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News & Current Events May 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM

Landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Trump administration

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Landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Trump administration
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Landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Trump administration
A group of landlords are hoping to settle with the federal government over what they say are billions of dollars in losses due to the federal eviction moratorium in place for nearly a year during the pandemic.
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BigButtBeads May 3, 2026 +2881
I cant think of a group I sympathize with less
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MakingItElsewhere May 3, 2026 +643
Covid deniers, maybe?
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EvergreenHulk May 3, 2026 +479
Probably a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram.
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honeybunchesofaots May 3, 2026 +96
It's just a circle
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OkTransportation1152 May 3, 2026 +37
Can confirm. I worked in a real estate office starting Jan 2020 through early 2021. Real estate isn’t far off from landlords…they were awful to be around in the early days of Covid.
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Some_Conference2091 May 4, 2026 +14
Can confirm! Worked for a company that owned many large apartment complexes. The place was a case study in cronyism and failing up.
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cracquelature May 4, 2026 +1
Low T comment: this joke never lands. It’s devastating to the opponent and true but is more commonly repeated toward people either sympathetic to or vulnerable to the joke’s hurtful language.
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cracquelature May 4, 2026 +2
Skibidi Curkle
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No_Intention_8079 May 4, 2026 +7
Maybe, but a lot of Covid deniers are victims of misinformation and poor education on the subject. Yeah, that ‘choice’ does damage to the people around them too, but I would still say they’re a bit more sympathetic than landlords. Landlords know for sure what the f*** they’re doing.
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Malenx_ May 3, 2026 +104
I mean, there’s the proud boys suing the government because they claim j6’s convictions were politically motivated.
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MarketingSpecial6604 May 3, 2026 +38
At the same time that trump and his goons are trying to say the southern poverty law center funded all hate groups and racism among the right doesn't actually exist, along with the voting rights act they just destroyed was actually Jim Crow laws and how because conservatives love Clarence Thomas and wish every judge acted like him they are the least racist!
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Some_Conference2091 May 4, 2026 +6
__Funding Fascism__  It's the fastest way for them to grant corporate welfare to white supremacy groups. (Nationalists = Fascists)
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BasvanS May 3, 2026 +105
Pedophiles lead the way, but yeah, these people are high on the list.
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Low_Pickle_112 May 3, 2026 +84
My illustrious president manages to be both a slimy real estate goon who wants your money and a pedo. How efficient of him.
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DGlen 6 days ago +3
It did say Trump administration.
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Squire_II May 4, 2026 +15
Landlords are nothing more than parasites and need to be abolished.
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Spythe May 4, 2026 +7
It's because being an honest landlord just doesn't work anymore So it's either greedy pos or corporations I'm renting out my pervious home and with a recent repair i basically broke even the past 4 years I charged 1250 4 years ago and now it's 1400 for a 3/2 single home 1800 sq ft in basically houston Between insurance, property taxes and tenants... shit is pointless
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Spythe 3 days ago
Alright But like I said it's simply too difficult to be a fair landlord in today's time The "honest" get burnt and call it quits quickly
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Pannoonny_Jones 5 days ago +1
It’s the problem with literally everything. ETA maybe not literally everything but close enough
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Spythe 5 days ago +2
Yeah pretty much, anything that cost taxes or insurance is a losing game at this point. I broke even WITHOUT a mortgage since its an older paid off home. Pretty sure I actually lost money if I do the full math on every single thing. Just hoping to recoup once we are able to sell it All these industry that require insurance are basically done for normal Americans. It cost way too much, no business actually wants to pay and you're one big repair from losing an entire month of work or going under
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cracquelature May 4, 2026 +2
I mean, there are plenty, but I just can’t think about them right now at this crucial moment when landlords are teatless in Washington
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Snakestream May 3, 2026 +3
Billionaires, but I imagine that's more or less just a subset of the group
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DGlen 6 days ago +1
But sure why not waste more of our tax dollars lining Trump's pockets. You know he's gonna get a piece.
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Archer_solace 6 days ago +1
Business real estate owners!
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Hon3y_Badger 2 days ago +1
If they're in such dire straits they can sell a few properties. What they didn't get in rent they more than received in property value increases.
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Zyrinj May 4, 2026 +1
The group in the Epstein list?
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The_Peeping_Peter May 4, 2026 -7
Socialism for the landlords!
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dlxnj May 4, 2026 -7
Maoism intensifies 
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gaysaucemage May 3, 2026 +1251
These landlords probably jacked up rent enough in the past few years to more than cover those losses. Sounds like they’re crying over an unexpected event that hurt their profits, every other business has to deal with that possibility.
