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They haven't done anything for decades...
But we should believe them now in the run up to an election that after the next election they'll really do something.
They've been saying the same thing as far back as I can remember, but as soon as their elected they go back to ignoring it.
We need to get the Republicans and neoliberals out of office if we want actual progress. Neither of them will actually fix this shit, because the people donating them money don't want it fixed.
The most we'll get is billions to real estate moguls to subsidize them building high end housing that doesn't address the issue.
Sometimes they only campaign on "the rent is too damn high!"
real estate/developer lobbies in most places fund all candidates in the US. Its hard to overstate how manipulative they are.
NYC finally did something in 2019 about the predatory renting practices, such as having the tenant pay the exorbitant broker fees (typically 2x or more of monthly rent, which is around $2600-3000/month), this was now the landlord's responsibility.... Then in 2022 they repealed it.
Get real estate developers and land lords out of the legislatures. Make it such a dirty word that being found out means your campaign is over.
Let's not stop there. Get big corporations out of the legislature. End Citizen's United.
If the poor folk could organize, pool money together, and spend time lobbying, we might have a chance. We suck at organizing, we're too short on cash just trying to stay afloat, and we've no time to be spending lobbying, either.