Various left wing political groups in Georgia, including the PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION and the far-left HOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE, are once again trying to resurrect the idea of repealing Georgia’s 39 year old statewide ban on rent control. The two groups recently sponsored a so-called People’s Town Hall at a church near Candler Park in DeKalb County, and the event attracted more than a hundred attendees.
The event featured a series of speakers making demands for rent control and additional rent subsidies such as the Section 8 Housing Voucher program. Landlords and real estate owners and investors were universally denounced as “enemies of the people” and “rich elites.” Not a single speaker ever mentioned the constitutional rights or private property rights granted to owners under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The common theme of this event was a plan to introduce legislation in the 2024 session of the Georgia General Assembly in January to repeal the statewide ban on rent control and to adopt into law a so-called “Tenant Bill of Rights”.
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