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the_Q_spice May 3, 2026 +582
They also likely got significant PPP loans they never repaid. Remember that whole debacle?
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Krewtan May 3, 2026 +143
Sure that has nothing to do with inflation. F****** podcasters got PPP loans. Basically any business owner got untold millions from the government regardless of how covid affected their business. 
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the_Q_spice May 4, 2026 +41
Has everything to do with inflation. Artificially pumped up the economy by basically subsidizing worker salaries, allowing companies to take massive profits. It’s honestly the main reason Amazon’s delivery model took off, because FedEx dropped them as a delivery contract just prior. Amazon is basically treading water now as far as their delivery fulfillment goes (going to get a \*lot\* worse come September when their volume increases by 50-70% because of both USPS and UPS not delivering their orders anymore BTW). Landlords also claimed a ton of contractors as their “employees”. Basically everyone got a taste of a 20-40% profit margin, and decided \*we want that \*\*always\*\*\*. So as that money disappeared, they kept increasing prices to maintain those \*inflated\* margins. It’s \*literal\* textbook inflation. It’s why Powell or the Fed hasn’t cut rates. Because they have to maintain a slightly higher rate of inflation to prevent hyperinflation or worse: deflation.
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texash0ldem May 4, 2026 +6
Why is deflation worse?
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Thisisntalderaan May 4, 2026 +16
It means it's profitable to sit on money and not use it anywhere in the economy.
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EntrepreneurKooky783 May 4, 2026 -1
If you define profit as more income, sure, but that's a loaded definition. But if you see profit as the utility gained from putting that money to use, a very different picture emerges.
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LooseSeal88 May 3, 2026 +66
As somebody who worked in bank fraud at the time, I can tell you countless people who didn't even have a business got them. They just said they had a business and got a loan. Some didn't been have an excuse. Others were like "Oh, I'm opening a barbershop" or what have you and it's like...okay, these aren't business start-up loans. These are loans to pay your existing employees during essential work shutdown...and you have no employees. You don't even have a building from which you operate.
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Eligius_MS May 4, 2026 +7
Shit was crazy and small businesses that actually needed the help tended to get little to nothing. My business' PPP loan wasn't even enough to cover one payroll for my dozen employees. And I only got that when they expanded the program because the first batch of funding was gone before the bank looked at my application the first day funding was available. Meanwhile large companies were applying for loans for each location they had separately and getting approved because they were large companies and seen as less of a risk ***for a loan guaranteed by the govt.***
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ffnnhhw May 3, 2026 +15
welfare queen
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ImCreeptastic May 3, 2026 +30
I remember there being committee to oversee the PPP process and Trump reneged on his promise that he totes wouldn't disband it.
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Perfect_Earth_8070 May 3, 2026 +8
You mean the debacle that created bad inflation? Of course we remember
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calmwhiteguy May 3, 2026 +71
Its akin to double dipping. Rent has trippled since 2016 in almost every city across america. They definitely got their money back. And almost everyone I knew still paid rent because every state provided unemployment. Everyone knew if they didnt pay mortgage/rent that they were expected to backpay at a later date so they kept paying with unemployment. We're putting tax money to everything except benefiting people under 55.
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SowingSalt May 4, 2026 +6
I blame high rent on NIMBYs, landlords wouldn't have the excuse if there were more homes.
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Low_Pickle_112 May 3, 2026 +118
These are the same people who always say they deserve more of the working class's money because they "took a risk". But when risk shows up, they come crying and bawling for a handout from the government, with the working class's tax dollars. Parasitic and hypocritical.
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FuggyGlasses May 4, 2026 +18
They also benefited from $46.5 billion in federal emergency rental assistance, which the Eviction Lab at Princeton University found in April was largely targeted to areas where landlords filed the most evictions before the pandemic. They benefit through and through.  And I'm pretty sure whoever on the suit will show up in the loan forgiveness program
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bugogkang May 3, 2026 +64
Landlords choose to make a living on other people's lives but expect to be protected from the cost of life happening. Just total spoiled brat mindset.
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MagnusCthulhu May 3, 2026 +62
Yeah, these fuckers moan and moan about the "risks" they take and then act f****** SHOCKED when they find out that taking a risk means you might not make a profit sometimes. Parasites, the lot of them. 
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CaptainMcFisticuffs2 May 3, 2026 +23
Please my landlord in 2020 was still increasing rent *during* covid, she wasn’t about to let a little global pandemic stop her from getting that bag. I guess she figured since I was frontline healthcare that I was still getting paid so why not?
