encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses.
Fuck you and your chronic health condition, grandma! Get out!
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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Tbf if grandma needs the EMS called frequently then she probably shouldn't still be living at home
What does 'frequently' mean here though? The article sure doesn't say. It sounds to me like 'frequently' is whatever the landlord decides. Which could mean 3 times in 2 years. After all, 3 visits from the police in 2 years would sure make the tenant seem sketchy without knowing the details.
What does 'frequently' mean here though?
Depends on the color of the tenant.
Maybe that should be her decision. If someone prefers to die at home alone, that's their choice.
If done correctly, with hospice, 100% agreed. If she's going to the hospital via ambulance every month that's over 100 thousand per year, easy. Could be closer to half a million, not to mention it takes EMS services away from other emergencies.
This is a dumb hypothetical
So your solution is to make her homeless for calling for medical services?! That's fucking brutal.
No, it's to get her into a residence with medically trained staff and supplies. That was quite a leap of logic you made
It'a not a leap of logic at all. In the U.S., assisted living facilities are extremely expensive and are out of the question for a huge portion of Americans. The few "affordable" urine-soaked care facilities in the U.S. are effectively torture camps for anyone who has not lost their mental faculties.
And that's all assuming assisted living is even needed for someone who had to call EMS more than usual that year. Any proposed solution that involves eviction is a patently horrific solution.
It's amazing to me that this would need to be explained. But, to be fair, if you are talking about this from the perspective of any country other than the U.S., then I could see your point in trying to get the person some elevated level of care. But still, eviction shouldn't be part of the solution.
It allows the city to suspend a landlord’s rental license if police answer four or more “nuisance” calls in a year. Before that, a landlord can be fined up to $500. This is in the city from this article, but across the us apparently there are lots of different limits and definitions of nuisance. In general I don't want landlords making health and financial decisions for the elderly.
this article describes the law more completely.
the city gave landlords weekly reports over five years revealing personal medical information of renters who received multiple emergency calls to their homes.
In at least 780 cases, the city also shared details about mental health crises and even how people had tried to kill themselves,
And this isn't a HIPPA violation how?
Cops/EMS/the city/your neighbor aren’t bound by HIPPA in the slightest. They can talk to the HOA or landlord with impunity, and it’s absolutely fucked.
EMS is abso-fucking-lutely covered by hipaa. Source: volly ems for the better part of a decade.
Learned something new today— thanks for the correction!