Michelle Clements Poet Rhyme

The Landlord Regime

The Landlord Regime

They’re sick of the homeless they say the city’s gone to pot
But let’s look at the statistics and let’s see want we have got
We’ve got landlords and slumlords charging an arm and a leg
And then they wonder why people all over are forced to beg
They want to see references with a down payment for heat
Where does one get that when they're coming off the street
You need to have a  credit check if you want to live here
We'll throw in a police record check just to make it clear
We only want the tenants who are well off and employed
And the undesirable jobless folk we’ll  just strive to avoid
So how is a person who's on a fixed income meant to deal
When expectations from landlords are clearly so unreal

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Rico Leffanta June 17, 2021 at 11:30 AM Ah, Landlords do have a plan for the homeless! They buy an apartment in a building they want to buy and rent it to an homeless or Section 8 person who screams and yells all night, forcing the employed to move elsewhere which enables the landlord to purchase other apartments and finally, the building, at a very discounted price.