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"The Rent Is Too Damned High"
“In 1960, about one in four renters paid more than 30% of income for housing. Today, one in two are cost burdened,” according to a new study (ironically) by Harvard University. As Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Peter Coy notes, the availability of apartments, especially cheaper ones, hasn’t nearly kept up with demand, and the problem has worsened since the 2007-09 recession. Remarkably, the number or people with severe cost burdens (paying over 50% of income to rent) is up by 2.5 million in just four years, to 11.3 million; and as usual, the pinch is hardest on the poor. The share of cost-burdened renters increased by a stunning 12 percentage points between 2000 and 2010, the largest jump in any decade dating back at least to 1960.
If you can’t afford to own, you can rent. But what if you can’t afford to rent, either? Millions of Americans are in precisely that situation, according to a study released today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The availability of apartments, especially cheaper ones, hasn’t nearly kept up with demand, and the problem has worsened since the 2007-09 recession, the study says.
“In 1960, about one in four renters paid more than 30 percent of income for housing. Today, one in two are cost burdened,” according to the study, America’s Rental Housing.
“Cost-burdened” means you’re paying more than 30 percent of income for housing and “severely cost-burdened” means you’re paying more than half. “By 2011, 28 percent of renters paid more than half their incomes for housing, bringing the number with severe cost burdens up by 2.5 million in just four years, to 11.3 million,” according to the Harvard study, which was conducted with partial funding from the MacArthur Foundation.
The boom in housing prices made ownership unaffordable for many families, and the subsequent bust forced others into foreclosure. You would think that all of those foreclosed homes would make great rental properties, and they have. “Remarkably,” though, the study says, “soaring demand was more than enough to absorb the 2.7 million single-family homes that flooded into the rental market after 2007.”
The result of the spike in rental demand is a seller’s market: “From a record high of 10.6 percent in 2009, the vacancy rate turned down in 2010 and has continued to slide, averaging 8.4 percent in the first three quarters of 2013.”
As usual, the pinch is hardest on the poor, those with incomes under $15,000 a year who pay at least half their incomes on rent. “With little else in their already tight budgets to cut, these renters spend about $130 less on food—a reduction of nearly 40 percent relative to those without burdens.”
The problem would get worse if Congress, in its zeal to eliminate loopholes from the tax code, were to rid of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. That tax credit provides incentives for construction or preservation of affordable housing units—about 2.2 million since 1986.
Deterioration is another potential enemy of affordable housing. According to the center’s study, more than one in five mobile homes was removed from the housing stock from 2001 to 2011.
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more than one in five mobile homes was removed from the housing stock from 2001 to 2011. Wow, that's a lot of tornados.
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH !
If we the people had a government of the people for the people, no one would have to pay rent.
Instead we have to pay ransom to the terrorists pretending to be our government.
The data in the article is just wrong. 1/2 of people do not pay 50% of their income for housing if you include government subsidies in the picture. Government subsidies/breaks are a major source of funds for many.
Yes a lot of people are paying 50% from their day job, but Uncle Sam is picking up the tab for food, etc.
I hereby crown you as sir Zaphod the Troll.
I would have invested in a small apartment complex in my current city...but now, renters have rights! Which, I completely do not get. If I own a house, no one should be able to tell me who can sleep in one of my bedrooms. But holy crap....if you own an apartment complex the government gets very involved in who you let in, AND who you kick out!
So...I'm not investing money there. Not because I don't want to deal with renters....because I don't want to deal with the government and with the army of parasitic lawyers who follow low lifes around to sue anything that breathes. No thanks.
due a bit more due dilligence on fair housing laws and you will see its not as you describe. Its probably for the better as you sound like a slumlord in the making.
We have a special breed of scammer in my state, that preys on landlords that don't do tenant background checks. Via various legal manuvers, the scammers can pretty much guarantee 3 months rent-free in any place they successfully move into, so five months rent for the price of two (first, last, sec deposit, then 3 months free.)
