Ron DeSantis has signed a bill allowing landlords to charge renters a monthly fee instead of a security deposit. This predatory move will disproportionately impact low-income renters and make it harder for them to afford housing.
, bans local governments from implementing rent control initiatives and gives tax breaks to developers who set aside affordable housing units in developments.
Another bill, H.B. 1417, would forbid local governments from implementing protections for renters thatHousing rights and progressive groups have raised concerns about H.B. 1417 and H.B. 133, saying that they would only worsenand give power and money to corporate landlords, straight out of the public’s pockets.
Several advocacy groups, including representatives from labor unions like the Florida AFL-CIO or groups like the Florida ACLU,last month urging him to veto both bills. H.B. 1417 “is ripe for abuse” by corporations from outside of Florida and is meant to kill renters’ efforts to organize solutions around housing, the groups wrote. “It is extreme, unnecessary, and dangerous,” they added.
In their letter about H.B. 133, the groups wrote that charging fees is not a solution to helping renters who can’t afford to pay an upfront deposit, and will only place them further into financial insecurity. They suggest that, at the very least, the fee be paid into a deposit that could be returned at the end of the lease.
“What it very much looks like is corporate greed. It looks like turning the state of Florida into a cash cow for corporations, for corporate landlords,” Sheena Rolle, senior director of strategy for letter signatory Florida Rising,
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