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Alcohol_Intolerant May 4, 2026 +3
Mine jacked theirs up the maximum legal amount for three years in a row post covid restrictions. F*** em.
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lazydogjumper May 4, 2026 +2
I was thankful to still have a job through covid. I respectfully paid my rent in full and on time since I still had money during this time. They still raised my tent by 30% after covid, forcing me to move out.
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hrbeck1 May 4, 2026 +2
“Probably”…if your granddather had t***, he’d probably be your grandmother.
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toad_historian May 4, 2026 +1
I can't wait for property taxes to go away so they can make me pay more each month in rent.
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ArctycDev May 3, 2026 +577
Dude owns 240 units. F*** that guy. These types of people own huge amounts of property and (I would argue illegally) collude with other mega landlords/companies to raise prices through algorithmic rent pricing software. Their entire business model is taking advantage of people and making life worse for them.
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Round-Medicine2507 May 4, 2026 +30
These are the people who need to disappear and have their estates distributed. 
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rnobgyn 6 days ago +3
Exactly why Ken Paxton is under FBI indictment.
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No-Weakness-2035 May 3, 2026 +272
Landlords - always looking for another handout. They should consider getting jobs.
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d_smogh May 3, 2026 +146
I assume that means corporate landlords, meaning Trump's property empire
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IamMrBucknasty May 3, 2026 +18
That’s a bingo! Always follow the money and who benefits.
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unabashed_nuance May 3, 2026 +283
“I’m entitled to profits no matter what” gross.
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Barbarossa7070 May 3, 2026 +64
Living your paycheck to paycheck
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BasvanS May 3, 2026 +14
It’s the reward for all the risk they take!
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slamdanceswithwolves May 3, 2026 +5
It takes money to take money.
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NW-McWisconsin May 3, 2026 +59
And people still talk about "deserving" high profits because "entrepreneurs" take the risks.... As if. 😡
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ToastAndASideOfToast May 3, 2026 +26
If you "deserve" the rewards, you aren't taking any risks.
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yourlittlebirdie May 3, 2026 +58
“But what’s more important to me is that hopefully my investors will recover some of that money that they should have had coming in over the last six years.” Oh yes, what could possibly be important than this??
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DrDalekFortyTwo May 3, 2026 +27
I'm confused why he says the last 6 years. The moratorium wasn't that long.
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yourlittlebirdie May 3, 2026 +31
That’s how long they’ve been crying about their money.
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Sobeman May 3, 2026 +26
When landlords pay their PPP loans then they can talk
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EJoule May 3, 2026 +26
Trump will do it, and his own properties will qualify
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CelestialFury May 4, 2026 +6
The grift never ends with him. Too bad MAGAs are too stupid to realize that they're getting worked by Trump.
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4RCH43ON May 3, 2026 +78
These parasitic assholes don’t deserve shit.  They didn’t lose work, they just didn’t earn as much income on their investment, but jacked prices up in Covid’s wake.  Debt is outstripping GDP with no end of inflation in sight and they are a huge part of the problem why people can’t afford housing.   F*** these vultures and ticks.
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Niceromancer May 3, 2026 +79
F*** these leeches on society.
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Low_Pickle_112 May 3, 2026 +19
You occasionally watch movies, or play video games, or read books, where there's some disaster and yet there's that one guy who is still worried about money, who is still trying to get a little more green even as aliens are invading or whatever. And you think, how unrealistic, how stupid to include such a character simply for the sake of drama or advancing the plot. Covid killed millions of people, it was the disaster. And parasites like this, all they could think about was making it worse for their own gain. They wanted to evict people on to the streets during a global disaster. These are not reasonable people, not in good times nor bad, and it is high time civilization has a long and hard discussion about the institution of landlording. We've got a landlord as president right now, and how's that working out? They're not going to get any better.
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Rev-Dr-Slimeass May 3, 2026 +43
Most governments exist to provide services for people. You work, pay taxes, and generate revenue. In return, the government protects you. The US government is a machine designed to extract wealth and give it to those who are already wealthy. I generally think people who are proud to be Americans are stupid.
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acuet May 3, 2026 +13
Umm…..there were tax relief programs and PPP loans for ‘Business Owners’ such as this. A study was finally completed, because we didn’t have a situation like this big in some time, that in 2023 setup a Federal Insurance program for those owners. What more do they need at this point given most of those people will get money meanwhile renters and home owners that also took losses will not.
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Better-Context2246 May 3, 2026 +6
So should every business that suffered losses during Covid sue the government? What about small business owners that were affected by decreased traffic. Should we do an investigation and verify how much actual traffic came in any business? This is a ridiculous lawsuit.
