US Progressive Democrats want to cancel rent and mortgage payments for the length of the pandemic - Progressives come up with another idea that sounds nice on paper but wouldn't work well in the real world


  • Democrats introduced a bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments for the duration of COVID-19.
  • The bill would help the 12 million Americans who owe $6,000 in average on back rent.
  • Lawmakers say the homeowner aid in Biden's stimulus plan isn't enough to help struggling Americans.
Although vaccine distribution is ramping up across the country, the Covid-19 pandemic isn't over, and Americans are still facing financial hardships. And while moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures have been instituted and repeatedly extended, progressive House Democrats want the government to do more.

They want to ease the burden on renters and homeowners by cancelling rent and mortgage payments for the duration of the pandemic.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota introduced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act on Thursday, which would cancel rent and mortgage payments nationwide through the end of the pandemic. The bill would ensure no negative impact on landlords' and homeowners' credit ratings and rental histories, and would establish a relief fund for landlords and mortgage holders to cover the losses of cancelled payments.

Although President Joe Biden extended previous moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions, Omar said in a statement that those are not long-term solutions.
"People across this country will be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in back rent when it ends," Omar said. "In some cases, local governments are allowing evictions to continue despite the moratorium. In other cases, landlords are going bankrupt due to lack of income. To avoid an even larger crisis, we must cancel rent and mortgage payments during this pandemic. This isn't a radical idea. It's what is needed to prevent an even bigger crisis."

12 million Americans currently owe $6,000 on average in back-rent, Omar said during a press conference on Thursday, and according to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, one in five renters is behind on rent, and since the pandemic began, over 10 million Americans have fallen behind on mortgage payments.




According to a legislative summary, main elements of the bill include:

  • All rent and mortgage holders are eligible for the payment cancellation, regardless of income or payment level;
  • The suspension would last one month after the end of the national emergency declared on March 13, 2020;
  • Fines would be imposed on property owners who violate the conditions of the payment suspension;
  • And the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development will establish three funds:
    • A landlord relief fund for the government to cover the expenses of the suspended payments;
    • A lender relief fund for mortgage holders;
    • And an affordable housing acquisition fund to ensure tenants have access to safe housing conditions regardless of a landlord's ability to pay for maintenance during and after the pandemic.
The $1.9 trillion stimulus plan that President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday included more than $20 billion in emergency rental assistance, $10 billion for homeowners behind on mortgage payments, and $5 billion for homelessness assistance. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington - a cosponsor of the legislation - said in a statement that with the 40 million Americans struggling to maintain their housing and the eight million who have been pushed into poverty, the government needs to step up.


She said: "It is not enough to sit back and just hope that a patchwork of eviction moratoriums keep families in their homes; we must cancel rent and mortgage payments during this crisis because housing is a human right - during a pandemic and always."
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Ah yes, screwing over landlords. I'm sure this would be great for the economy. 🙁
 
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lmao did they miss that Biden's $1400 checks can be seized by debt collectors? People who haven't been paying their bills aren't seeing a thin dime of stimulus money under Biden's administration unless they have a really chill landlord/mortgage lender.
It's has been very entertaining watching all these "Vote Blue No Matter Who" progs realize they were only ever useful idiots in the elites' crusade against pretty much the only politician in living memory to actually rattle the political establishment.
 
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I cannot even calculate how damaging this would be. Cities would go bankrupt due to lack of property tax. Small banks would fail and the government would have to pay out FDIC-backed payments, making our insane deficit even worse. Anyone with more than 250,000 in the bank would end up losing anything above that. There'd be a huge property sell-off, much of it being snatched up by foreign investors, greatly exacerbating just about every economic problem in the country.

Ilhan Omar must have an IQ of 70. And the morons who live in her district have to be even dumber than her to think she's worthy of her position.
 
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I have a feeling there will be a shortage in rental properties when all is said and done and will drive rents even higher. Big leasing companies will keep jamming people into pods, but I'd be real reluctant if I had a spare house to rent it out after all this.
 
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It's cute seeing the same retards crying about muh tax collection after Trump diminished tax collection by 700 billion dollars a year.
Anybody defending this clearly don't care about the millions of homeless people in America and the rising poverty. Same people who cry over raising the taxes too.
 
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Arm Pit Cream said:
It's cute seeing the same retards crying about muh tax collection after Trump diminished tax collection by 700 billion dollars a year.
Anybody defending this clearly don't care about the millions of homeless people in America and the rising poverty. Same people who cry over raising the taxes too.
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Just saying there's gonna be a lot of Surprised Pikachu faces when cities become insolvent.
 
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Tookie said:
I have a feeling there will be a shortage in rental properties when all is said and done and will drive rents even higher. Big leasing companies will keep jamming people into pods, but I'd be real reluctant if I had a spare house to rent it out after all this.
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There'll just be fewer independent landlords instead of big housing conglomerates, as was always intended. Various property management firms like Equinix and such have been making a killing off of the pandemic.
They're also big funders of egregious renter's rights campaigns in lefty cities that make tenant discrimination or eviction a legal hellhole, because they can afford to keep legal on retainer and it drives even more middle class landlords to sell to avoid the headache of 1 shitty tenant financially ruining them.
 
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Arm Pit Cream said:
It's cute seeing the same retards crying about muh tax collection after Trump diminished tax collection by 700 billion dollars a year.
Anybody defending this clearly don't care about the millions of homeless people in America and the rising poverty. Same people who cry over raising the taxes too.
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This would make general poverty rise even further, it's not just the landlords who would suffer. That's the biggest issue.
 
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Arm Pit Cream said:
It's cute seeing the same retards crying about muh tax collection after Trump diminished tax collection by 700 billion dollars a year.
Anybody defending this clearly don't care about the millions of homeless people in America and the rising poverty. Same people who cry over raising the taxes too.
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What about Trump?!

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
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