Rachel Maddow Thanks Sheriff Who Suspends Evictions ('Humane')

[Hissyspit]

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MSBNC The Rachel Maddow Show - Oct. 9, 2008: Rachel praises Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, IL.

[walther]

1. I have to differ with her.

These properties are in foreclosure. To allow people that declare they are paying rent or have paid rent to someone to stay in the home means that the mortgage holder gets hurt even worse....meaning they will come back and expect more bailouts.

I pity a tenant in a home in foreclosure but we have to be realistic. All this does is tie the foreclosure owner, the bank, hands even more and cost them money.

These homes have to get on the market, the prices established, and purchased by new owners. Allowing tenants in the home while the bank is unable to evict them means the only one getting anything out of it is the owner not making payments to the bank, but getting rent.

[proudleftists]

2. Throw Them in the Streets

Is the typical GOP reply.

[Mind_your_head]

3. The bank should take the rent money during or after the foreclosure process...

as Paris Hilton recently said in her video, "some money is better than no money!"

The building would probably be more attractive to a potential buyer because the building already 'comes' with good, established rent-paying tenants! A new buyer could expect to be receiving rents IMMEDIATELY - not having to advertise, wait for, establish new renters.

[walther]

4. You assume the "tenants" really are paying rent instead of just saying they are...NT

[Mind_your_head]

5. Sheriff Dart says he will still evict people who aren't paying their rent.

So, yes, I have every right to correctly assume that these tenants are paying their rent.

Next?

[progdonkey]

12. maybe because they're not being evicted for failure to pay rent?

Did you even watch the segment or read about this story in other places? Maybe your troll mind just has problems understanding the simple difference between being evicted by the landlord for failure to pay rent and being evicted by the bank because the landlord has gone into foreclosure.

Either way, goodbye, troll.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Mr. Walther

First, welcome to DU.

I am in agreement with Ms. Maddow and I beg to differ with you.

All this does is tie the foreclosure owner, the bank, hands even more and cost them money.

Horsepucky.

As a progressive, I care more for the real, flesh and blood people who live in those apartments and have been dutifully paying their rent. As for the artificial person called "the Bank," I don't give two bits for it, especially not these days.

There is no reason the tenants cannot continue to pay rent to the bank, which now owns the building, and then to the new owner of the property once it is sold.

[walther]

7. aw hell, let's just give the tenants the house, eh.

[kwolf68]

9. You fail

Did you read Jack Rabbit's post? I can't believe it...13 posts in and this the statement you wanted to make.

[bobbolink]

13. Absolutely, go from dumping them in the street to giving them the house.

Great logic.

It's the logic I get from RWers all the time.

[minfellman]

10. How typical

Worrying obout property values and banks that caused most of the problems anyway. Winter is coming and you want to throw people on the streets. Fuck the banks, fuck the property "values". What about human values? These places just end up being boarded up all over my city while people go homeless. It would be a simple matter for a judge with some balls to escrow the money-and who in the hell is gonna appeal it-these stupid Republicans whose business mastery is about the same as their governance. Fuck them all. All these boarded up properties should be turned into housing for the poor. We don't need more.

[bobbolink]

14. thank you.

I appreciate knowing that there is a bit of humanity left somewhere.

[WoodyD]

8. Keeping the tenants in place

is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. Empty buildings fall down. They become home to rodents, rot and mildew. Plus the tenants have done nothing wrong. This makes moral and economic sense. OMG, the Repugs will hate that!

[4lbs]

11. These were law-abiding rent payers, who were keeping up with their rent.

So, therefore, they would rightfully think everything was OK.

However, they would come home to find their possessions in the street, or most of it stolen as a result, and be totally confused.

It seems the landlords knew the property was in foreclosure but did not notify the rent payers.

This is what the Sheriff was referring to. Those people who were paying rent and weren't told by the owning bank or the landlords that the property was in foreclosure.