This is exactly why rent should be based on a percentage of income. Period.

It should be illegal for corporations to buy single family homes.

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I was comfortable in my finances 5, 10 years ago. I'm scared shirtless that I won't be able to heat my house this winter! I'm really blessed that I own it.

Very, very true.

Yes 😢😢😢

I know people (esp those with kids) who work full time and are trapped in bad relationships or with abusive family they can't leave because they can't afford to rent even a one-bedroom apartment on their own right now.

And no, not everyone can pack up and leave to go live in a cheap small town in the middle of nowhere, esp if it means leaving their decent job (which are also starting to get scarce).

...And those jobs will keep getting more and more scarce as AI eats the job market.

That's intentional. That's part of the Christian Nationalist/Heritage Foundation plan to make marriage great again. Make marriage a trap that's nearly impossible to escape, demonize single mothers, and give favoritism to married couples.

Sadly true.

Homelessness is now illegal

But HEDGE FUNDS… Well….

and when elected leaders like Mamdani propose to do something about it most elected Dems back pedal way from him -- time for a new party.

The old guard hates him. But to me, his ideas are fantastic! We need more like him, running for the Senate.

Booming economy has seen double digit increases in bankruptcies. Credit card defaults 15 year Hi. Defaults on car payments R @ 30 year Hi.

The bottom is coming soon.

It’s definitely going to get worse before it gets better.

I certainly can't. Thankfully I'm lucky enough for my parents to own their home and me and my husband and child are living w them at the moment...

As more cities decide it’s illegal to be homeless. Heartbreaking to live in this dystopian nightmare.

Well, we keep electing people to office who don’t care anything about that. So, of course it’s going to continue to get worse! We United States citizens have to learn sh*t the hard way.

These poor folks. Nowhere to live, and can't live on the street (sweeps). It might as well be illegal to exist.

Went to the Dollar Tree today! Nothing is One Dollar anymore! Prices on Plastic goods--due to Dump's Sick Ass TARIFFS -- Call them what they are --TAXES -- have increased to $1.50 per item!... Not blaming Dollar Tree -- Blaming Thug Dump!... NOW, we are feeling what the Dick-tator has planned 4 us!

We own several rental properties. We haven't raised rent in three years for most of our tenants. Some long term tenants have asked us to complete benefit forms for public assistance. Doesn't make sense to us to raise rent when people who used to be able to afford rent now need assistance.

My friend had a landlord she rented from forever.He owned a lot of properties in coastal SoCal. He was a genuinely sweet man. He always said his philosophy was to keep rent reasonable and he didn't raise it cuz it meant tenants weren't always moving in and out--folks raised families & became family.

Exactly. We want good people as tenants. We have had horrible people who destroyed our properties, but most are decent hard working people.

When today’s young people have nothing to work towards there will be a reckoning! No future for them!

Honestly anyone who reads Project 2025 and doesn’t take it seriously is foolish.

Anyone who heard Trumps rally speeches and didn’t take him seriously is beyond foolish!

I was terrified then & was told I was hysterical.

In the 2016 election I told people don’t vote for Trump because of the exact reasons how he is a racist white supremest! People just don’t get it! In 2024 I again said to people don’t vote for Trump because if he gets in he will make all our lives a hell on earth!

You were 100% right both times! 💙

Sadly people don’t listen 😪

It's amazing.

They really don’t listen. You would be amazed how many people have no idea how bad things are.

Most. And sadly, they voted for her.

This👆!!!!

No one can, and they just keep building new homes. There has to be 9 months of inventory just sitting there. Housing is about to pop, but not in a good way at all.

And now, if you find yourself homeless, you could be detained and held in some hell hole tent camp for no reason. 😳

Don't worry they will be put to work in factories and on the farms along with all the other enslaved immigrants and undesirables. I fucking hate this timeline

I fucking hate the regime that caused it. All because people wouldn't vote for a smiling laughing brown lady.

The gulag.

Then, get penalized and looked down on for being unhoused!

That is the plan

Another cruel way to create an us vs. them, the haves and the have nots. Social hiarchy. A f**king way for some folks to feel superior.

I hope all the commentors will talk to their neighbors, family and friends before the next election (mid terms) and work to get out the vote for any and all Dems. They may not be perfect, but they aren't Nazis.

