Royally Evil Landlords
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/realestate/How-to-Apply-for-Rent-Relief-in-New-York.html
For 35 years renting before moving to NYC we never had a dispute with any landlords: obtaining housing was never a worry, a reasonable portion of income was acceptable.
Since then in The Rotten Apple war with landlords, co-op and condo boards, mortgage predators, eviction proceedings, contractors are unending. Big jump in percentage of income with no end in sight.
How is this to change without abandoning the many pleasures and benefits of a bountiful metropolis for a return to pleasant places to live without fearing an attack of our homestead, our peace and quiet, our children?
What is it that induces the madness of property owners and developers to be enemies of the citizenry who sustain the place where they practice their evilry to restrict housing at reasonable cost to residents?
What has caused city. state and federal government to aid and abet this horror? Not just money, there are plenty ways to become wealthy without deliberately wounding, terrorizing, even killing residents with near impunity, as if making war on fellow citizens is hunky dory rather than a war crime.
No, there is a psychopathology driving this menace to a just and fair society, an inheritance of a way to hurt and harm, sadism in short, selected and enforced like medieval royalty claiming god-given rights to control property and exploit dwellers upon it.
Visit Landlord-Tenant court to shockingly see inhumane abuse of the need for a place to live by those running a royally-privileged enterprise.