{"id":89600,"date":"2025-05-07T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89600"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:39:37","slug":"the-devil-is-in-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89600","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Is In The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, the Saint Paul City Council appears to be rolling back its stupid, ruinous &#8220;rent control&#8221; ordinance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;sort of.\u00a0 <\/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\">Rent control in St. Paul will likely be scratched today for any building built after 2004. Council Members Nelsie Yang and HwaJeong Kim plan some last-minute amendments to salvage what they can of it. Council President Rebecca Noecker isn\u2019t having it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdJbE2ob8i\">https:\/\/t.co\/KdJbE2ob8i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Frederick Melo, Reporter\/Axolotl (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1920085169521795275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8211; only the buildings built after 2004?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m no expert, but this sounds to me like it&#8217;s a plan to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make it impossible to pay the upkeep and taxes on older buildings, and so to<\/li>\n<li>Squeeze the owners out into selling cheap, so as to<\/li>\n<li>Build more multi-unit housing, which of course steers money to the non-profits that employ the St. Paul DFL&#8217;s farm club.\u00a0 Because they <em>always\u00a0<\/em>get a taste.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Saint Paul is basically Chicago on the Mississippi.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Saint Paul City Council appears to be rolling back its stupid, ruinous &#8220;rent control&#8221; ordinance&#8230; &#8230;sort of.\u00a0 But &#8211; only the buildings built after 2004? I&#8217;m no expert, but this sounds to me like it&#8217;s a plan to: Make it impossible to pay the upkeep and taxes on older buildings, and so to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600","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=89600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89601,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600\/revisions\/89601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}