Not just the cost of rent or food, for many it’s the mortgage, property taxes & then there’s the utility bills like electricity for heating, air gas & oil.

… oops forgot car, home and healthcare insurances.

Home insurance is making me thinner. I don’t recommend this diet.

Can’t be homeless either. The only socialized housing republicans support are jails & prisons and they plan to build a lot of them.

And they wonder why the American electorate is angry. What is scarier, being homeless, unable to afford health care and food, or voting for a Democratic Socialist candidate?

Look at Australia. Median house prices here just crossed $905,000. And availability is so bad you can easily end up homeless looking for rentals regardless of your income. Do not become like us.

I worry less about the price of housing and more about the pay we receive and the cost of healthcare. Companies pay as little as possible, strip away benefits and keep the money at the top. Many Americans are paying $1000+ a month for health insurance with a huge deductible.

We have apt buildings that are 20-plus years old. 5 years ago, rent was $450.00 then my rent went to $700.00. I had no choice, I had to leave. The rent there now is $1100.00. That was my apt complex. Oh, and they started charging $25.00 for water (not metered).

It's crazy; it's national. Hoping to leave NYC but finding no value in renting or buying anywhere along East Coast. Houses that sold for 90k pre-pandemic are going for $300k w no improvements. Same w rentals. Any young person who stays in US is crazy. Get out while young, esp if you want a family.

Corporate Merikkka firing in all cylinders

The American dream is dead

#blackstone

I’m one of them. (I live with family.)

47 intends to make homelessness illegal

Generational living is going to sweep through this country. It's the only viable solution for a lot of people. Can't afford that 4 bedroom house? Pack grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, your spouse, and your 3 kids in there and hey, you can afford to eat. Murica

Let’s let private equity investor-backed entities buy all the starter homes in our state! What a way to get long-term residuals from our sharecroppers I mean community! And, when those poor sods need services, let’s lobby the pols we bought and paid for to get lower Corporate taxes. Brilliant!

Can't be helped. Billionaires need bigger yachts and another private jet. Sad. #sarcasm

They're building communities of rental homes near me. Rents starting in the 2k's. No equity, just paying over 2k. America's priorities are wrong. No investment in kids, education, mental health, Healthcare, or infrastructure. Only thing we invest in are stadiums, sports teams, and guns.

Stop corporations from buying single family homes. Every home should be “owner occupied”. Exception—Private investment should be limited to one family owning four homes as rentals, for investment purposes.

And not one solution from the GOP. Just taxes on us and tax breaks for the wealthiest. And people who said they voted for lower prices, how's that working out?

Republican "solutions" aren't intended to solve problems. Their goal is to sabotage conversations, sow disinformation and keep the water muddy as they steal.

And how very sad is that. We can not move forward with that policy.

The Republican stated goal is to move back, but the magical era they are dragging us back to never existed which is why they can't decide which year America was "great" in.

As a kid, we had free garbage service, mail twice a day, and interstates being built.

Pretty sure they're not bringing those things back.

They are clearly articulating to the media that the goal now is to depopulate the country. They are dropping the population by 3/4's. From 356 million to under 100 million on a 2 to 3 year timeline. Or put another way... This is the start of the biggest genocide in history. Act accordingly.

This is the best explanation for the chaos being spewed I've read so far.

Get Vulture capital out of the single family or rental housing business, and see what happens to prices. Corporations and hedge funds are becoming the landlord class. Force the rich to divest their property holdings. They've been allowed to "invest" to the tune of pricing out the public.

I am one of those people

We moved to Mexico the last time the US lost its collective mind. We couldn’t afford to move back even if we wanted to (which we don’t). Yes, I know I am privileged to be able to leave, but my kids are still there and struggling. It’s fucking scary.

I can’t afford to move anywhere else because my mortgage is so low, lower than both my adult children’s apartments 🤷🏻‍♀️they probably won’t be able to buy anything for themselves until they inherit my house because real estate is crazy everywhere 😠😡

The media wants people to think the #NYCshooting was about football. They are trying to prevent another rally of public support for killing evil billionaires like what happened with #Luigi One of the victims was a #Blackstone executive who was responsible for the housing affordability crisis.

