{"id":6389,"date":"2011-06-29T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2011-06-29T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:53:54","slug":"right-to-rent-will-the-obama-administration-finally-fix-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/29\/right-to-rent-will-the-obama-administration-finally-fix-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Rent: Will the Obama Administration Finally Fix Housing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Dean Bajer article\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/06\/21\/solution-to-the-housing-market-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Right to Rent: Will the Obama Administration Finally Fix Housing?<\/strong><\/a> by Dean Baker explains the concept as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept of &#8220;right to rent&#8221; has been floating around Washington for almost four years. Under this proposal, foreclosed homeowners would be allowed to remain in their house as renters, paying the market rent, for a substantial period of time (e.g. five years) following a foreclosure. While several bills have been introduced in Congress, President Obama may now have a new opportunity to take the lead on this issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea that such a proposal existed when I wrote my post <strong><a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"..\/2011\/06\/21\/solution-to-the-housing-market-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solution to The Housing Market Crash<\/a><\/strong> with a vaguely similar idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Right to Rent: Will the Obama Administration Finally Fix Housing? by Dean Baker explains the concept as follows: The concept of &#8220;right to rent&#8221; has been floating around Washington for almost four years. Under this proposal, foreclosed homeowners would be allowed to remain in their house as renters, paying the market rent, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}