Last Tuesday I presented to the Ohio Realtors’ Legislative Conference in Columbus, Ohio. I learned a lot about Ohio including that they still have Republicans there. The state truly is a crossroads, with big cities that lean more Democratic and lots of rural areas that lean Republican. But Democrats in Ohio are often of the hardhat variety, pro-union and strongly in favor of government intervention in the market to favor workers. But the legislature is dominated by Republicans, a features, some say, of a districting process that has preserved rural Ohio’s control over state government. And Ohio elects Republican governors. So Ohio seems to be a great place to test messages on eviction, and push back on the efforts of socialists and anti-rental property crowd to impose unhelpful regulation on tenant-property owner relationships. Here’s the PowerPoint I presented on Tuesday. I am hoping we can support the real estate community to show that there is no eviction crisis in Ohio or anywhere else. The real issue is lack of supply.