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I'm wondering what was Wu's
I'm wondering what was Wu's vision for how this eviction moratorium was supposed to end? Was she expecting the federal government to step up and pay 2 years back rent for everyone?
Dumb comment.
Even you know it’s dumb.
A ban on evictions
For a week or a month seems reasonable but this far along is indefensible. .
2017???
Why in the world does it take five years to evict a deadbeat?
The pandemic isn’t over .
The pandemic isn’t over . People will be out of work again once omnicron wave really hits.
Kind of shocking that this judge is willing to throw people out of their homes during a public health crisis.
give the Omicron world two weeks
and this idea will likely be seen differently as in more favorably.
Once again, greed and monetary gain …
…. trump public health needs. Evictions should only be allowed right now for tenants who are a threat to public health such as smokers and ones who create enough noise to harm neighbors or who don’t wear masks in the public areas.
This Bagdoian sounds like she lives in an ivory tower.
Not greed, basic logic
I’ll support forgiving/delaying rent once real estate taxes are forgiven/delayed by the city for landlords of tenants that are not paying their rent. Love how cities are saying eat the costs, but are not willing to eat the costs themselves.
Let’s be serious - most tenants that are not paying rent right now because of the pandemic will not all of a sudden pay two years plus back rent.
Weren’t you previously
Saying owning rental property is a risk and owners should just suck it up? Well living in someone else property also comes with risk, particularly when you don’t pay your rent.
Don’t want to get evicted, own and maintain your own living quarters.
Also sounds like a
Seventy-four year old widow who rents out the top unit of her two family since her daughter moved out and needs the last 20 months of rent to continue paying her taxes and her tenant’s heat and hot water and also to hire a roofer to deal with the leak in her kitchen. At least among the people on my block, that’s who she sounds like, but ymmv.
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You forgot the worst of all
Automobile owners
I would be happy to pay
I would be happy to pay additional taxes to cover the rent of anyone who is at risk of eviction due to pandemic-related job loss. I am absolutely opposed to sticking the entire cost on the landlord who happens to have a tenant who lost his/her job.
Bob, your offer is not only kind …
… it makes good common sense. We, most of us anyway, rely on people less well off than us. Their welfare affects our own welfare.
And what about
Landlords who have to pay their mortgage?
Judge admits bias but...
ignores her bias.
"(which this Court could not avoid)"
Every day jurors are impaneled they are asked whether they can be impartial. The fact that this judge had to apologize with this statement says to me there is inherent bias. That she also felt need to emphasize that the new mayor is somehow inappropriate in stating her goals for dealing with housing issues is not just absurd but borders on offensive. The judge is a judge. She does not have a right to use her professional position to deliver political criticisms. Privately she can call Mayor Wu whatever she wants. But when at the bench, when as the "Court" the rights of a any judge are limited to the job. Same as any employee. Or does this judge not realize she is an employee, and not some member of the Massachusetts governmental aristocracy?
What does the judge think will happen? The people evicted just disappear? No need to be concerned about more homelessness. Or that people who move in will automatically also not be affected by the fact that we are living in a pandemic.
Reminds me of a judge I overheard discussing a case - on her cell phone on the street. Which I overheard. When I mentioned to her this was seriously inappropriate she barked back with threatening to call police on me for harassing her.
Not all individuals in the jobs of judge deserve or should be (look at the Supreme Court for high proof).
The Court's language needs correction. Using the term "gifted" in a judicial decision?
Her concern about the image of the court sounds like a play to landlords. The reality is that the majority of landlords in Boston own large numbers of units.They are corporate entities. The minority are people who own just a few units. Told me by a city employee who specializes in helping the few small time landlords remaining.
My gut tells that this judge is full of her own fudge. She should be in a position of homelessness.
Law needs to protect everyone. Not just the people making the most profit or enjoying guaranteed housing.
Well said.
Thank you.
This judge spent most of her
This judge spent most of her career representing tenants in Brockton.
She had to say she could not avoid the coverage because judges are not supposed to specifically seek out news reports on cases they’re involved in.
The point of that section of the decision was that the City of Boston asked to be dismissed from the case on the grounds that the city had no control or influence over the BPHC and no connection to the moratorium. The mayor’s statements made that seem unlikely.
The Mayors office claims they had no input into the moratorium
And told the court the suit against them should be dismissed while also saying they were disappointed in the past decision and would appeal, the Judge was right to explain how she found out about the duplicitous statements.