Evictions skyrocket nationwide as housing costs rise
Evictions skyrocket nationwide as housing costs rise
Pandemic-era eviction postponements and federal assistance programs have expired, leaving renters vulnerable to the eviction filings that have dramatically increased nationwide. As wages can’t keep up with higher housing prices, landlords make the ultimate decision on whether to evict, oftentimes at...
I was going to just write that but apparently it's a stock meme on Google keyboard. Yeah we're fucked.
Average economy going up. Median economy going down. Inequality confirmed.
Our vultures are so fat, you wouldn't believe how full they are all the time...
Oh hey didn't this happen shortly before The Great Depression?
wasn't the thing that ended the great depression a world war? I find that even more concerning.
I'm no history buff but iirc wasn't FDR doing an absolute fuckton to help the people, too?
Still waiting for people to come together. For a few years now I've been getting responses such as, "I can't risk my job/home/food/pay/etc." Still wondering how much more it'll take. Cause all of that is being taken away in some form with inaction.
The average person desires peace. We will suffer immensely for even the promise of peace.
Thousands of years of warfare says otherwise. Humans love conflict and tribalism.
Im sick of eating cake, let their heads fucking roll.
Weird that the people fighting the war on poverty seem to be rooting for the underdog.
My BlueSky feed is increasingly filling up with "I am short $X for rent and if I don't make it I'll be evicted" panic-posts.
Not saying this is some kind of leading indicator for a bad economy, but we did just spend the last two years telling people rents can only go up while wages must remain static.
Don't worry, the rich pumped NVDA stock so you know where your stolen money went 😊
Just curious, can you raise the rent and evic if tenant don't agree to pay new price ?
Your rental contract states a certain amount.
So like $2000 a month for 12 months, which was what I paid on 2018.
My one shitty apartment complex absolutely said that if we don't file a renewal for $3000/month, we'll automatically be paying month to month at $4200/month.
Guess how investment companies empty out retirement communities so they can build condos in Florida.
Also, that's the basis for laws on rent control. Which in Florida, is more of a suggestion than a law.
It probably depends on your location.
Where I live, you can only (legally) increase rent by something like 4% per year. But if the price increase is within the legal limit, and the tenant doesn't want to (or can't) pay the new price, they either willingly move or are forcibly removed from the premises when they don't pay.
You can’t do it during the lease, but when the lease is up, sure. Unless there are regulations in place preventing how high they can hike the rate.
That's literally what they do. Every single landlord I've had has been the equivalent fusion of Mr. Krabs and Plankton.
A few apartments ago, the pipes sprung a leak and destroyed my living room wall. The landlord ignored it for two months. They would answer my phone and immediately hang up. I notified the city, who sent a health inspector that took one look at the black mold and said the LL had to fix it. They "complied" by slapping a new coat of paint on the wall. When I got my renewal later that year, they raised my rent from $1800 to almost $4000.
All while corporate profits are at all time highs. It's painting a clear picture, something either has to change, or something has to break.
What really hurt me to see (obviously it hurts the actual victims more) was how during Covid there was this what felt like once in a generation opportunity for progressive policies that were necessary during Covid such as rent eviction moratoriums, child support payments and stimulus checks to prove themselves to society and be embraced outside the context of Covid.
Then the rich violently slammed the door shut, and seeing the rent eviction moratorium be let to unceremoniously expire made my heart sink, it felt like the final nail in the coffin of the possibility of a brighter future because of how obviously wrong it was as a choice and how much the narrative of mainstream media was ready to move on as if we always had to move on, we always had to get back to this incredibly unsustainable grind that is quite visibly slowly (and not so slowly) destroying everyone around me including myself (which isn’t casual hyperbole, I say that very seriously).
The system cannot be fixed at this point I don’t think unless the people in power see agreeing to fixes in system (“concessions” from their standpoint) as the less scary alternative to other things. Otherwise Covid proved exhaustively that populist changes that improve everyone’s lives will be forced by any means necessary to be repealed by the ruling class.
