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g980 posted...

I agree that tenant protections are critical, but i dont agree that the onus is on landlords to campaign for those protections. It would be great if they did, but asking to be policed is not expected behavior in any industry, and i think its letting lawmakers - who's job is explicitly to define what ought to be policed - off the hook too easily

Blaming politicians is just moving downstream, because it's the industry associations largely getting people elected and explaining their votes to them.

I'm not letting them off the hook, part of the reason I expect supposedly good landlords to speak up is because they have influence that tenants do not.

I don't know if it's the same as any other industry. For one thing, I'm not sure housing and other things are comparable. For another, I don't know that most industries have this kind of power imbalance. Yes, the chamber of commerce is awful, but we have employee unions and even alternative business associations. What's that look like for landlords and tenants?

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