Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It.
Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It.
FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.
Wow, this is really placing the blame on fema when it’s the landlords who are at fault. No one wants to accept blame for their shitty behavior.
Landlords are always complaining how hard it is to evict bad tenants or screen new ones, but the way they are willing to ditch long term tenants to chase a few bucks makes clear they are not taking their share of the risk. The long term tenant they already know should be more valuable. In fact, though, I think most of them are just bad at business and think the rules should help them succeed anyway.
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I agree that the lions share of the blame is on the landlords for sure but think because everyone knows their gonna be terrible we’d hope government agencies would do a bit better job of policing it so when they don’t it also needs to be called out so it can hopefully be improved.
I agree with you, but who is suppose to be the one who does something about it when these individuals try to do awful things? The government shouldn't attempt to rely on good faith from individuals and should instead leave no wiggle room for this kind of behavior.
It’s not fema’s job to cover all the bases. The tenant laws should have prevented that behavior. But no one wants to read an article about local laws, because fema makes headlines.