tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5287147033560336418.post4309196334714499423..comments2024-03-24T04:54:49.485-07:00Comments on The Dixie Pig: Week #3 - ERA & Predatory Lending Dies, HOA Reform Moves ForwardScott A. Surovellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14899160531211393625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5287147033560336418.post-52119309948827252872019-01-31T06:20:47.955-08:002019-01-31T06:20:47.955-08:00I appreciate your efforts on ERA and hope it will ...I appreciate your efforts on ERA and hope it will pass in the near future. One thing about apartment living in Northern Virginia is that many commercial apartment buildings raise rent on tenants that have been living in a building for an extended period while giving lower rent to new tenants. Many people are forced to change apartments within the same building or move due to their rent rising just because they have been living there longer than new tenants. They say that the longer a tenant is in place, the more expensive they become to the landlord. Why do tenants have to pay above market rates just because they have been living in their apartment for a longer period of time? To me this contributes to the lack of affordable housing in the area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5287147033560336418.post-39330107881259552952019-01-30T17:07:38.468-08:002019-01-30T17:07:38.468-08:00You support many good causes but Virginia will hav...You support many good causes but Virginia will have to elect more Democrats to make progress on most of them. One issue where the prospects could be better next year is reasonable gun regulation, because of the outpouring of support from the medical community, after the NRA responded to a medical journal article about firearm violence with a tweet admonishing “self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane”. Doctors and other medical personnel immediately began responding that firearm injury prevention definitely is in "their lane", as this article in the New England Journal of Medicine explains: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1815462?query=TOC Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07328220599427828535noreply@blogger.com