HOUSE BILL: The Rent Is Too Damn High Act of 2017 (Failed to Pass)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Atlasian People's House of Representatives
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Sponsor: Simossad
House Designation: HB 1107

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to begin advocating for this.

[Representative simossad]

This is pretty simple. These are two measures that were introduced in European countries and that work quite well. Affordable housing is an issue that we have to address. It becomes harder and harder to find a decent place to live. This bill won't move mountains, but it is a small step into the right direction.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What is an "overstretched housing market"?

[Representative simossad]

What is an "overstretched housing market"?

No definition needed because the implementation is up to the states. My definition of an overstretched housing market is an area in which high demand for houses and apartments leads to barely affordable prices and rents.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So final vote time?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open on the underlying legislation, Representatives please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[OneJ]

Aye

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Aye

[Representative simossad]

Aye

[Drew]

Aye

[Leinad]

Nay

Sorry, can't get behind national rent controls. Hopefully the other members show up so we don't have this current crazy-lopsided vote.

[Heisenberg]

NAY

[Potus]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't think this is a policy we should set at this level of government. I am also dubious on the practical effects of rent controls generally, which lead to shortages of supply and degradation of quality of the housing as well.


So therefore: NAY

[Clyde1998]

This does have my support; I don't know if my vote would count as it would only replace Drew's positive vote in favour (effectively).

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

As simossad mentioned in his thread it would have been better if we could have discussed this more. I'd like to see the affordable housing issue come up again in the next session but I can't really support the idea of controlling rent prices and thus this bill as it stands.

Nay.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Egh this is a hard one (and I do see the controversy swirling around this), I like the idea of some rent controls (living in a 2 bedroom apartment myself in an urban area in Texas) but doing it a national idea may not be the correct thing to do, I'd like to see more regional control if this bill comes back up, which hopefully it will since there are basically no house bills in que, you could really just re-introduce this, if you wanted

[Representative simossad]

Yes, there will be another bill, but a different one.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I couldn't stay up late enough to close this yesterday morning.


Vote on Final Passage The Rent is Too Damn High Act of 2017:

Aye (4): Drew, OneJ_, Peebs and Simossad
Nay (5): Heisenberg, Leinad, NC Yankee, Pessimistic Antineutrino, and Potus
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):
None Members (1): Clyde

The bill has been rejected with time having expiring and a majority in the negative.

[Clyde1998]

I couldn't stay up late enough to close this yesterday morning.


Vote on Final Passage The Rent is Too Damn High Act of 2017:

Aye (4): Drew, OneJ_, Peebs and Simossad
Nay (5): Heisenberg, Leinad, NC Yankee, Pessimistic Antineutrino, and Potus
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):
None Members (1): Clyde

The bill has been rejected with time having expiring and a majority in the negative.

I didn't attempt to vote - I just made a statement.