Thank a Trump voter or someone who sat on their hands in 2024! Since we haven’t gotten our opposition together for 2026, folks better get used to it.

But imagine how affordable homes will become in Missouri once Trump allows luxury homes to be built in Yellowstone and other national parks.

For fun, I checked Zillow listings in Boston that are within my price range of ~$450K. There were 8 listings. All 8 of them were parking spaces. Welp.

The idea of saving up $10k - $25k in cash just for the down payment on an older "starter home" that will need at least that much again in repairs feels impossible. Speaking as a blue collar worker in an "affordable" red state

#Blackstone #Blackrock

Depending on where you are, that's been true for at least 25 years...

I make significantly more than minimum wage and my one bedroom basic apartment is 50% of my income. I’m lucky that I have no other debt.

The older generation who voted Trump thinks that the next generation should not live comfortably like they did. I vote for the next generation not my generation

Allegedly, there is a change in the law regarding American pensions due to hit pensioners from 2032 onwards - it's in the "big beautiful bill" & retirees are not going to like it. "They" won't be living as comfortably as they have done before.

They want to kill SS and Medicare

& pensions

It's the fecking "private equity" cannibals. They should be banned from owning housing and healthcare (and vet care!)

Those rotten fucks ruined so many things. I’ve actually done private catering jobs in the past for people that own private equity firms and they were the worst fucking people I’ve ever worked for.

Rich entitlement babies who think they have the right to grab everything.

nor the property taxes alone

The housing market is slowing down. I noticed many more "for sale" signs in our subdivision. Houses are vacant for months. There are more "for lease" signs as the houses are snatched up by companies instead of people.

Most rents around here are higher than average mortgage payments in the same area. We have lost so much housing to corporate buyers and they just sit empty or are seasonal air bnbs that spend half the year empty

Young adults paying over a thousand a month to rent an apartment. Insane! Most of them have student loans as well!

America most definitely is not the place to live anymore. They're kicking out the middle class.

Mamdani’s “socialism” = capitalism, actually. People making decisions in their best interests.

It’s awful. I remember when families did the multi-generational living thing, some may have to do that again.

My Millennial & GenZer will most likely never amass any wealth in their lifetime. Neither will be able to own a home unless we die and they inherit our home.

Jess, please don't let the media bury this one. The NFL isn't on the 33rd floor. Ope.

Many r living at home with their parents; some r doubling up on buying a home where two families share the home n the mortgage. The only people in the USA who can achieve the “American dream” r rich citizens, Congress, or the President’s Cabinet n his admin. And they just outlawed homelessness.

People need to address ZONING LOCALLY by going to city/county meetings and speaking up. Tiny homes, RVs, cabins, accessory dwellings are often NOT allowed to be added on private family land.

My daughter wrote her thesis on this phenomenon. It’s contagious among cities and towns. Zoning an private equity are squeezing people.

You should post her thesis.

Thx for the info. Didn’t know that.

You're welcome. We found out the hard way.

We need to make it easier to build more housing.

I don't want the situation to get more difficult in the future.

We’re gonna have so many more houseless families!😡

This is soo bad for the economy.

I remember U. of Missouri joining the SEC and thinking it was an odd fit with schools from the Deep South. Welp, nowadays, looks like a perfect fit.

The Republicans control all facets of the government There is not a single Executive Order, Memo, Bill or even a suggestion from any one of them that qualifies as 'working for the people'. NOTHING

This has been going on for well over a decade. Like a LOT of others, I am down to living in my vehicle. Started 4 years ago. I can't even afford a campground.

We can barely afford food.

Oh! One can if they don’t have a car payment, car insurance, life or cancer policy, health insurance or dental care, children or pets and heating and air. It’s a snap!!🫰🏻

How else can you distract the masses so you can get away with crimes against the people your suppose to be serving,,,especially pedophiles,,release the epstein files and client list pedophile shitler.

Good thing we didn’t elect Harris. Can’t have the government helping people afford housing.

Our city has some law t&at restricts companies from taking over neighborhoods. It sets the minimum of 80% homeownership in neighborhoods as primary resident

and king orange the turd just declared homelessness illegal

They want indentured workers in corp owned housing so they can link housing and healthcare to low paying jobs that they can never afford to leave. It’s modern day slavery

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Like the Miners.

