New Tennessee eviction appeal law could cause hardship for low-income renters, advocates say
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A new state law requires renters to come up with a year’s worth of rent to appeal an eviction.
  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
    4·
    3 years ago

    They really are waging a war on the poor, mask off. I wonder if there’s a tipping point for how brazen that they can get before they’ll lose republican voters.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
      3·
      3 years ago

      “They left me owing rent, and they left me with about three times the damage to the house than what the deposit covered,” Bell said.

      i like how it then logically follows–because this guy had an anecdotal bad experience with a tenant that he could have totally made up for all we know–that if you rent you should basically not have the right to contest an eviction