There aren't many upsides to our long, and still ongoing, global pandemic. But if there is something that could be considered a positive development throughout all this, it's been COVID's ability to lay bare in blunt, unambiguous terms, the latticework of inequities and injustices upon which much everyday life is based. Looming large among those inequalities is the issue of rental properties, and the landlords to whom flow huge sums of money for little, if any, actual labor.
While both the federal and local governments have stepped in to various degrees to ensure renters — many of whom are unable to pay rent due to the economic downturn spurred by the pandemic — are protected from life-threatening evictions during COVID, a Florida landlord has taken a different, more craven approach to public health. He's threatened to evict anyone living or working in his 1,200 Miami-area units who hasn't been vaccinated.
