#high rent

[abocador-memetic]

#low wages #high rent #rent #unions #kill the landlord

[vanishingsydney]

What remains of a former late Victorian era mansion, that's been significantly modified, re-built and extended to create multiple über-lux apartments. Lilyfield.

#vintage #old mansion #modified #re-built #streetscape #late victorian era architecture #facade #apartments #high rent #über-lux #it's a sign #gentrification #skyline #yuppie scum #inner west sydney

[kp777]

#california #corporate landlords #high rent #corporate greed

[loz37]

So glad we bought our hovel when we did but mortgage rates are still a bitch.

#funny memes #british problems #english politics #british politics #english political struggles #politics #government policy #new ruler #new king of england #new king #king charles accession #king charles iii #dumpster rental #high rent #renting #rent increase #energy bills #energy crisis #living expenses #housing #housing costs #housing crisis #mortgage #cost of life #cost of living crisis #cost of living #cost of living uk #social media #13th century #history

[abybweisse]

My rent is probably going up higher than I can afford, but so is rent everywhere in my city, unless it's an absolute slum where the threat of violence is real (like real real). So, I might actually have to move out of Austin... but still drive in to work here.

Right now, I think I'll do research for old posts in draft. Ignore rent woes. Search for dish patterns and chapter scenes.

#off topic slightly #blogging #me in real life #me irl #apt search #high rent #research #random #may 10 2022

[seventhdiscipleworldwide]

Sheeesh😕

#rent #rent is too damn high #apartments for rent #high rent #rent increase

[nando161mando]

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help

#capitalism #rent is theft #landlords are parasites #poverty #class war #fyi #psa #rent is too damn high #homeless #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #classwar #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #neoliberal capitalism #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #fuck the gop #fuck the police #fuck the supreme court #fuck the patriarchy

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"ASSAULTED LANDLORD NOW WAITS SENTENCE," Toronto Star. April 30, 1943. Page 27. ---- Larry O'Shea to Hear Penalty May 3 Charge Against Brother Dismissed ---- "B" Police Court at City Hall, Magistrate Prentice. Larry O'Shea was convicted by Magistrate Prentice in B police court today of aggravated assault upon W. M. Tramner and was remanded in custody to May 3 for sentence. A joint charge against his brother, Michael O'Shea, was dismissed.

Tramner said Larry O'Shea had been a tenant in his Beech Ave. home and that he had given him notice to vacate.

They met later in a beverage room and Larry O'Shea had been abusive, Tramner said. The quarrel continued on a street car, but when Tramner thought it was ended he had taken the O'Shea brothers into another beverage room to buy them drinks. Later, when awaiting a streetcar he had suddenly been struck by Larry O'Shea, knocked down and his nose and jaw broken.

Larry O'Shea stated that the night before Tramner had dared him to come downstairs and fight. He claimed that because he had refused to withdraw a complaint laid with the wartime prices and trade board, Tramner had struck him without warning. He admitted that he had struck Tramner three blows in self-defence.

"Even if he struck in self-defence there was more force used than was necessary," ruled the court.

For passing eight worthless cheques, Gordon Marr was sentenced to six months on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently with a penitentiary term he is now serving.

#toronto #police court #aggravated assault #renters vs landlords #resisting evictions #landlordism #beaten up #direct action #wartime prices and trade board #high rent #false pretences #sentenced to the penitentiary #kingston penitentiary #canada during world war 2 #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[stormweaver42]

Resilience in the Face of Change: The Fontyn Family's Journey to a New Home

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, life derails our meticulously laid plans. Over the past few years, my family and I have been living in a home owned by a trust set up by my wife Britt’s grandmother. We attempted to repair the house as best we could, improve our credit score, and align our stars so that come October of this year, we could call the house our own. However, about a month ago, our…

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#Blog journal #change #family #high rent #Homelessness #Housing #new home #resilience #Self Published

[unaffordableamericanlandwhy]

High Rent Plus Debt Equals Homelessness

The greed of some of these landlords are forcing people into the streets. No matter how much someone is paid, or how much the Government tries to assist senior citizen’s, Veterans, and low-income families...the cost of rent keeps people in danger of remaining or becoming homeless. Income keeps going up and rent keeps going up. Some of these landlords are literally robbing people, mom and pop businesses, and the Government. There needs to be laws enforced to keep greedy landlords in check.

