Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) joined fellow Democrats last week in calling for the passage of the Housing Emergencies Lifeline Program (HELP) Act to “crack down” on some evictions while barring the use of evictions on credit reports. Pressley declared that “evictions are an act of policy violence.”
Promoting the act, Pressley said:
“Eviction is an act of violence, and we have to do everything to prevent it. It is devastating for the families. It degrades the health of communities. There is great stigma associated with it. It affects your credit score. Housing is a human right. It is a predictor of health outcomes. It’s essential for social and economic mobility…”
The HELP Act would prohibit the credit reporting of evictions and utility debt. That is a major indicator for credit companies and would deny access to the information for those reviewing the financial history of people seeking loans and other benefits.
It would also fund legal counsel for people contesting evictions. It is co-sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D., Cal.)
Critics ripped into Pressley over her family’s reported millions held in rental properties.
The true concern, however, should be in Congress dictating the removal of key financial history from debt reports. It is one thing to provide assistance to renters. However, these companies play a key role in allowing a wide array of businesses to judge the risk of individuals seeking contracts, leases, or loans. Forcing the non-reporting of such records undermines the faith and utility of such reports.
The manipulation of financial reports is a dangerous precedent in politics. Not long ago, some states, like New York, mandated the expungement or sealing of criminal justice records to help people secure jobs.
Yet this is an effort by Democrats to artificially improve credit reports by removing evidence of past evictions or lease defaults.
At the same time, landlords and others are dealing with a squatting crisis where people use existing evictions laws to delay their removal from properties.
In New York, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s previously called to seize unoccupied luxury condos in New York and give them to the homeless. After this election, he then appointed Cea Weaver as the new director of the Office to Protect Tenants. Weaver previously stated a need to ‘impoverish the white middle-class’ and called homeownership “racist” while demanding the seizure of private property.
The videos Weaver echoed thread-worn socialist mantras:
“I think the reality is, that for centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good…And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently and it will mean that families – especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well – are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.”
Weaver and others in the Mamdani administration view “private property, including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of White supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”
Pressley’s view of evictions as an act of violence adds to this rising rhetoric at a time when more young people are embracing socialism. In my book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.” I discuss this trend in Western countries.
Recent polls show sixty-five percent of Democratic voters have a favorable view of socialism. An even greater percentage of young Britons want to live under socialism, and 72 percent favor nationalization of industries.
As my book discusses, the work of Adam Smith was immediately embraced by the founders as the perfect economic theory to advance their political theory. Smith’s idea of the “invisible hand” offered an idea of individual economic freedom where whole economies were driven by the individual tastes and choices of citizens.
The free market was viewed not as “violence” but liberation for individual citizens in achieving true independence.
how much of HER OWN money is the dimwit contributing?
If you want to get away with robbing the bank, become the bank president. If you want to write illegal laws, become a congress critter.
Presley needs to star as “Vyger” in a woke remake of that Star Trek movie with the bald actress.
What violence is being visited upon a 89 y/o widow renting out a small 2-bedroom home for need of the income when deadbeats not only stop paying the rent but refuse to move without an arduous eviction process? And when finally compelled to leave, she discovers the toilets broken with a sledgehammer, drywall destroyed in every room, carpets and walls smeared with feces! And the perpetrators? They walk off scot-free. Only in America
These people are out-and-out communists and traitors and fully justify why our predecessors sought them out to prosecute them for their sedition.
Pressley and her racist nonsense, it should be called “Help Yourself to some more of Whitey Money Act.” They specifically frame this Bill as a “White Supremacy” issue sidestepping the fact of all other landlords that are not White. By doing this, they are using their offices to persecute and discriminate against all White people that may own rental properties. They are violating all white peoples civil rights. The
only color Capitalism sees is green yet after all the billions wasted on the Democrats race based pandering here we go again.
Why someone ought to snatch her bald headed! Oh wait?!
When I was a renter, I mostly had decent landlord/property managers. But I did have one who was bad. He refused to refund my security deposit despite the fact the unit was damage free and spotless when I vacated. He said the oven was not clean enough for a new tenant, which was a flat out lie. I had lived there for five years and never been late on a rent payment. (The ownership changed hands during the five years I lived there, so the landlord who was screwing me was not the original one.)
After he verbally rejected by demand to return my security deposit, I put it in writing. I wish I’d taken pictures or had a witness willing to attest the place was clean, but I did not. He responded to my letter effectively telling me to sue him. He knew I was being transferred in my job out of state, so that was not practical. I had to drop it. In my mind he stole that money.
I think property law in many states is heavily weighted toward the rights of the property owner. I don’t know how to even the scales to make it fairer. But Pressley’s ideas expressed here are NOT the way.
Take it to the BBB or Dear Abby.
Freedom of speech.
The writer of the credit report may state whatever he wants.
It is illegal to inflict bodily injury or property damage by any means.
…and the brotha on a “free” “affirmative action” spaceship ride said, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Oh, —- yeah, we can if you just stop stealing money–$26 trillion since ’64–outta my check for admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
The slaves said all they wanted was their freedom.