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TheDukeofArgyll May 3, 2026 +6
Can the rest of us get paid for pandemic losses?
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GiltCityUSA 6 days ago +5
oh shut up already and lower the rents
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Nv2U May 3, 2026 +13
That’s a risk of the business. Corporate welfare needs to end, period.
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CauliflowerPlane2971 May 3, 2026 +11
landlords expecting someone else to foot their bills tracks
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SleepingToDreaming May 3, 2026 +5
So, they want to get kickbacks from a situation they were already making hand over fist from DESPITE the hardships and now that the housing market has shot up ten fold in revenues to favor THEIR greedy asses and they STILL need more?  F*** right off to the deepest darkest parts of hell, pricks.
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statslady23 May 3, 2026 +5
F'n Trump driving up the deficit to enrich his friends. Where is Congress? Impeach him already. 
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JoeRecuerdo 6 days ago +4
parasites doing what they do
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SpinDocktor May 4, 2026 +8
Because rich people can never, ever just take a loss.
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properfoxes May 3, 2026 +25
Oh no not the investors
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Daveit4later May 3, 2026 +7
Hell no. F*** them.   Investments have risks. F*** off 
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ZiggyMangum 6 days ago +4
The same folks telling people to move on and not use COVID as an excuse.
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Spooky-DivineDayze 5 days ago +4
Where are our tariff refunds, we're owed that much. F*** the landlords, p**** class of people.
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fafnir01 May 4, 2026 +7
So sick of the grifting. I want to be paid for the 2008 impact to my salary that has never recovered.
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Fit-Let8175 May 3, 2026 +3
Looking for a deal with Trump? Good luck with that.
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DrNonathon May 4, 2026 +3
My money machine didn’t go burrrr hard enough 😡
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29187765432569864 May 4, 2026 +3
so fine. Then they should all be audited by the IRS and be required to pay more taxes because that lost rent was a business expense, and deducted from their income. So sure, pay them, then prosecute them for fraud.
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Thatfoxagain May 4, 2026 +3
Oh god we had to do the bare minimum to keep people off the streets. Who could not feel for these guys /s
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Wizchine 6 days ago +3
What about landlords who lost money because of ICE raids?
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Particular_Peacock 5 days ago +3
Another taxpayer giveaway. The biggest winners are going to be corporate landlords like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. There’s a strong force majour argument for renters, and the US is presumed immune especially when it evokes emergency powers. And yet, here’s Trump negotiating a windfall using our treasury.
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tabrizzi May 3, 2026 +6
Will they return the covid loans that were never paid back?
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Expandexplorelive May 3, 2026 -1
Not everyone wants to own. People rent for various reasons besides not being able to afford to buy.
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Expandexplorelive May 4, 2026 +2
Owning means you have to deal with maintenance and are tied down to an area for a longer period of time. You really think almost no one doesn't want to deal with those?
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VillainNomFour May 3, 2026 -3
Oof youre going to hate basic economics.
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VillainNomFour May 4, 2026 -4
Huh? Your whole position is how you would readily step on the backs of others. Of course, its counter productive to what you say you want, but realizing that would take some critical thinking.
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Weightmonster May 4, 2026 +5
Didn’t they already have PPP loans.  If people didn’t pay their rents, don’t you sue them? Just because there was an eviction moratorium, doesn’t mean rent isn’t due. 
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RabiesSurvivor710 May 4, 2026 +4
But somehow student loan forgiveness is a bad thing. F*** these assholes.
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Tight_Ad_7521 May 3, 2026 +5
Privatize the gains socialize the losses. 
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ZachMartin May 4, 2026 +5
Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich
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Perfect_Earth_8070 May 3, 2026 +2
And he will 100% give it to them
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Bunch_of_Shit May 4, 2026 +2
Is he going to pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners for them losing their “property” at the end of the civil war as well?
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Slggyqo May 3, 2026 +5
Why? they should have cash stored away for a rainy day. They already got paycheck protection act checks and such. And they clearly have assets-240 units worth of assets. They should get nothing. The CDC in fact SHOULD have the right to manage private industry during a global pandemic.
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Fomdoo May 3, 2026 +4
Were those landlord on Epstein's island? No. Bummer. No payday for you.
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awkwardnetadmin May 3, 2026 +2
They forgot to buy some Trump Coin before making the request.
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chimpyjnuts May 3, 2026 +4
Ah, the good old Socialism!
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Yodabrew1 May 4, 2026 +5
2 words to them… get fucked.