The new company towns.

Another level of ignorance on display by the stable genius. I could only get halfway through it. Dumbfounded!

Forget housing. I can't even afford a hamburger anymore.

So, so true. It's extremely hard for people who have to struggle to make ends meet. With the present administration, it's going to get worse.

All part of the plan. Make housing unaffordable, then make it illegal to be unhoused (just signed an executive order doing that), and build tons of labor camps for the new criminals. It's evil, and we have to stop it.

This is a genocide, with slavery for the masses as an interim phase. They are openly stating that the target population is under 100 million. That means 3 out of every 4 people are targeted for elimination. It's WAY past time to start reacting to this.

Coinciding with such a high % of homes and housing being in the hands of private investors and private equity firms.

One more way the rich get richer.

And people are wondering why the birth rate has bottomed out…

Not to mention the very real risk of a horrible death if you need an intervention because of, or even during, pregnancy.

Please, mention!! This is absolutely another important factor!

Nobody in their right mind wants to birth a baby into a genocide.

Can’t even afford basic food. Where’s the 99 cent bread????

How many legislators are also landlords? A recent study in Canada found that 40% of federal representatives are also landlords. This might influence representatives approach to creation of affordable housing.

This should have been and should be the seminal issue of the last and next election.

VP Harris was talking about building housing and purchase incentives/credits and yet still 1/3 of the people apparently weren’t interested and voted not to have that and another 1/3 couldn’t be bothered so I don’t know why people think this issue will matter at all. USians are stupid AF.

History proves over & over Repubs don't care abt ppl!They don't pass bills to help,or pass any education bills.They prefer ppl be dumb & poor so they can control us.Think Russia & North Korea! Our entire livelihood is being destroyed w high costs & workers who help everything run put in jails!

That's a plan. Round up the homeless, put them in a labor camp and replace the migrants that were deported. Pretty straight forward to me.

Saw an eviction last week. Their belongings were placed on the sidewalk. People came and pilfered through it, taking things. I can’t get over the image of poverty from all angles.

Housing is being bought up by corporations which then rent at exorbitant prices. Should be illegal

TWump is working hard to fix it, at his new golf course in Scotland.

This crisis isn’t just bad luck or “supply and demand.” It’s engineered. Ultra-rich individuals and private equity firms scoop up housing not because they need places to live, but because our tax code rewards them for it. Our tax code literally pays the wealthy to hoard housing. Tax the rich.

I think you have to go back to 2008, at least. So much supply got bought up by faceless investors that the market dynamics changed. Houses get sold when the profit target is reached, instead of when the homeowner is ready to move out. It gums up the works.

But that’s the problem. For many wealthy individuals there is no profit target. It’s about transferring those assets into their Estates so that the next generation can inherit those assets tax-free! It is a multi-generational tax scam to keep and build wealth at the very top.

My area has an abundance of homes that are purchased, then just sit vacant for years as prices skyrocket.

Where is it? I want to squat. Lol it's what they deserve

Not beef.

And soon all homeless will be in work camps , so they won’t need to worry about housing !! It’s like the war on drugs !! You can see it coming, but can’t stop it !! The homeless will be the new immigrants in this war against the oligarchy !!!

I'm 44 years old & we- meaning my husband, daughter & I, had to move in with my mother. Our best, probably only, option to live "on our own" will be building an ADU. Tariffs are going to price us out of that now too

And it’s only going to get worse. 1 bedroom in the South End neighborhood of Boston is now $3300/month. $2200 in the suburbs surrounding the city.

Rent is around $2000 in my little town. The biggest employer is the hospital. The factories are non-union, and don't pay shit. The job I retired from is union. Last I heard there was a waiting list of 400 people trying to hire in. It only employs 400 people. You have to "know" someone to get in.

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& sadly, it is going to become much harder....

Yeah, that's why the press & NY cops & mayor are hiding that it was the CEO of Blackstone who was murdered. You know that corporation that's buying up all the single family homes. They're trying to avoid that Luigi celebration effect. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6SuTuvy/

This is the first that I heard about that!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6SHYSnK/

Razors 🪒 at Costco are now 30 buck and same was 26 bucks six months ago! Trumpenomics suck

Welcome to predatory capitalism.