Looks like they wanted a whole lot more—one thing after another, $26 trillion since the advent of the “civil rights” era—and some anti-American idiots (i.e., communists) decided to give it to them with other people’s taxpayer money.
Turley Writes:
Pressley’s view of evictions as an act of violence adds to this rising rhetoric at a time when more young people are embracing socialism.
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This is true. A large ratio of young people think capitalism has failed. The Great Recession is a good place to start in trying to figure out just ‘when’ this trend began.
But Republicans are determined NOT to learn from the past. The Trump administration has essentially gutted the Consumer Protection Agency which was created in response to dynamics that brought about the Great Recession.
Meanwhile Donald Trump has gone into the crypto currency business and wants to load the U.S. Treasurey with crypto holdings (like we really need a competitor to the dollar).
What’s more, an increasing number of analysts fear that private credit markets could trigger a financial panic. This sector has about $2 trillion on the books.
So if young people are losing faith in capitalism, an ‘anything goes’ business climate is certainly NOT the answer.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-treasury-meet-with-insurance-regulators-discuss-private-credit-markets-2026-04-01/
It’s not capitalism; it’s freedom and free enterprise, and it cannot possibly fail.
Freedom never fails.
Individuals give up and blame others.
When there’s blood in the street, you buy!
That is all.
She is the dumbest and most oblivious wok of all AND more deeply in love with herself than Trump will ever be.
A large number of young people believe a lot of BS, largely because they are inundated with BS from an early age by a system of mediocre people in education, media, and government. You think a large ratio of young people even understand capitalism, let alone any of the mythical alternatives – lolol, which are you one of the young dumb ones or the mediocre crab people?
If you can’t afford your rent, move, get a better/another job, get roommates, or whatever else you can do, but don’t come groveling like you are some resident of the moral highground deserving a nickel from anyone.
Much more likely a high ratio of young people are abject morons than understand economic systems. Go run along to whatever libtard social media you and the other addled dunning-kruger afflicteds infest.
And because a considerable number of these economically “abject moron” young people are products of the public schools, one must wonder if the public education system does so by design. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that students “graduate” from public schools unable to read or do math at grade level, or understand basic economics, is purposeful.
This is an interesting point. Superficially, public schools are completely worthless for the vast majority of the students – the smart ones and the dumb ones don’t need it, and the PS system fails the rest. However, there are a bunch of really smart successful people who are abject morons in certain aspects of their world – there are the armies of ‘educated’ white women who are simply useful idiots at the hands of (social) media manipulation. These people come from public and private schools. I don’t know your answer. I do know that putting money into a public school does not improve the outcomes of the students there – there is no evidence of this at all
Nothing new about this approach to “legal system” – nothing more than a dual state execution. Previously clearly illustrated by one SCOTUS opinion declaration of the power by a single judge to make, execute, and enforce law and power – unrestricted by legislation or executive branches. This is exemplified by the opinion of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – a horror in the face of Democracy.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/01/no-one-knows-what-will-happen-now-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-warns-against-unbridled-free-speech/
The dual state structure described in THIS article is clear development and support by “social” judges and legislators acting as law makers, law enforcers, and executors of the law. An intentional foster climate of fear and repression, where the legal system is manipulated to serve the progressive oligarch/autocratic regime’s goals. Intents are:
Suppression of Opposition: Political dissidents, races, and other randomly categorized and marginalized groups face severe persecution under the guise of legal authority.
Erosion of Civil Liberties: The elimination of many civil rights, allowing the regime to operate tyranny with impunity.
The term “dual state” refers to a system where the traditional legal order that coexists with arbitrary power exercised by the deep “minority” regime that dominates through legislative repression via “filibuster” by the minority with “state powers”. This framework allows maintenance of a facade of legality while implementing extrajudicial measures against perceived enemies, dissidents, or objectors of the tyrannical “deep” state.
Now Turley is conflating two different concepts: eviction and credit reporting. Pressley did not suggest that those who haven’t paid their rent should not be evicted. Quoting from above: “The HELP Act would prohibit the credit reporting of evictions and utility debt.” People could still be asked whether they have been evicted for failing to pay rent or have had utilities cut off for failing to pay their bills.
Credit reporting is one thing, evictions are another thing entirely. If Turley is worried about fairness and creditworthiness, then why doesn’t he write about Trump pardoning fraudsters? From factually.com:
“contemporary news analyses conclude that President Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of dozens of people convicted of fraud: a New York Times accounting says “more than 70” across both terms, while contemporaneous news audits of his second term counted roughly three dozen fraud-related clemencies in the first year and noted that a majority of a set of 88 individual pardons were for white‑collar offenses”.
White collar criminals deserve clemency, but poor folks who fall behind in their rent don’t deserve a break in MAGA world.