The crazy thing is our state laws are very biased pro-landlord. You couldn't pay me to invest in housing rentals in this environment.
learning how to screen is crucial to avoiding those type . They likely wouldnt pass a silmple credit check and crimminal backgrond check that cost under $30. Proper deposit and income verifiaction is a must. Get a co-signer and run their credit and verify their income if theyre young. aside from that is where you choose your market. I manage student housing on a major colege campus. Its been hot since 2004. No decline in income in 2008 either.
avoid govt loans and you dont have to rent to deadbeats. private+bank invesntment $ and you stay conventional and play by your rules(for the most part)
Renting to college kids is way different than renting to the average poor slob on the street with a 9-5. You can put the school kids parents on the hook for missing rent payments and damage by getting them to cosign. In the real renting world, you have to deal with people using alias's that check clean, damaging the place and then disappearing before the sheriff shows up to throw them out 2 months after you finally get a judgement. All that leaves you in the hole for all those expenses.
And lets not forget the govt' getting involved to tack on fees, higher and higher property taxes and force unnecessary code improvements that price the unit past what that poor slob can pay without a govt' hand out.
Used to be in this country that buying and building homes was part of something they used to call an "economy" before the Bankers imprisoned us all.
Your land has been stolen from you. Everything else is simply an attempt to hide this fact.
Recent observations in the universe have changed even mainstream cosmologists view of our universe and our place in it. This is for real, and things are changing very fast. Here are some quotes from just the movie trailer:
"There is a crisis in cosmology..."
Michio Kaku
"It's an exciting time in cosmology, because everything has changed..."
Lawrence Krauss
"Life is extremely rare, ..., we are in fact the only life in our entire universe and I actually think we are very significant..."
Max Tegmark
Ultimate questions about our place in the universe are addressed by the leading cosmologists in the world (e.g., Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss, Max Tegmark, George F. R. Ellis, and many more), and the answers they give will absolutely blow you away.
Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/theprinciplemovie
or
http://youtu.be/p8cBvMCucTg
Kate Mulgrew (former "Captain Janeway" on Star Trek Voyager, and a four-decade veteran of stage and screen) is our narrator.
Graphics were created by BUF Compagnie of Paris (winner of the Academy Award in 2012 for "Best Visual Effects" in the movie Life of Pi)
Music is by Richard Robson Remix (nominated for an award in 2006), with the singer-sensation, JES, singing our original theme song, "Sky Stand Still."
It will turn out better...but not on Earth as it is destined for destruction. Physicists take that question very seriously.
Thanks for the OT post.
"...not on Earth as it is destined for destruction."
Stinkin' Vogons and their hyperspace bypass.
Don't worry, you can hire your own army of parasitic lawyers to fight their parasitic lawyers... Oh, you want to make money?
the goverment is also picking up the rent tab for these millions under section 8... the problem in america is not being poor, is being middle class, you get no breaks and pay to subsidies to the Wal street bitches and the free shit army
the goverment is also picking up the rent tab for these millions under section 8... the problem in america is not being poor, is being middle class, you get no breaks and pay to subsidies to the Wal street bitches and the free shit army
zaphod said:
The data in the article is just wrong. 1/2 of people do not pay 50% of their income for housing if you include government subsidies in the picture. Government subsidies/breaks are a major source of funds for many.
Yes a lot of people are paying 50% from their day job, but Uncle Sam is picking up the tab for food, etc.
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Yep, I agree 100% - the article really blew it! They left a very significant data factor - gov't subsidies - out of the equation!
yes but the sec 42 & 8 housing you speak of make up less than 20 of renetal housing market. The free shit army resides there.
Conventioal housing if for those that carry their own weight.
This is the ugly face of capitalism and all the greed that goes with it.
How so?
"and the cock-a-roaches is eatin' my foodstamps."
They're the ones printing the food stamps instead of putting money in to jobs.
It is not the responsibility of the Government to print Food Stamps, subsidize your rent, provide health care or to create jobs. That is your responsibility.
If Government were to stop rental subsidies then vacancies will soar. Rent prices would drop as a result to fill vacancies. (Some money is better than no money....especially when you are paying a mortgage as a landlord and you have expenses.)
If Government were to stop Health Care Assistance then Medical costs would drop as Doctors would have to compete for patients.
If Government were to stop subsidizing Food expenses then food prices will fall, or, a decrease in food production will happen. (Oh well...maybe we cannot support 320 Million Americans. Some will starve.)
