Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago
“Since pre-pandemic, the income needed to afford rent has increased by 31.5%,” Zillow’s chief economist, Skylar Olsen, wrote yesterday.
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We need Rent Control at a federal level.
No what we need is more housing. It's a supply issue. We're short something like 2 million homes. The problem isn't that we need to the government to come in and control the prices, we need the government to come in and make it so people can't block higher density residential zones.
Heaven forbid we build Chinese style apartment buildings, though
Bro its bad enough they got these shitty wood "luxury" apartment buildings that have like half inch thick walls, no one wants that shit on a massive scale. I'm all for more housing but fuck shared living spaces.
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Do you know how many homes sit empty? There's a lot.
Current estimate is at 1.2 metric fucktons of empty houses.