- Study: Increases in state minimum wages significantly reduce the incidence of renters defaulting on their lease contracts by 1.7 percentage points over three months, relative to similar renters who did not experience an increase in the minimum wage. This represents 10.6% fewer monthly defaults. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119021001030 57 comments science
- 116th Congress 2d Session — H.R. — To suspend obligations of residential renters and mortgagors to make payments during the COVID-19 emergency, and for other purposes — In the House of Representatives https://omar.house.gov/sites/omar.house.gov/files/bill%20text%20-%20rent%20and%20mortgage%20cancellation%20act%5B1%5D.pdf 17 comments politics
- AOC’s Plan to Decommodify Housing - With a new bill that complements the Sanders campaign’s policy, the representative wants to protect renters, not landlords. https://www.thenation.com/article/aoc-sanders-housing-rent/ 70 comments politics
- The open sore of America's political sickness - "Only in the warped world of American politics could a real-estate billionaire who owes a significant part of his fortune to preying on working-class renters pretend to be representing working people against the establishment." http://socialistworker.org/2015/09/24/open-sore-of-a-sick-political-system 41 comments politics