my wife and I are looking for an apartment and were just turned down because we have a one year old. Fuck kids, I guess. (not in the US - apparently discrimination is legal here).
my wife and I are looking for an apartment and were just turned down because we have a one year old. Fuck kids, I guess. (not in the US - apparently discrimination is legal here).
yeah like I have a PhD and my wife is pretty well paid, and we're gonna end up spending a quarter of our income on rent when we move. Where are people who make minimum wage supposed to live? Fucking underground?
I went to a city meeting near me a few years ago to protest one of these mega studio complexes that was going into a school. The argument was we should close the school, put studios in there, and then use the tax money to open a new school (yeah wtf?)
The developer pulled up a chart that related to age and family size and how much income they WANT to spend on rent. Yeah, WANT. The age bracket they were targeting was, according to their fancy chart, WANTING to pay 50% of their income on rent. WANTING to pay. For a studio.
That school is now a luxury studio complex and kids have to go to a different neighborhood to learn. But it's cool because you can go get coffee on the old school gym now! The floor is still original!
But sure it's the taxes that are forcing families out.
absolutely vile