Perfectly apt phrase. Might need to start using this.

Tariffs should help. #sarcasm

Yep, tarrifs help kill people, which seems to be the bigger goal.

You can get a mortgage right now at around 7%. When my wife and I built our first house, a two room log cabin over a basement, mortgage rates were over 10% and credit cards were at 18-21%. The trouble is a $100K house in 1985 would cost $500K today. 7% on $100K vs 12% on $500K $12K interest vs $35K

And tRump is moving to lock up the homeless.

Yes my rent raise came yesterday and 8% raised as of Sept

Corporate takeover of the residential housing market. Reasonably priced starter homes that need a little love are rare. Bought and renovated by companies and flippers and the price jacked. The average home buyer can't compete with aggressive commercial interests.

I am starting to wonder what is coming Hank.. On my street here in Ga that has affordable homes the 5 rental properties that have been full for years are now all vacant- and several on one street over.. Maybe a crash coming when they can’t get those renters to pay their mortgages like 2010?🤔

It depends on if the houses are corporate owned. If they keep houses empty it creates a shortage that drives up prices so the rest of their properties make more. They paid cash for the houses so there’s no mortgage to cover. In this way they keep the housing bubble highly inflated.

They didn’t pay cash for them… and the one I know did can’t rent his because he neglected it badly for the 15 years that he did rent it to a good family & it will cost him a fortune to fix the roof that partially caved in before he could rent or sell…🤷‍♀️ They love the income but not the expenses..🤷‍♀️

Are they all in bad shape like that? Ask the city to condemn them. They can take control of the property and clean it up then sell it to hopefully cover the cost.

No and now thanks to those corporate owners we now have a code enforcement agency that makes them accountable since not all neighborhoods have HOA’s . He plans to fix it but my guess is he is trying to do so cheap and the contractors aren’t in any rush to get it done for him…🤣🤣

He keeps the yard mowed and looking decent since he knows aI have zero hesitation on filing a code violation if they don’t…it is my home value they are messing with- and back in 2010 before we got code enforcement they were the worst at abandoning homes

They may not have a mortgage to cover but they are still paying property taxes and insurance on them .. And in this neighborhood that is more than my original mortgage was…🤷‍♀️

Nope this is all due to no demand.. they can’t rent them… know the difference since aI lived through the 2010 crash…🤷‍♀️ There are builders though that are building townhouse rental communities to rent instead of boy that are definitely trying to drive those prices up with the rents they are charging

Hopefully those investors will sell to families who want to own again and bring the neighborhood back ..

I think a crash is coming. Prices are unsustainable if the economy falters like in 2008.

My children will never amass any wealth, even though they make a reasonable amount of money. Sadly, they will never be able to own a home.

The American Dream is dead...for now. Pay is too low. Prices too high. The former middle class is being hollowed out. This is by design. A middle class becomes politically active. Billionaires cannot survive this challenge. Not too late to change this.

I agree and our current fool for a President will ensure that with his ridiculous policies…🤷‍♀️

'Developers' purge the neighborhoods with affordable housing and then build back much more expensive units. Consumers have no choice but to pay the higher prices or go without. Our idiot conservatives 🇨🇦 sold 800,000 affordable units and lots to private developers. For Canada, that's huge..

US Private equity firms owned an estimated 239,018 rental single-family homes across the country as of June 2022. This accounted for about two-thirds of the rental homes owned by institutional investors and approximately 1.6% of all rental homes nationwide.

Agree.. And here in the US they aren’t just buying residential properties but in almost every industry.. Buying hospitals, nursing homes, mobile parks etc - all to hit them and make more profit for themselves while decreasing the level of service to all..

I live in what I would call a "starter home" neighborhood. Ten years ago my house and my neighbors houses were around 140K. Now, these same crappy houses are selling for 350k. It makes no sense.

My house was worth $200000 10 years ago. Now it's worth $400, with no updates. It's a nice house, but seriously?!? Flips are being sold for $200000! And resold for $400!

There are million dollar houses where I live in Southern California, which are now $3 million. They're in a nice area, but still. The quality of life here has decreased due to so many people moving here & the rent prices driving up. I had to get a job as a house sitter. Thankfully I'm booked n busy.