Then there is the credit card debt. We seem to live in a world were nothing can be enjoyed or lived without a credit card. This seems to lure people into a deep pool of debt. I have witnessed, when you work for 40-50 years on your credit rating and work to retire without debt...then in a flash, you lose all those years of credit rating when you do retire without debt. So why would you support any predators (I mean creditors) with your credit rating if they can take it in an instant. The only debt should be house and/or auto. To live without a credit card is a lifestyle choice, where you must learn to do without a few things and learn to find a purpose filled life that can be enjoyed without a credit card being required. Learn to save up, rediscover a life with less stress. Work To Live, NOT work for debt. Learn to view a credit card as a prison sentence.

Let Us All Stand Our Ground For Affordable Homes.  

#Rent #High Rent #Income #Homelessness #Debt #Credit #Credit Cards #Greed #Landlords #Senior Citizens #Veterans #Small business #low income families #Housing #retirement #Work #Jobs #minimum wage #Credit Rating #affordable homes #affordable rent #Affordable Life

[brennan-lee-mother]

Between "Hey girlie", "What are you, four dogs?" and slowly pirouetting in the middle of a conversation with her parents, Kristen has truly reached critical levels of unhinged this season. And it's only the third episode.

#i love love love her energy its so fucking insane #hey girlie lives in my mind rent free #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #d20 #kristen applebees #ally beardsley #mera speaks

[moshaeu]

it has been a long eight hundred years

from kyasuu’s where dreams are laid to rest

#honkai star rail #jing yuan #dan feng #yinyue jun #jingliu #baiheng #yingxing #high cloud quintet #this fic has lived in my head rent free for months #its so good #let him cry…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Housing is a labor issue

There's a reason Reagan declared war on unions before he declared war on everything else – environmental protection, health care, consumer rights, financial regulation. Unions are how working people fight for a better world for all of us. They're how everyday people come together to resist oligarchy, extraction and exploitation.

Take the 2019 LA teachers' strike. As Jane McAlevey writes in A Collective Bargain, the LA teachers didn't just win higher pay for their members! They also demanded (and got) an end to immigration sweeps of parents waiting for their kids at the school gate; a guarantee of green space near every public school in the city; and on-site immigration counselors in LA schools:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/

Unionization is enjoying an historic renaissance. The Hot Labor Summer transitioned to an Eternal Labor September, and it's still going strong, with UAW president Shawn Fain celebrating his members victory over the Big Three automakers by calling for a 2028 general strike:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/uaw-general-strike-no-class

The rising labor movement has powerful allies in the Biden Administration. NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is systematically gutting the "union avoidance" playbook. She's banned the use of temp-work app blacklists that force workers to cross picket lines:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

She's changed the penalty for bosses who violate labor law during union drives. It used to be the boss would pay a fine, which was an easy price to pay in exchange for killing your workers' union. Now, the penalty is automatic recognition of the union:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

And while the law doesn't allow Abruzzo to impose a contract on companies that refuse to bargain their unions, she's set to force those companies to honor other employers' union contracts until they agree to a contract with their own workers:

https://onlabor.org/gc-abruzzo-just-asked-the-nlrb-to-overturn-ex-cell-o-heres-why-that-matters/

She's also nuking TRAPs, the deals that force workers to repay their employers for their "training expenses" if they have the audacity to quit and get a better job somewhere else:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

(As with every aspect of the Biden White House, its labor policy is contradictory and self-defeating, with other Biden appointees working to smash worker power, including when Biden broke the railworkers' strike:)

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/#now-make-me-do-it

A surging labor movement opens up all kinds of possibilities for a better world. Writing for the Law and Political Economy Project, UNITE Here attorney Zoe Tucker makes the case for unions as a way out of America's brutal housing crisis:

https://lpeproject.org/blog/why-unions-should-join-the-housing-fight/

She describes how low-waged LA hotel workers have been pushed out of neighborhoods close to their jobs, with UNITE Here members commuting three hours in each direction, starting their work-days at 3AM in order to clock in on time:

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1669088899769987079

UNITE Here members are striking against 50 hotels in LA and Orange County, and their demands include significant cost-of-living raises. But more money won't give them back the time they give up to those bruising daily commutes. For that, unions need to make housing itself a demand.

