#landlord vampires

[feminist-space]

"Two landlord lobbying groups are petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn New York City’s rent stabilization law, which would allow further countrywide challenges to rent control. Real estate billionaires friendly with court justices are backing the move.

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Samuel Stein, a housing policy analyst at the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty organization in New York, said that if the Supreme Court were to overturn the rent stabilization law, “It’s the end of New York City.”

“Rents would go up significantly around the city,” he continued. “There will be a tremendous amount of displacement. You will have a lot of people leaving New York City, you will have a lot of homelessness, you’ll have a lot of overcrowding.”

A high court ruling wouldn’t just reshape New York, but would also pave the way for legal challenges to the dozens of rent control laws that exist around the country, and many more currently being considered. For example, in 2024, Californians will vote on a ballot measure to repeal the state’s ban on rent control.

At least one group petitioning the court to take the case has substantial ties to both Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and Justice Clarence Thomas benefactor, and Paul Singer, the hedge fund billionaire who provided an undisclosed private jet flight to Justice Samuel Alito.

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The challenge to New York’s rent stabilization law was brought by two major New York landlord lobbying groups: the Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) and the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP).

The two organizations spent a combined $4.7 million lobbying as they pushed to block the passage of a sweeping tenant protection law in 2019. The law, which expanded rent stabilization from just New York City to any locality in the state that chooses to opt in, made it more difficult for landlords to remove units from rent stabilization and added new protections to rent-stabilized units.

Just after the law passed, the groups sued the city and state, arguing that the new law and New York City’s existing 1969 rent stabilization law are unconstitutional.

The lawsuit from RSA and CHIP was dismissed by lower courts, most recently the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals. But the groups claimed that their intention was always to reach the Supreme Court.

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O Over the summer, a flurry of corporate lobbying groups and conservative think tanks submitted amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to take the case. One of these think tanks has close financial ties to the Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors.

The ties to Crow, a Texas real estate mogul, are salient as Congress urges the Justice Department to investigate Thomas’s alleged repeated violations of federal ethics laws, in part by accepting a series of undisclosed luxury gifts from Crow over two decades.

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CHIP and RSA themselves represent major corporate landlords in New York, even as they have often claimed to be the voice of mom-and-pop landlords. (The two groups are reportedly considering merging.)

Major real estate and corporate lobbying groups are urging the high court to hear the case, including the California Business Roundtable, the Real Estate Board of New York, the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Apartment Association.

The Supreme Court will decide on the petition on September 26. If they accept it, justices will decide the case during their 2023–2024 term."

[luisatherabbit]

I had to draw ashley in that pose

[the-writer-nerd-ro]

Everyone's always talking about the Brennan monologues what about the Erika monologues.

[talesofwhimsy]

frat boy vampire at a party shotgunning by stabbing a dude in the femoral artery

[urheartsamess]

assad ate up armand’s role in season 1 but the way this man is abt to deliver a lifetime performance in season 2 has me scaling the walls his scenes with claudia especially when the jaws of the story will start to close on her for good will be pure grief and madness to watch it’s gonna be impossible to defend his actions but also impossible to look away from him

[puppersfluid8xd]

”landlords r the worst, most leech-like, most vampiric thing out there”

woah woah woah back it up buddy, that’s an insult to leeches and vampires everywhere! What’d leeches and vampires do to deserve being compared to such a horrid thing as landlords??

[snowbatsims]

i am giving forgotten hollow THE SPACE IT DESERVES 👏

[travalistocata]

i wrote a fic about senna because she’s my cinnamon apple and i’m obsessed with her, actually. 4,040 words, no warnings apply, no ships.

[aneurizma]

First night in my apartment <3

[mellorocket]

If y'all love Dracula, I would highly, HIGHLY recommend the short horror story "I Made a Strange Deal To Pay My Rent, I Wish I Hadn't." It's about a guy who does the whole "what if a vampire made a deal with a human to give them food and housing in return for blood" and it goes Very, Very wrong in a way that made me physically sick to my stomach. Lighthouse Horror narrated it a while back, and listening to it even now still gives me chills.

[terraos]

I feel like 90% of my sims would be so much easier to be attached to if I could make my own cc for them. Instead of cc shopping all day for one specific thing that makes or breaks a character

[virovac]

Listen vampires, I’m fine with the “becoming a creature of the night” bit. 

But if you start ruining the mood with some political manifesto about how humans are cattle I’m taking out the stake mid-rant.

[nocturnalzhagreus]

Thanks for a certain someone who sent me delicious fanart of vamp the 'what we do in the shadows cro au' i've made a year ago has risen to my mind again

[cranberrybogmummy]

Vampire: *beset in all sides by an angry armed mob* please, don’t kill me, I’m a good vampire, I just feed off animals, I haven’t drunk human blood in 200 years! I reformed!

Leader of the mob: Wait, you’re a vampire?

Vampire: …yes?

Leader of the mob: oh this isn’t about that, this is because you are a shitty landlord.

[always-a-joyful-note]

"Have you considered eating the rich" is a line that I did not expect to hear on an advice column to a vampire listener who wants to go as vegan as they can....

[leporidaecervinae]

bloodlust as a metaphor for unrestricted desire/need for closeness my beloved. no wonder gay people latched onto that mythology so hard.