If Government were to stop creating jobs then people will create jobs and hire others to work for them.
Yes there would be a lot of discomfort when the Government does this. (I do NOT expect it.) However if they do not willingly do it then they will be forced to do it when the Government collapses fiscally. It will be more painful as it will be a shock when Government is forced. They can make it less painful by withdrawing a little bit over a longer time period.
Shock kills. Managed withdrawal is survivable but uncomfortable.
It is Society's choice.
But one way or another it will happen. Prepare accordingly.
You can still buy a house in Detroit for $2.99 while they last. No rent to pay. Only taxes, insurance and utilities.
plus security guards
and outdoor lights
It's fun to play Monopoly when you get $200 for passing go, when the Bankers get $2,000,000,000,000 for passing go.
Free dogs too!
Resourcesful individuals are building micro-homes. Who the fuck wants to own, paint, dust, vaccuum and generally maintain 2700sq-ft McTerminte Magnet? No man that I know does.
After you get the proper approvals and permits, here's how to build yourself a micro-home with a covered porch.
http://www.grit.com/departments/building-a-doghouse-step-by-step.aspx#ax...
The crux of this particular biscuit is that the herd has been trained to believe that begging and bribery (approvals and permits) is the 'proper' way to do things.
Fuck the state.
Yeah...government...once again....fucks it up for everybody.
calling henry george ....
Yes, rent is too damn high! I wouldn't buy a house though. You'll loose your ass. Thanks for the QE, Bernank.
So the companies that are buying up all the homes to prop up housing are going to do what when they sell?? Bundle up the properties in a trust and go public??
Since theyre getting anywheres between 50% and 100 % return on their investment per year, they are not ever going to sell them. The objective is to enslave us all for eternity. Good thing the Military and law enforcement are on their side.
"Good thing the Military and law enforcement are on their side."
The Egyptian military and people removed that puppet Morsi we tried to give them. Obama has been charged with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, yet we still can't even find enough reason to impeach him. There is no organized opposition here, Fucking bunch of wusses is what we've become.
so....BTFD in doublewides
Rent Control is around the corner. My area has already been discussing it.
Hanging the Bankers by the neck is around the corner.
The entire world is already discussing it.
Gov housing projects for all but the rich are already in the works.
Is that a different study by Harvard on how they fucked everybody?
It's part of the sustainable development program in the smart growth initiative (agenda 21).
Most renters voted for this twice. Nice job idiots.
I'll always remember the day I became a slum lord.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered"
That really is a great quote. Too bad nobody named Thomas Jefferson ever said it.
Two cats or one troll?
enslave the fucking Enslavethechild troll and put the damn troll on the bankrupt democrap entitlement plantation!
You are incorrect and correct. You are incorrect as drink or die did NOT attribute the quote to Jefferson. (You did as you inferred it.)
You are correct as Thomas Jefferson never said it.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation
But that is setting up a Strawman Argument, tearing down someone's post, by creating an argument that was not proposed.
That is a DISHONEST DEBATE TACTIC.
Down Arrow for that. I despise DISHONESTY.
Correct.
Jeffersons sentiment toward banks is well known (especially in regards to the public being liable for government transgressions & excess). I have his collected writings in my library (such as it is) as a book cannot be deformed on the intertubes to manipulate the minds of men.
As summed up here:
"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."...meaning, swindeling & cheating future generations...our children. Millennials, GenX or whatever.
Kids are not taught this in school and their parents (for the most part) are ignorant of it.
"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs."...speaks to sovereign currency, the nations currency, not private bank currency.
Kudos to you sir!
''On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of
the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal
acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND
TREASON.
Obviously, his charges have yet to be acted upon.
McFadden served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, so the man
knew what he was talking about here.
If you have any doubts that the Fed is really owned by private, FOREIGN bankers,
allow a man who lived through this travesty tell you what we’ve been telling
you…
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the
world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal
Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of
these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to
pay the Nation’s debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost
enough money to pay the National debt several times over.
This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United
States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It
has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through
the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices
of the moneyed vultures who control it.
Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government
institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these
United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign
and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.