As Tucker writes, most workers are tenants and vice-versa. What's more, bad landlords are apt to be bad bosses, too. Stepan Kazaryan, the same guy who owns the strip club whose conditions were so bad that it prompted the creation of Equity Strippers NoHo, the first strippers' union in a generation, is also a shitty landlord whose tenants went on a rent-strike:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the-missing-links/#plunderphonics

So it was only natural that Kazaryan's tenants walked the picket line with the Equity Stripper Noho workers:

https://twitter.com/glendaletenants/status/1733290276599570736?s=46

While scumbag bosses/evil landlords like Kazaryan deal out misery retail, one apartment building at a time, the wholesale destruction of workers' lives comes from private equity giants who are the most prolific source of TRAPs, robo-scabbing apps, illegal union busting, and indefinite contract delays – and these are the very same PE firms that are buying up millions of single-family homes and turning them into slums:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/08/wall-street-landlords/#the-new-slumlords

Tucker's point is that when a worker clocks out of their bad job, commutes home for three hours, and gets back to their black-mold-saturated, overpriced apartment to find a notice of a new junk fee (like a surcharge for paying your rent in cash, by check, or by direct payment), they're fighting the very same corporations.

Unions who defend their workers' right to shelter do every tenant a service. A coalition of LA unions succeeded in passing Measure ULA, which uses a surcharge on real estate transactions over $5m to fund "the largest municipal housing program in the country":

https://unitedtohousela.com/app/uploads/2022/05/LA_City_Affordable_Housing_Petition_H.pdf

LA unions are fighting for rules to limit Airbnbs and other platforms that transform the city's rental stock into illegal, unlicensed hotels:

https://upgo.lab.mcgill.ca/publication/strs-in-los-angeles-2022/Wachsmuth_LA_2022.pdf

And the hotel workers organized under UNITE Here are fighting their own employers: the hoteliers who are aggressively buying up residences, evicting their long-term tenants, tearing down the building and putting up a luxury hotel. They got LA council to pass a law requiring hotels to build new housing to replace any residences they displace:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-28/airbnb-operators-would-need-police-permit-in-l-a-under-proposed-law

UNITE Here is bargaining for a per-room hotel surcharge to fund housing specifically for hotel workers, so the people who change the sheets and clean the toilets don't have to waste six hours a day commuting to do so.

Labor unions and tenant unions have a long history of collaboration in the USA. NYC's first housing coop was midwifed by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1927. The Penn South coop was created by the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. The 1949 Federal Housing Act passed after American unions pushed hard for it:

http://www.peterdreier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Labors-Love-Lost.pdf

It goes both ways. Strong unions can create sound housing – and precarious housing makes unions weaker. Remember during the Hollywood writers' strike, when an anonymous studio ghoul told the press the plans was to "allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses?"

Vienna has the most successful housing in any major city in the world. It's the city where people of every income and background live in comfort without being rent-burdened and without worry about eviction, mold, or leaks. That's the legacy of Red Vienna, the Austrian period of Social Democratic Workers' Party rule and built vast tracts of high-quality public housing. The system was so robust that it rebounded after World War II and continues to this day:

https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/

Today, the rest of the world is mired in a terrible housing crisis. It's not merely that the rent's too damned high (though it is) – housing precarity is driving dangerous political instability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/06/the-rents-too-damned-high/

Turning the human necessity of shelter into a market commodity is a failure. The economic orthodoxy that insists that public housing, rent control, and high-density zoning will lead to less housing has failed. rent control works:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset

Leaving housing to the market only produces losers. If you have the bad luck to invest everything you have into a home in a city that contracts, you're wiped out. If you have the bad luck into invest everything into a home in a "superstar city" where prices go up, you also lose, because your city becomes uninhabitable and your children can't afford to live there:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/27/lethal-dysfunction/#yimby

A strong labor movement is the best chance we have for breaking the housing deadlock. And housing is just for starters. Labor is the key to opening every frozen-in-place dysfunction. Take care work: the aging, increasingly chronically ill American population is being tortured and murdered by private equity hospices, long-term care facilities and health services that have been rolled up by the same private equity firms that destroyed work and housing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

In her interview with Capital & Main's Jessica Goodheart, National Domestic Workers Alliance president Ai-jen Poo describes how making things better for care workers will make things better for everyone:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-12-13-labor-leader-ai-jen-poo-interview/

Care work is a "triple dignity investment": first, it makes life better for the worker (most often a woman of color), then, it allows family members of people who need care to move into higher paid work; and of course, it makes life better for people who need care: "It delivers human potential and agency. It delivers a future workforce. It delivers quality of life."

