Millions can no longer afford their rent

But on the bright side. umm. Ecomomny

I really don’t know what the corpo end goal is, like what everyone homeless, and them owning a bunch of empty, condemned buildings? This whole thing is nightmarish. I always hear talk about increasing low income housing but never any talk of middle income. I make a decent wage but could never afford anything without roommates and even that is a stretch. Wheeeeeeeee.

A different story but Detroit had an issue with housing and laws that prevented certain people from buying homes, getting mortgages, applying for well paying jobs all while getting abused and sometimes killed by the police. Some of those people revolted, not all, not even a significant number. They burned down everything, including the homes they could not buy and it brought down a city.

I could absolutely see this happening again because of abnormal rents. These landlords are going to upset enough people to the point when the group with no hope for their future just starts burning it all down. Why should they care about society when society doesn't care about them? Fire is so easy to start, and as Detroit found out, so hard to stop.

So like, when is it socially acceptable to grab the proverbial pitchforks?

I don't really understand what the end goal here is. They've got to realize that at some point people are going to just take what they need right? Are they hoping that's far enough away that it won't be their problem anymore? Or do rich people schools not teach what happens when workers are backed into too deep of a corner?

How often do Americans pay rent? When they say rent was $750 do they mean weekly or fortnightly?

convert office buildings into apartments. it’s a start.

I'm a landlord, have been for over a decade. I keep my rent as low as possible and during peak covid gave my tenants many months free, etc. I barely make a profit on the place, just enough to convert expenses mostly and some to buffer for the future.

Everyone around my property is raising rent like crazy. I'm almost half the market rental rate right now, and my tenants are (obviously) hesitant to leave because it's cost them at least twice as much to move anywhere else.

Point being, shit is crazy right now, even for those of us trying to do the right thing. I don't know wtf is going to happen next, but this isn't sustainable.

Let’s start hunting landlords, and when they’re gone we move on to the CEOs

There needs to be a massive protest, by staying in where you live. To have shelter and four walls, should be and is a humanitarian right. We've gone throughout all of history starting with having no walls but caves, then to having huts, then to having pantheons, to finally having modern day walls and to having everything sustaining us within those walls.

And the only people that charged us, were when we visited Inns and Hotels, sometimes other people when we holed up in a room by their option. Not a lot of these greedy landlords existed then, but here they are now, upholding and upsetting the very things we've struggled to achieve.

Yet we're going to allow that?

It's fine, the billionaires can still have several homes, and a custom yacht. That's all that matters right?

MyNorthwest is a rightwing rag that should be ignored.

If real millionaires cannot afford rent, it's because they are wasting their money elsewhere. That, or their rents are actually in super high luxury buildings and they just need to go somewhere reasonable.