Elected officials should honor the wishes of tenants who vote for them, right? Not necessarily. In upstate New York, the newly Democratic-controlled City Council just announced it will implement good cause eviction. “Clearly, this is something that the voters wanted,” Council President Sue Steele told the Times Union. “They made it very clear in the outcome of the last election.” One thing I’ve learned from years of covering politics is that no one knows exactly why people vote the way they do. The reasons vary tremendously from one voter to the next. Rarely do they come down to one issue […]

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