And middle class, 1960s tract homes that 15 years ago were 550K are now at 2M. Absolutely stupid. I was looking at home prices around the *actual* holler in eastern KY where my dad was born, and the low end was 300K and the upper topped a million. Insane.

I was lucky enough to buy in the crash of 2008. our country is fucked up if people have to wait for the economy and housing market to crash to afford a home

YUP! And Trump Maga 2025 project WILL create MILLIONS more homeless! WE THE PEOPLE HAVE TO STOP THE TRUMP REGIME! PERIOD!

and thanks to the corrupt Supreme court being homeless is now a crime. America is just a joke and a distopian hell hole!

It's out of control.

True story! And if we don’t get legislation that prevents private equity firms & hedge funds from buying up entry level homes, most Americans won’t ever be able to afford home ownership. They can’t compete with folks who pay cash, make cosmetic fixes, then rent them out at unaffordable prices.

Nope they can’t. I had to choose between losing our home and feeding my kids this week. Also, I can’t afford to register my kids for school or even get them school supplies or any new clothes. The school is asking for $300 for 2 kids. Groceries are a luxury. I am scared

Do you have a town trustee? Ours is awesome! Or try talking to the school?

I will probably have to talk to the school. I’m just not good at that part. I hate not being able to take care of my kids. It’s no one else’s responsibility but mine and I am failing. It’s hard to handle

That’s terrible. 😞. Try a go fund me??

Thank you for your empathy

I am very not good at asking for help

I feel you. I’m not either.

It's not even easy to pay rent

This is deliberate. Billionaires would like the U.S. to be a slave state. There is a reason Trump wants to make homelessness a crime while also rolling back all programs that benefit the 99%. The more homeless, the more people they can put in slave prisons forced to work for nothing.

They already accomplished the first phase of this by creating privatized prisons where they make more $ the more people that are locked up. They are doing all of this intentionally because anyone who is not rich is not worthy of freedom or a life.

Don't forget that slaves SALES are lucrative. Especially when you are selling sex slaves. Even more so if those are child sex slaves. Very much $$$

I'm in a lithc yet my rent has gone up 21 percent since January 3, 2022.

It's fine they will put us all in jail, then we can all pick blue berries together

For many, it’s the extra fees that really hurt. 1st & last month’s rent (held without interest for the life of the lease), deposits for 3 or 4 utilities, HOA or facilities fees, mandatory insurance, & property taxes. All those raise the real cost of a $1,200 apt to $2,375 in Dallas.

And Trump wants to imprison the homeless.

Believe it or not he is jealous of them. Jealous of EVERYONE.

Why?

Why? Because he is a psycho! Anyone or anything that gets attention, positive or negative, needs to be dismissed. He is a malignant narcissist. It will never make “sense”.

I've known about him in the eighties. He's always been scum he still wants daddy's approval and mummy's love, and he won't ever get either of them.

I saw him for the 1st time on Oprah, around 1989. And I thought to myself, who IS this ass??

He was visiting Mother Russia in the 70s

It's a sad reality. The market is out of control.

Always profits for the few, a big shaft for we the people. Used to be they used wars for profits for the few, now we have ICE and for profit privatized concentration camps.

Food, housing, energy. All getting out of reach to more and more. We'd do well to focus on real solutions to these issues.

It’s truly insane. And they wonder why our kids are not starting families. America now only works if you have inherited wealth.

I couldn't afford to buy any of the homes I previously owned.

Yet Republicans in Congress refuse to consider raising the minimum wage.

Well yes, of course. They don't believe in Min wages. They want slavery. They are doing everything possible to bring slavery back.

We've been increasing the homeless population by double digits every year for several years now.

Ironically when my Dad moved down there in 1988 it was very reasonable. I don’t know what the heck happened.

Greed.

I bought a very small 2-bedroom house in 2016. My mortgage payment (15-year mortgage) is $500 per month. I likely wouldn’t be able to afford this same house if I were to buy it today. And rent for a two-bedroom apartment in this area is now around $1200 to $1500 per month. 😐 The system is broken.

