My rent went up $800 in one year! And because it was a two year lease it was justified. After living in CA my whole life and renting for decades, I had to move as simply couldn’t afford it. Had I not had family to help me get out, I suppose I’d be homeless or have to squat. Every time I made more money, rent and cost of living took more. Never had a rich family member die and leave me money to buy a house. Housing shouldn’t be a money making scheme for those who already have money. I feel like it should be pretty simple to see it’s wrong.
People would say, “you just have to save up for it.” Save what?!
“Housing shouldn’t be a money making scheme for those who already have money.”
Found the communist! What even is life for if I can’t exploit literally everything around me to make even more money that I definitely don’t need because I already own a ton of shit!?
It’s what God™ intended! It’s literally in the Bible, Posteriorface 24:7 says “The Lord looked down on creation and spoke to man these words: Hey fuck-o, theres a plot of land left you didn’t buy or take from the natives. I’m sending your neighbors to stone you to death now. Get thy shit together, Dolla dolla bills y’all.”
It’s like no one reads the Bible anymore…
Rule of Acquisition #13: Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.
“save what?”
Thank you! The fact that I have my late grandfather’s estate to fall back on to be able to have my mother buy a house that I might be able to inherit is both incredibly lucky for me AND incredibly depressing.
Cheap houses make perfect AirBnB’s.
The article is about unpaid rent from the covid era. You can only make the landlords take on the debt for so long before larger financial repercussions occur. The right solution would have been for the state to take it on, but that would require
*gasp*socialismCommunities in California could also just let people build more housing, but God forbid the poors move into my neighborhood.
Directions unclear, kulaks liquidated
More than three-quarters of a million households in the state of California are behind on their rent, and now it appears that a tsunami of mass evictions is coming…
More than 768,000 households are behind on rent in the Golden State, with debts totaling more than $5 billion, putting approximately 721,000 children at risk of eviction, according to the National Equity Atlas—a collaborative data and analytics tool founded by Oakland-based Policy Link and the University of Southern California Equity Research Institute.
Residents in the City of Los Angeles are facing a deadline of Aug. 1 to repay all rental debt accrued between March 2020 and September 2021, with that from October 2021 to January 31, 2023, due by February 2024.
Guess those kids better get to work, i hear McDonald’s is hiring children again /s
Job creators!! The job reports show hiring is up, and so are the fries!
I don’t think you can call people renters if they haven’t been paying their rent since the start of the pandemic. At some point they’re just squatters.
~40 months without paying rent has to be baller though, i’d have enough for a down payment of a home no problem.
