Mary Phillips, 98, Evicted From San Francisco Apartment After Living There For 50 Years

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29. Apart from the now deleted post being morally reprehensible, it's also wrong on rights

There's no doubt that we have a general right to dispose of with property as we please, but it is not an absolute right, and it certainly isn't an absolute right when it comes to real property used for residential rentals. We have thousands of specific laws and ordinances dictating how and in what circumstances landlords can dispose of property used for residential rental income. Even if there was ONE law in ONE jurisdiction that made any such restriction, it would not be an absolute right in the United States. As it stands, courts have consistently determined that landlords cannot dispose of their residential rental properties willy-nilly. The problem here is not that restricting this manner of eviction would somehow void an absolute right. It's that the local ordinance is harmful to residents in favor of owners. But let's not pretend that property owners have an absolute right in the United States to dispose of their properties. It's simply false in history, in practice, and in law, existing only as abstract philosophy spouted by ignorant fanatics. This is indeed America. We have thousands of rental laws that protect the rights of tenants against the whim and whistle of property owners. That santroy79 doesn't seem to know this is only sign and symptom of his or her own ignorance about rights.