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Michael Arturo's avatar

As someone who went through eviction twice, I empathize. And anyone who calls you "Childish" for getting emotional isn't in their right mind, but a forebearer of an eviction-driven economy themselves. Going forward, every one of us who isn't an owner is likely to be evicted at least once in their life. And those services that are set up in every city that act like they're trying to prevent evictions - those "housing is a right" props - are actually there to expedite evictions. I know, I've been through the process, I've been to the meetings, you begin to see the hypocrisy even among those who claim their intentions are good. It's become a shell game of shuffling people around and allowing the loose ones to fall into homelessness. It's big business, hollowing out the core of every community, and creating divisions. Isolating people. Forcing them to endure another level of economic hardship. It sucks. It's a year or two of new adjustments that have rippling effects on one's health and family.

It's life in the Casino Economy where the House always wins.

My only advice is to keep your wits about you and fight through it.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Why should anyone expect empathy from members of a species that should be biologically classified as a global parasite that steals resources from the extended natural system, harming it without a scintilla of positive reciprocation. (Excepting aboriginals that leave symbolic gifts for Nature, in gratitude). If for centuries we have crapped in, peed and otherwise massively toxified the bio-geo-chemical system that underlies our existence—for profit—it seems unlikely that we'd suddenly ignore that pattern in treating our fellow humans. Landlord behavior is merely an extension of the larger consumptive narcissistic ethos that dominates human "thinking". I knew way back when that I could never be a landlord even if I owned an appropriate property because I'd rejected that ethos. And selling my small house now because the market would return my initial investment with profit has zero attraction for me because I'd subsequently have to rent. And acquiring a "landlord-entrepreneur" at this life phase, after the horror stories I recall from my twenties and thirties would be a horror not worth a million bucks profit.

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