{"id":86733,"date":"2024-01-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86733"},"modified":"2023-12-29T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T15:25:48","slug":"unintended-consequences-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86733","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unintended&#8221; Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the many laws that went into effect on Monday, Governor Klink was proud to announce this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota gets pretty damn cold. But until now, we haven\u2019t had a statewide law requiring landlords to maintain a minimum temperature for rental units.<br><br>Starting January 1, Minnesota landlords will be required to keep rental units at a minimum of 68 degrees from October to April.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1740399736996430072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters:  68?  Sweet Jesus, what is this, &#8220;Cool Hand Luke&#8221; sweat fetish pr0n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandatory temperatures (outside the obvious safety habitability rules, which already exist) combined with rent control = less housing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or does nobody study economics anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many laws that went into effect on Monday, Governor Klink was proud to announce this: For starters: 68? Sweet Jesus, what is this, &#8220;Cool Hand Luke&#8221; sweat fetish pr0n? Beyond that? Mandatory temperatures (outside the obvious safety habitability rules, which already exist) combined with rent control = less housing. Or does nobody study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86734,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86733\/revisions\/86734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}