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elmundio87 May 4, 2026 +3
landlords can suck a fat one
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Round-Medicine2507 May 4, 2026 +3
OK, I want to be compensated 15 million for things that have happened in the world and to me too!
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tedecristal May 4, 2026 +3
Handouts, handouts. The party of handouts
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Excellent-Ad-7996 May 4, 2026 +2
Losses? My old complex raised rent by $400, 100, 75, 80, started charging water, then trash + admin fees once the moratorium was lifted. F*** them twice with a dry condom
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4dxn May 3, 2026 +4
It was an eviction moratorium, not a rent moratorium. Why aren't they going after the people that owe them money?
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LevelPerception4 May 3, 2026 +9
Probably uncollectible. A judgment against the former renter is worthless if they don’t have the money to pay it. 
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Infamous-Sky-1874 May 3, 2026 +6
Also, it costs money to go after them. Better to appeal to the King of the Slum Lords to get the government to go after them for you.
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Juunlar May 4, 2026 +4
Every landlord is a leech on society
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KoldPurchase May 4, 2026 +2
When they make more money than usual, would they agree to a landfall tax?
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al323211 May 4, 2026 +3
I would like the government to pay me for my pandemic losses then. And all my friends that also lost their jobs while they’re at it.
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Photeus5 May 4, 2026 +3
Rent seekers are seeking more rents?  Who could have seen that coming?
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Icy-Computer-Poop May 4, 2026 +3
Landlords when socialism benefits tenants: This is bullshit! Communism! Anti-American! Landlords when socialism benefits themselves: Can I have some sociawism pwease!
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thefanciestcat May 4, 2026 +3
Republicans just can't stop f****** leeching.
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Wernher-von-Kerman May 4, 2026 +4
Maybe try getting a real job instead of being a parasite on society.
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snapchillnocomment May 3, 2026 +3
This is what happens when you don't tip your landlords each month. Those people work hard to cash your cheques.
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Kinsin111 May 4, 2026 +1
If only landlords had real jobs instead of stealing the money other people actually worked for.
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Herkfixer May 4, 2026 +1
Let's see how many Congresspeople and Trump admin people are going to be first in line and get the largest paydays.
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Alternative-Dot-884 May 4, 2026 +1
Justice dept favoring land owners? Hmmm
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FuggyGlasses May 3, 2026 +1
Landlords are hoping to recoup as much as $1.5 billion — a fraction of what the industry lost. Lmaooooooo aim for the sky!
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MegaMaster1021 May 4, 2026 +1
They think Trump is going to help them 😭
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Beginning_Ad8663 May 3, 2026 -1
Liberal Democrat here I run a low cost rental apartment complex. I charge still today 650.00 for a one bedroom unit I pay for water power and internet access I have mostly older (plus 65) men most are tradesmen living on minimum wage social security. I had one younger guy that did not pay a single penny of rent for a year while living there ( rent free). He moved in while awaiting a large workers compensation settlement. He received it three months before the no eviction order was ended. He received $300k. He owed me $8,000.00 as soon as that check hit his bank account he spent $100K on a class c motor home. Now. To run an apartment I have bills I have to cover I still worked through the pandemic. If I didn’t I would not have been able to cover my payments. He scammed me as well as work comp because of government actions at the least the government can do is repay me. Not all landlords are scum bags most of the scumbags are commercial real estate owners
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greystripes9 6 days ago +2
That’s what I have heard during that time. A pretty successful realtor said he wished he had not owned any rentals at all. He could not even ask them to pay the rent because it would be harassment or get the tenants to apply for rent help because that was also considered harassment. The people who scammed were the educated types who knew how to game the system.
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river_tree_nut May 4, 2026
Capitalize the gains, socialize the losses. It’s neither capitalism nor socialism, but some twisted combo that only benefits the rich.
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Briack89 May 3, 2026 -11
I am not sure why so much hate. My husband is a landlord, we had a small building in manhattan 5 stories commercial, had mortgage on it, so once covid came all the tenants stopped paying any rent, they stayed in business partially( took advance of the situation )for almost 2 years no rent but mortgage, taxes all other bills never stopped so my husband could not afford that building anymore and bank took it(we had this building for 20 years). A lot of small landlords lost everything during covid ( a lot of people did) !
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mercurialheart May 4, 2026 +9
Omg, an investment lost money. Those are the risks!
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No-Opposite-6620 3 days ago
Crooks expecting money from a crook without any kind of understanding of leverage needed is something.
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jcouball 1 day ago
Who will think of the Land Lords? I guess they like socialism when they are the ones to receive the benefits.
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