In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man’s
throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into
states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain
International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new
concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again
in motion their gigantic train of crime.
These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted
upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our
hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money
out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a
reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along.
They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a
wedge between the allies in World War I. They financed Trotsky’s passage from
New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian
Empire.
They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of
American dollars at Trotsky’s disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so
that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian
children flung far and wide from their natural protectors.
They have since begun [the] breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of
American children. Mr. Chairman, there should be no partisanship in matters
concerning banking and currency affairs in this Country, and I do not speak with
any.
In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, made a report and presented a vicious bill called the
National Reserve Association bill. This bill is usually spoken of as the Aldrich
bill.
Senator Aldrich did not write the Aldrich bill. He was the tool, if not the
accomplice, of the European bankers who for nearly twenty years had been
scheming to set up a central bank in this Country and who in 1912 had spent and
were continuing to spend vast sums of money to accomplish their purpose.
We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who rule the
Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power
there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of
government.
Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration,
under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind
Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical
institution of the ‘King’s Bank’ to control us from the top downward, and from
the cradle to the grave.
The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing
business. It discriminated against our One-Name commercial paper, the finest in
the world, and it set up the antiquated Two-Name paper, which is the present
curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it
scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers
of the Constitution sought to save us.”
Wow! You never read that in one of your ‘doctored up’ history books, did you?''
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/stuff-conspiracy-theories-are-made-emer...
Too bad nobody named Thomas Jefferson ever said it.
Really? I bet you a dollar he did say that.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation
In the eyes of the government we're all renters.
In the eyes of the government we're livestock.
We the sheeple/slaves/zombies
...deserve better leadersheep than we get from wall street...
I think there is a vault at one of the rothchilds palaces that is actualy the deed to the USA.
In the eyes of the banks (the Fed) we are all renters...
"Fuck your rent, nigga." - Obama
Along with rent being too damned high, cost of food and utilities, this might be amusing to some and down right scary to others considering the state of our economy and the "priorities" by a Federal Government left unchecked that feel that unlimited spending and the debt that comes with it should not and will not stop.
http://www.hangthebankers.com/new-us-intelligence-seal-evil-octopus-strangling-the-world/
I'm particularly smitten with the two patches at the bottom of the attached -
Wisdom Imparts Strength / Strength Defends Freedom
or if you prefer the Masonic Illuminati crowd -
Supra Summus and Get your Kicks on 66 with Satan hurtling skyward!
After viewing NROs spirited patches I certainly feel good about America's future direction.
Solution: tiny houses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTTwzwKLZak
More reasonable, livable solution - cottage movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWLviXW6x8
Spend $40K to $80K, reap utility savings for a lifetime, and reject being a debt slave.
take 40k and buy 10 good acres.
Good acreage usually locks one into a commute. OK if close to retirement.
This couple pretty much got it right. About $40K in Ohio by doing most work himself.
http://littlehouseonthehill.weebly.com/
End the fed. Begin the treasury. End criminal interest rates. Begin zero interest loans. End circulating money at the top of the pyramid. Begin circulating money at the bottom of the pyramid where it's most needed. End putting the poor in prison. Begin putting the filthy rich criminals at the top in prison.
enslave the fucking Enslavethechild troll and put the damn troll on the bankrupt democrap entitlement plantation!
who let this fucktard out of the barn?
Wow. For 40K those people did a nice job.
Very nice.
That blog was awesome. They built a beautiful home.
Isn't it? I'm still checking out his barn and chicken coup.
Mrs. chunga and I have something similar going on a couple of plateaus to the west and south of CD. The road we live on was named after our closest neighbor (we can't see their house) and their family has been here since the civil war. Very nice folks, the wife actually invited us over for Thanksgiving, a very nice gesture that we took them up on. There is more ATV traffic on this road than cars but a mere 30 minutes away you'll find the ubiquitous Walmart, Lowes, and all that crap.
Property tax = $290/year.
Death Pledge payment = $0.
Priceless!
I've got a nice mix of well seasoned oak and hickory burning in the fireplace and some cold beer. I promised the Mrs. I'd learn a few Christmas tunes for her on the guitar and have managed to blend Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Dixie-Land together and it actually sounds pretty good on the strat. LOL!
