It’s been nine months since Minnesota landlords have been able to evict people for non-payment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charity? Well, sure – and an easy one for the State to pay for, since it’s all coming out of the pockets of landlords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Democrat parlance, landlords are an easy, cheap villain to demonize in order to rally support among renters. They’ve been the kick toy of both cities’ administrations for decades. The small, private landlord – a working stiff renting out his parents’ old houses or his own investment property – has been treated as a convenient Man in Black for a generation; there are urban non-profiteers who literally cannot refer to these people as anything but <\/em>“slumlords”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And the campaign has largely succeeded – both Minneapolis and Saint Paul have done a fine <\/em>job of zoning, coding and harassing the small landlord out of existence in the Cities (replaced largely with public housing authorities who are, frequently, slumlords, by the way). <\/p>\n\n\n\n So – is the “eviction moratorium” an act of charity, or just another way for the DFL-addled state to help the cities finish extincting the small landlord? <\/p>\n\n\n\n