Letter: Former affordable housing provider says gov't doesn't protect rights
As San Jose City Council moves forward with consideration of more rent control and new onerous regulations for housing providers, Joseph Weinstein (former housing provider) puts non profits' and advocates' claims that "housing is right" into a new light.
Dear Opp Now:
As long as we have non-profits whose existence is based upon tenant rights we will continue to foster unfair and unethical regulations on housing providers. All their claims that tenants have the right to housing negate the rights of the housing providers who supply that housing.
What other business in the USA is told by the government that they have to provide their service for free (eviction moratorium), then refuse them the right to raise prices to cover that loss. That is why many are now selling their rental properties in CA. We provided Affordable Housing since 1985, most rents were substantially below market, some as low as 50%. We refused to stay in business when the government failed to protect our rights.
Joseph Weinstein
A former local affordable housing provider
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