This kind of living isn't for everyone...but we love it. I turned my compost pile over this morning and it was steaming hot. It gave me a woodie for a few minutes.
They wondered, "Will we get on each other's nerves?", but after paring down their "stuff", being able to easily cover energy needs, and knowing their retirement in a few years is more secure, they have peace of mind.
Sleeping in Grandma and Grandpa's loft will probably be one of the grand-kids' favorite memories.
I just watched "I Am" on Netflix. The director of Ace Ventrua Pet Detective moved into his first, large CA mansion and remembered consciously thinking he was no happier than before, so he explored what humans consider valuable across cultures and over time. "Stuff" like large living spaces has little lasting effect on satisfaction or happiness.
When I was 2 months old my parents bought a 4 bedroom home in a great neighborhood - for $8,900.
28 years later I bought my first home for $43,000.
25 years after that my daughter bought her first home for $160,000.
Sure - let's ignore the value of the dollar - accept a large dick in our ass and move into a fucking shoe box without running water.
I am sure the "new American dream" should include having a home on wheels.
WTF sort of PC ass hole calls a house a "Katrina home"? But at least it had nice "winduz"
@grid-b-gone: right on !!
Make tiny houses legal, now! Building code prohibits them in many places in the States.
Homelessness is created by opressive gov't. Freedom is the Answer.
San Francisco is fucking crazy; that is all I have to say. They are building tons of new apratment buildings; mostly upper-high-end. They sell them mostly to retards, from overseas, or new google employees. When they complete all the construction, garuntee, the economy will nose dive and all these REIT investors will get fucked.
Sorry you are wrong. None of them are for sale. They are all for rent to the slaves and software engineer slaves. More expensive to rent than stay at Holiday Inn
Seeing the same in a suburb of Washington D.C. Northern Virginia. Building commerical and residential properties like crazy to augment the Metro line expansion out to IAD which is going through one of the more expensive trendy shopping and living communities. Metro has already increased the fare price almost 15% within the last 2 months to pay for it, and the service has been delayed repeatedly into schedule for normal operation.
The trouble is that this corridor has over 15 hotels already that are never even close to being full occupancy with commerical rents that are in the stratosphere with older office buildings that collectively boast more than 3 million square feet of unoccupied space and growing for several years now. While it's putting construction crews to work it's what is coming behind it to generate the growth after they are built that is the biggest question.
Guess San Francisco and the Washington Metro area took a course in real estate development from the Chinese. Should be interesting to track who ends up buying all of it when the "open for business" signs go up.
"putting construction crews to work" that's all i see too.
The number of billionaires in the world has TRIPLED in the LAST FIVE YEARS. Tells you absolutley EVERYTHING you need to know about this system.
Be happy if you're not a part of it. Because what you had to go through to get there tells the real story.
Its a map of criminal invasion
To protect and serve - the criminal terrorist government....
Haven't hedgies & PE firms been the biggest buyers/owners of rentals for the past 5 years or so?
Gee, I'm sure historically high rents (targeting the low-end, of course) & historically high hedgie/PE rental ownership is just a coincidence and not a correlation, right?
How does this post/article fail to connect these dots?
Long cropsharing!
Long guillotines
OK I downvoted myself, I like yours better!
And I can't rent at break-even in SC Myrtle bch...
After my 2nd deevoorce, I lived in a 1976 Holiday Rambler where I met my 3rd wife. She was the only one who would come back after visiting my humble abode.
I am still with her or vice/versa, not sure.
I head to the woods tomorrow for 3 days in a 20ft coachman, seems like old times
Well THAT sure justifies the Federal Reserve...
Life is so much better when you live in a van down by the river!
But the Fed says there is no inflation....
Isn't the low-income tax credit really just corporate welfare? From wikipedia
“Remarkably,” though, the study says,“soaring demand was more than enough to absorb the 2.7 million single-family homes that flooded into the rental market after 2007.”
This is not at all remarkable given the huge number of homes that have been taken off the market. In Detroit and elsewhere they are tearing down entire neighborhoods. Even here in the bay area every street has a vacant house. They are kicking out foreclosed borrowers and their tenants and leaving the houses vacant to decrease supply: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0tW_g2bNg
Er....what's "income"?
