Imagine a world of moonbattery so extreme that the tyrannical eviction moratorium is extended forever, abolishing basic property rights, forcing landlords to house freeloaders at their own expense indefinitely until they are bankrupted. New York State may soon be such a world:

An Airbnb user who never intends to leave. Tenants not paying enough rent to keep up buildings. A roommate temporarily renting a room who later decides not to move out.

Under the Legislature’s misleadingly named “Good Cause Eviction” bill, these occupants can all remain in their apartments forever and the property owner has virtually no recourse.

Orwell would love the name of the bill. It actually means “No Eviction Ever.”

While the cost of housing skyrockets, the bill would place strict limits on both evictions and rent increases, guaranteeing a severe housing shortage and putting a virtual halt to maintenance of rental properties.

The bill broadly defines nearly anyone who pays another person to occupy real estate in New York as a “tenant” and expressly prevents landlords from removing them except in the narrowest circumstances.

Want a tenant out so that you can renovate the property, sell it, or use it yourself? Too bad. In New York, it wouldn’t be your property. It would be in effect your tenant’s property, the government having confiscated it and handed it over. Even eviction for nonpayment of rent would be exceedingly difficult.

“No Eviction Ever” outrageously protects tenants who illegally rent their apartments as short-term guests through services like Airbnb. The bill would only let landlords evict such tenants if property owners can convince local governments to issue “vacate orders.” Yet most municipalities, including New York City, don’t typically issue such orders. Instead, they fine landlords when tenants break laws pertaining to short-term rentals.

This would be a double whammy for New York landlords: a tenant who can’t be removed, coupled with government fines for not removing that same tenant.

The law isn’t meant to be reasonable. It is meant to hurt landlords, who are the bad guys according to Marxist ideology, and to pander to the parasites who comprise the Democrat base.

After every landlord has been deliberately driven out of the state, Big Government will step in to provide housing. On the plus side, you won’t have to pay rent; everyone one else will pay it for you. The downside is that you will have to live in a housing project administrated by Marxist bureaucrats, with rats running wild and holes in the walls.

On a tip from Wiggins.