-year plan... Kinda sounds like a whole lotta nothing. Disappointing.

Go home Tucker, you're drunk.

[...] the question is ambiguous. There is no right or wrong if there are different conflicting rules. The only ones who claim that there is one rule are the ones which are wrong!

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/pedagogy/ambiguity/index.html

As youngsters, math students are drilled in a particular
convention for the "order of operations," which dictates the order thus:
parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division (to be treated
on equal footing, with ties broken by working from left to right), and
addition and subtraction (likewise of equal priority, with ties similarly
broken). Strict adherence to this elementary PEMDAS convention, I argued,
leads to only one answer: 16.

Nonetheless, many readers (including my editor), equally adherent to what
they regarded as the standard order of operations, strenuously insisted
the right answer was 1. What was going on? After reading through the
many comments on the article, I realized most of these respondents were
using a different (and more sophisticated) convention than the elementary
PEMDAS convention I had described in the article.

In this more sophisticated convention, which is often used in
algebra, implicit multiplication is given higher priority than explicit
multiplication or explicit division, in which those operations are written
explicitly with symbols like x * / or ÷. Under this more sophisticated
convention, the implicit multiplication in 2(2 + 2) is given higher
priority than the explicit division in 8÷2(2 + 2). In other words,
2(2+2) should be evaluated first. Doing so yields 8÷2(2 + 2) = 8÷8 = 1.
By the same rule, many commenters argued that the expression 8 ÷ 2(4)
was not synonymous with 8÷2x4, because the parentheses demanded immediate
resolution, thus giving 8÷8 = 1 again.

This convention is very reasonable, and I agree that the answer is 1
if we adhere to it. But it is not universally adopted.

If they are partners they should be collaborating to set the standards they find reasonable/comfortable and beyond that it's nobody else's business.