• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Naw, it's cause landlords own apartments so they aren't maintained and they're either old or built for as cheap as humanly possible. Of anything it's the inverse where white flight to the suburbs left mostly poor and POC people in the city apartments which led to apartments being made shittier and maintained less and the trend just kept going.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Like they'd do anything at all to encourage home ownership even negative reinforcement. It's just racism and hating poor people being given a nice profit margin once again.

    • StLangoustine [any]
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      3 years ago

      Eh. Soundproofing apartments isn't cheap. Every apartment building I've lived in build in Soviet Russia or in post-soviet Russia had walls thin enough that the neighbors would annoy the shit out of you if they're noisy.