“The corporate landlord will also be required to clearly disclose its leasing prices, establish policies and procedures to handle security deposit refunds fairly, and stop other unlawful behavior.”
Lina Khan is one of my favorite people in the US government right now, the FTC has been doing such good work under her
Our hero
So I’ve gotten that impression but admit I haven’t been following closely. Could you give like a tldr top 5 or something? Hard to Google that kind of thing
- Generally stopping mergers to prevent monopolies such as preventing Nvidia from buying ARM in 2022
- Right to repair being FTC policy from July 2021
- Big pharma drug prices being too high (e.g. insulin and inhalers).
- She at least tried some stuff against Meta and Microsoft (but those were unsuccessful) but at least she tried-more than any previous FTC chair anyway.
- Right in this article, housing prices, this isn’t the first landlord/owner class she’s gone against.
So while you lemmings are whining and crying about landlords, please try to remember, this is your fucking enemy. Not some dude renting a couple of houses and barely breaking even.
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First year I rented, I wouldn’t even have wanted to own a house. Leave the person with exactly one small apartment they rent and constantly maintain with excellent standards alone.
Wow, looking through the article, this company looks pretty damn scummy.
Go get’em, Lina!