With the assistance of the Fed, banks are not foreclosing and are witholding properties from the market, causing rents and home prices to be too high. The Fed is also forcing interest rates to be too low, hurting retirees. In theory, low interest rates should help new home buyers, but banks aren't making loans so the low interest rates don't really benefit anyone except the banks.
"low interest rates should help new home buyers"
in reality jobless people can not repay the loans even with zero interest rates
Sorry, but I am tired about hearing about the "poor". Had we not been destroying the middle class, adding to the rolls of the poor as fast as governmentally possible, we would not be in this position.
You need to ask where the hell all these nouveau poor are coming from.
It's the Obama legacy, to be sure.
new poor are imports. like most mumbo jumbo written and designed to confuse, this is a one sentence article. let's get right to the money quote. "things will be much worse if congress gets rid of the low income housing credit". bullshit. great idea. let's build more crap housing do we can import more people that can't support themselves. how about this. let housing reset to the only credible metric. the average wage needs to afford the the average rent/mortgage. gonna be some unhappy .govs as the tax base resets, so what? has to happen. in the words of a wise man on these boards, fuck the police. fuck the firefighters. fuck the teachers. once honorable professions gone grifter. there is no excuse
When I make it big, I am going to live in a fixed up Airstream
It ain't home until you take the wheels off...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rydkOqLxngE
There were 5,000 free black landowners in the Confederate States at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Just sayin...
When I look at the data, which i frequently do, typical 2Br/1Bth rents are <2.5x Median HH income and sometimes quite a bit less.
Heh. Median income:
Salary, engineer, Santa Clara $120,000.00
HH income, Airport Worker $12,200.00
Taco Bell worker, $10,900
Median: $12,200.00
See what you can do with statistics?
The Section 8 welfare housing pays directly to the landlord. What would be affordable housing is not available to those who earn income to pay rent, because landlords prefer the guaranteed rent to the unguaranteed rent of low wage earners. The government competes against the low wage earners and drives up the price of low priced housing.
Excellent analysis. Indeed, subsidies put a floor on rent prices just as subsidies does for everything else. What government pays for in subsidizing renters is the lowest prices landlords willing to go for, or not surpass. It basically sets a what is equivalent a minimum wage on rents. Where minimum wage sets how low wages can go for, subsidies for rent can set the lowest price rent can go for as well. A landlord rather have a vacant living space for section 8 destitute than a low wage earner who does not have the guarantee of government behind him, or her. Section 8 further removes the risk for the landlord of not having rent due. It removes the incentive to satisfy consumers of variety of demographics to maximize profits, instead have a preference for only one group of people over others in the their respective market niches.
The local governments are starting to want their cut as well with yearly rental licencing fees and inspections in order for an owner/landlord to rent. Otherwise there are large fines and fees.
fucking grifters. a license to rent out your house. fuck the firemen
Live in a trailer. Move elsewhere when the costs become too high. Property taxes are cheaper on undeveloped land.
Fuck you. Get a roommate. Or two.
Shit, the fucking Mexicans can manage.
the direction is clear - people will work for food and live in employer provided homes
i believe in the past they called it slavery
There had to be a rent seekers, silver lining in the foreclosure cloud. And the Wall St mates have found it!
The solution to unaffordable housing thus, & unaffordable rents is this.... Become like the naturalist Eustance Conway, move to the woods, build your own house with the materials in the surrounding environment. Will cost you little to no money, but trouble is, building codes will coerce you to spend a lot of money to keep the cheap house compliant, and well the cheap house, becomes an unaffordable house.
Economizing man is very capable of producing cheap houses, thing is, will the government even allow it in the first place. People who lived in 1776 in the wilderness lived in very cheap housing in relation to today cheapest houses allowed by government. Such houses built back in 1776 in the wilderness is a crime today. The economy in general is wealthier than 1776, so we take for granted for those who do have a modern dwelling as we know today, because of wealth we acculumated. If building codes today existed back in 1776, most dwellings wouldn't even exist, thus man would have to resort to living outside in the harshness of the wilderness unsheltered.