Truth

Delinquency in auto. payments has reached a record high. The rise in delinquencies is increasing the pace of repossessions. People cannot afford to even live in their cars.

I’ve found I can absolutely afford my mortgage, provided I stop eating all together 😊🌈🏡

Many people are getting roommates. It can be a good alternative as long as they’re vetted properly. It’s better than losing your home. Usually an old mortgage is less than the rent on a new 1 bedroom apartment!

I’m starting to think that’s the point: make them homeless, make them poor, make them disappear.

Make them disappear into the fields to pick food.

And the stupeministration is pushing to outlaw homelessness.

Exactly

Time to self deport or go work for ce!

And the ghouls predatory ghouls are out there preying on the elderly trying to buy their houses for pennies. My senior citizen neighbor who sometimes is hard up for money gets offers she shows me all the time and I have to tell her its a scam. I worry so much for her.

In my area they match elderly people with College students looking for rooms. Some people even share meals splitting cost of food & sharing preparation. It’s a very practical solution. The only downside is it’s usually temporary.

Two top priorities that the Americans have is a living wage and Medicare for all! Let’s fight for them!

Now you're going to see Congress & Senate get behind the bill for 'affordable housing.' Be careful. The "developers" of homes and communities have been lobbying all state officials to remove local zoning laws, allow lawsuits for denied projects, and literally say who inspects. Substandard work.

Harris -construction of 3 million new housing units, both for rent & sale, over the next 4 years. Tax incentives to build more homes & down payment assistance for 1st-time buyers. DonOld called a vote for him to own the libs. Now, magas can't afford to own the libs. They have to rent the libs.

And homelessness is now illegal and punishable by... imprisonment... slavery too maybe?

The coming storm...

1789 France is probably just around the corner in Murica. The French government is still afraid of its people for good reason. 💖

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgtn... This

Not just that: we're talking about run-down apartments for rent – if at all available in rural areas – and long neglected "charming fixer-upper" homes "with potential" for sale. At astonishing prices also here in the poorest county of Iowa.

$200000 for a flip in indiana, and it's a rural area.

Bargain! 😣

Wesley LePatner, chief executive of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, was among the four victims of a gunman who opened fire on Monday in a Park Avenue office tower. ALSO: "Institutional investors may control 40% of U.S. single-family rental homes by 2030" www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/h...

I rented my apt 3 yrs ago. I’m now paying 3,000 more a year than when I signed my first lease. It’s absolute insanity. They are draining people dry.

So let’s make it illegal to be houseless or have mental illness 😡. Those vacant field labor jobs aren’t gonna fill themselves.

He was planning to start doing that in 2020. People said, "Don't worry, he can't do that. It's illegal. It's unconstitutional. There'd be so many lawsuits." September 11, 2019

It’s what Hitler did to the houseless and mentally ill (T is following his pattern). Interesting how only “blue” cities will be targeted. Will Newsome do anything to address this other than raze their camps and trash their few and valuable belongings? Look at Finland.

The mentality behind all this is money is seed corn to grow more money. Help the needy and your money disappears. That's bad. You fed them your seed corn. They don't see people as investments, but as drains on wealth or meat-robots who unfortunately have to be paid, which leaves them less money.

You’re right. They see them as inferior and undeserving. They think their DNA is superior.

All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others. Anyone got a bar-b-q? Short ribs are on the menu.

We do not need more housing. We need a livable wage. $66. Please call my AG if you are interested in a new economic model and free food for like a week or two. I am in Colorado.

They will take the homeless and force them to work in the fields.

Yup

They did in Miami.

Florida’s gotta Florida I guess.

Exactly the plan, same with the whole 'replacing public education with state-funded segregation academies' concept. Maximum Simon Legree cosplay, minimum immigration to prevent pernicious ideas from floating around (like 'human rights' or 'labor unions').

They’d shoot him or kneel on him, and for the next 2000 years we’d have either a gun or a knee over our doorway

Why yes they would.

So now Trump's "solution" is to criminalize the homeless. His EO from July 24th:

So did the Nazi regime. The homeless, the jobless and other "asocial" individuals were sent to work camps. And the mentally ill and disabled faced a more permanent fate. The words on this EO are a grim reminder that this time the past isn't just repeating itself, it's being rebuilt stone by stone.

