alt Hacker News> corrosive to the social contract
What we see is iterated prisoner's dilemma. Enough people have had their landlords play "defect" against them (rent rises in excess of wage inflation, evictions, failure to do maintenance, intrusion) that the public have started playing "defect" against the landlords.
Same as in a lot of American public life.
Also like, objectively the courts are on the side of evictions. They have lots of practice and your local PD will be happy to help. The process works just fine.
Most places have a pretty clean eviction process: You provide a very short notice, 14 days for non-payment, and then get a court hearing.
If landlords are upset that it takes a long time to get to a court date, sorry, get in line with the rest of us who can't get basic Justice because the US doesn't fund public services, which the court is.
Like what do you expect, that we just throw people out onto the street on your word? Do you not see how obviously that will get abused?