Hard to imagine legislation coming out that would harm these folks, especially since these are the very folks with (thanks in part to me and my ilk :P ) lots of money to donate to political campaigns.

Like someone said, if you want to give $800 a month to charity, go ahead and do it....but maybe donate to Wounded Warriors or something else deserving.....

It's somewhat related to covid in that she writes grants for a living, and the economic insecurity of covid has made people more reluctant to donate to charities i guess.

My initial though is....dumpster everything but jewelry as I don't want to deal with the time it take to sort things.Can you donate it and get a huge write off from good will?

I haven't found much of value after a move out or an eviction (well, my son and I once found a packet of what we assumed were drugs and I suppose the tenant would have found that of value but we presented the stuff to our local police instead) but I am a big one on recycling intact furniture to our local Habitat and Catholic Social Services organizations to avoid good stuff ending up in the landfill and donating canned goods to our local soup kitchen. 

DavidAS one of the founding members of Aheroshome.org  which was the BP charity at BPcon 21 I personally want to thank all that participated and donated..

We either donate (to cleaner) or compost whatever is suitable. 

And just to get it off the table, if I'm in charge of this event there would be a cost for tickets but all proceeds would be donated to charity....

Habitat for humanity houses are built with volunteer labor and donated materials.

One tenant and his cousin left pretty much all their stuff (an amazing amount) and the other tenant got most of her stuff out but left the big screen and lots of shoes (I'll donate the shoes to a thrift store).