How many bucks a head you think he makes for each homeless person sent to his for-profit detention camps?

Once the immigrants are deported, the MAGA concentration camps will need new inhabitants to keep the $$$ coming in. Vile.

Not an outcome I'll ever state as unavoidable.

Folks have to make $21 hr full time to have a modest apt where I am. My first apt was $360 a month when I moved out in 1996. I split that with my BF (now hubs) 50/50. I made $6.35 an hour as an asst retail manager.

It obscene. EVERYONE should have affordable housing. This country is based on the fucking rich killing off those of less substantial means. WE WERE NOT BORN TO KISS THE RICH’S ASS! AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO!

Shoot, many people can't even afford to live in their cars.

Car Insurance is way up. Simple brake job is $700!!!

I somehow managed to get a mortgage. I had to because rent was just constantly going up. But, the whole experience has left me with anxiety. Before applying for a mortgage I had low BP and little anxiety. Now two years after, I’m on meds for both.

Wait until you see the price of energy in the near future, it'll be 3x's your mortgage payment or rent.....

Yup. Median price of a home in MA just reached 1 million. Just incredible.

Thousands of them were sleeping on the streets of SF when I left in 2004.

Not ground beef...

And now Trump is criminalizing the very people who cannot afford a home because they have been victimized by the capitalist economy where wages are artificially kept as low as possible to benefit billionaires.

What better way is there to enslave a nation?

Making homelessness illegal in a nation with $7.25 an hour minimum wage is just evil.

Yep, and yet our wages stagnate and we’re constantly being asked to do more with less while the billionaire fat cats pull the puppet strings in DC and elsewhere. Is this the American Dream? Because it sure feels like a fascist nightmare to me…

And yet we do nothing 😑

And Trump & Republicans want to make homelessness the crime, when they have created the problem. 😓

It's disgusting

We hear ya in Miami!

That’s nuts. The salaries there aren’t great.

Also, most people want to insure their property (biggest asset), while FL’s ridiculous property insurance crisis is putting that out of reach for many.

remember that all mortgages require insurance. For owning or renting out... so no insurance =='s no housing. Which sure helps if the goal is to eliminate 3/4's of the population.

THIS is the hitch!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgtn... That's capitalism

Yes and it's only going to get worse. It's one of my biggest fears of what's coming.

My kids (adults with jobs) are in my home and contribute to my mortgage. We are moving into more of a multigenerational lifestyle. My mother should move in too but she’s too stubborn. I do not need to have 2500 feet for me and wife. I wish my kids could afford to have their own path but not possible

people don't seem to understand there will never be enough housing supply to satiate investment capital. everything is going to be rented back to us because of wealth inequality. Our economy is looking more like feudalism everyday. We aren't consumers, we're tenants.

One of the reasons is the Trump 1.0 tax bill. They changed depreciation and gave investors cash. It was called the gift to Kushner for a reason. The other inflationary pressures like shipping did not cause the hyper-inflation of housing.

👍👍👍 Many existing sellers need top $ to fund retirement, med bills, etc. Many existing homes are now owned by corporations seeking top $ rent. Most potential buyers have fewer $ bc the cost of living continues to go up. At least the billionaires can still afford luxury yachts.🙄

The fundamental root cause of all that ails us is quite simple: the two-party system, which encourages Americans to vote against their own interests. Elected officials have every incentive to put partisan politics above the interests of their constituents and of the country-as-a-whole. 1/

Until we eliminate the two-party system, we will never be able to solve any of the major problems facing this country and the world. 2/

I can’t 🤦‍♀️🤬

Jeff bezos.

It’s so they have a greater supply of homeless people they can scoop up from the streets and put in one of their “treatment centers”.

RFK Jr's "wellness farms" where people are sentenced to spend three or four unpaid years growing organic produce on these tech-free farms to be “re-parented” and “reconnect with communities.” And since they don't pay you, there's no sense in you leaving because homelessness is illegal.

This is the existential crisis of America. Alongside ice goons and reproductive health, and health in general. But the building block of wealth, and power, and generational uplift in America is a fucking house. We can only solve this by breaking a broken market.

One more step toward legalized slavery as incarceration laws are being made in regard to homelessness to support the prison-industrial complex.