The failure to fund care work is a massive driver of inequality. America's sole federal public provision for care is Medicaid, which only kicks in after a family it totally impoverished. Funding care with tax increases polls high with both Democrats and Republicans, making it good politics:

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/4/7/voters-support-investing-in-the-care-economy

Congress stripped many of the care provisions from Build Back Better, missing a chance for an "unprecedented, transformational investment in care." But the administrative agencies picked up where Congress failed, following a detailed executive order that identifies existing, previously unused powers to improve care in America. The EO "expands access to care, supports family caregivers and improves wages and conditions for the workforce":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/04/18/executive-order-on-increasing-access-to-high-quality-care-and-supporting-caregivers/

States are also filling the void. Washington just created a long-term care benefit:

https://apnews.com/article/washington-long-term-care-tax-disability-cb54b04b025223dbdba7199db1d254e4

New Mexicans passed a ballot initiative that establishes permanent funding for child care:

https://www.cwla.org/new-mexico-votes-for-child-care/

New York care workers won a $3/hour across the board raise:

https://inequality.org/great-divide/new-york-budget-fair-pay-home-care/

The fight is being led by women of color, and they're kicking ass – and they're doing it through their unions. Worker power is the foundation that we build a better world upon, and it's surging.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/13/i-want-a-roof-over-my-head/#and-bread-on-the-table

#pluralistic #labor #hot labor summer #eternal labor september #jane mcalevey #los angeles #weaponized shelter #housing #airbnb #equity strip noho #tenants unions #red vienna #jennifer abruzzo #nlrb #the rent's too damned high

[supportingeducation]

California School District vs Rent

Low Wages and Rent Hikes Force Teachers Out of Neighborhoods They Teach In

A California school district is asking parents to help them find new teachers, by renting out rooms in their homes for cheap. Milpitas Unified School District, located in the San Francisco Bay area, has 18 schools and over 450 teachers for approximately 10,000 students. They aren’t particularly wealthy as a district, but housing prices in the area certainly don’t reflect that. The district lost…

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#California #cheryl jordan #high rent #milpitas unified school district #teacher wages

[an-honest-puck]

ok no but I'm still thinking about ep13 where Zac has to 'play dumb' because he figured out the Kalvaxus link and realises that Gorgug wouldn't make the connection so he just keeps going "Wait, Kalvaxus? KalVaXus????" and trying to make eye contact with Emily and Siobhan in an attempt to telepathically get them to pick up what he's trying to lay down and Brennan's just smiling because he can see Zac's already figured it out and he's trying to let his party know while still staying in character

#gahhhhh!!!! #i'm just about to start the prompocalypse eps but i'm still thinking about this moment y'all #this interaction lives in my brain rent free apparently #just zac trying to subtly steer the group to the answer and brennan smiling because he knows what zac's doing #zac oyama #brennan lee mulligan #d20 fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #dropout #gorgug thistlespring #day says hey #d20 with day

[spielzeugkaiser]

[MASTERPOST]

Milek has high expectations how that talk should go, but also many many fears. And he does talk shit about Jaskier all the time, but I think their relationship wouldn't recover for a long time (maybe never) if Geralt said something wrong or nasty about Jaskier, because Milek is a loyal boy.

#the witcher #geraskier lovechild #ciri #cirilla fiona elen riannon #artists on tumblr #Milek and Ciri start to have a sibling relationship! #he starts to confine in her!! #he is a very scared boy at the core who wants to be loved by his father #he has high expectations but also high fears #he wants Geralt to be 100% happy and accepting immediately but he also knows that realistically it's a shock but he also #the worst case scenario also lives rent free in his head #but the most important thing is that they find Jaskier!!! so everything has to wait