Many of those pardoned either were campaign contributors or relatives of campaign contributors. From “Wikipedia”:
“In his role as the 47th president of the United States (January 20, 2025 – present), Donald Trump granted executive clemency to more than 1,600 individuals as of July 23, 2025, all of whom were charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses.[1] This included a blanket pardon of some some 1,500 individuals associated with the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Many of Trump’s pardons have gone to people who committed fraud against the government or investors.[2] In many cases, Trump also removed the requirement that these individuals pay restitution and fines, costing their victims an estimated $1.3 billion.[3][4] At least three individuals who had been convicted in white-collar fraud cases and who were granted executive clemency also had their pending United States Securities and Exchange Commission civil enforcement actions dropped as a result.[5]”
Trump goes on the record claiming that blue states are defrauding the government and stops payments approved by Congress, but he pardons billionaires who were convicted of defrauding the government. To add insult to injury, Trump removed the requirement that the convicted fraudsters pay restitution to the taxpayers or to those whom they defrauded. But, Turley has nothing to say about this-instead choosing to criticize Pressley for suggesting that persons who get evicted not have their credit dinged and to get in some digs at Mamdami.
Well, I guess we can understand why Trump is sympathetic to fraudsters–after all, he was convicted of 34 felony counts. It’s a matter of perspective.
What a load of crap. Enemy of civilization. Pay your rent or get out. It would collapse the housing market and bankrupt anyone who rents a house.
What a load of crap. If you get convicted of fraud and are ordered to pay restitution— you don’t deserve clemency. Pay back the government and anyone you defrauded like the court ordered. And you deserve to have a criminal record that follows you for the rest of your life.
I worked my butt off to buy a home early in my life. As my family grew I was frugal doubling up on payments, driving old cars, eating baloney sandwiches for lunch. I did this for fifteen years and paid my house off, debt free. My family had expanded and my salary grew a little, we decided to buy a bigger home to raise our family. As the market had grown in our area, we rented our first home and put 20% down on a 30year fixed rate mortgage. With the rent coming in steadily we were good and had a 2 month leeway on that revenue stream before it got into our budget. We were lucky, most every tenant we had never defaulted on their rent. The point is, if you don’t pay your bills you affect others lives and can cause someone else the same financial misery you yourself are going through. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid, if you don’t get paid you don’t eat. Nobody owes you anything in this world except perhaps the opportunity to make yourself.
Freedom and Self-Reliance and Private Property.
Not “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Not public assistance, aka welfare, not affirmative action and not quotas.
Not communism.
There’s a difference between someone who falls behind in their rent and someone who deliberately defrauds the government and/or investors.
Since Trump started stinking up the White House, people are losing their jobs, they have an unexpected illness but no health insurance or maybe an accident and are out of work. They deserve a break. Fraudsters do not deserve clemency, much less relief from making restitution.
In MAGA world, it’s OK for Trump to pardon the wealthy who defrauded the government and investors (especially those who are campaign donors and their relatives) and to forgive the court order for restitution , but no sympathy for people who can’t pay their rent.
And you still don’t get it. Donate a few bucks to his treasure chest and get out of jail free, like dunter. What a dumb-dumb
Can we skip to the part where we start killing the commies? Having them pretend they have anything except avarice for people and a craving for totalitarianism is boring. Having them try to point at one crime to make their own seem uncriminal is laughable. Don’t you have a kkk rally to resist or a hospice to defraud?
Look, the pathetic are rapidly becoming even more irrelevent, and it’s cute that you want to burn the west off their backs, but seriously, GFY
to the Anonymous TDSer.. what does Presidential Pardons, a perk exercised by EVERY Modern President, have to do with the topic at hand, which focuses on a proposed new ‘affirmative action’ type practice of improving credit reports by misrepresentation? Do you want to talk about how Biden and the Biden Autopen used his Presidential Pardons as well…?
lol. The stupid white women who tell you what to think are laughing at you.. and so is everyone else. Clueless pawn
What do you expect from a bald headed negress and a purple haired crazy woman that wears curtains as clothes. DeLaurno was the same person that wanted to make growing a vegetable garden at your home illegal in her home state.
@Anonymous
I expect better than your prejudiced nonsense. You make no salient points and are not helping. You are precisely the type of voter that guarantees a straight Republican ticket can’t win (a coalition won in 2024, not ‘Republicans’). Really. Get over it and offer something better than personal grievance because we will not survive another round of the DNC.
“a coalition won in 2024, not ‘Republicans’”
Sorry, nope.
Republicans won. YOU can’t deal with that fact and so your TDS is apparent.
TDS causes you to ignore reality. Republicans won. Say it.
He enjoys his freedom of discrimination, which we all do every hour of every day—discriminate, comrade.
The slaves said all they wanted was their freedom.
Looks like they wanted a whole lot more—one thing after another, $26 trillion since the advent of the “civil rights” era—and some anti-American idiots (i.e., communists) decided to give it to them with other people’s taxpayer money.
James
Get over yourself moron.
Kook
She’s never cleaned a unit after an eviction…
Buried under 6 feet of earth, Laken Riley says, “Aren’t you sweet?”