Pandemic-era eviction postponements and federal assistance programs have expired, leaving renters vulnerable to the eviction filings that have dramatically increased nationwide. As wages can’t keep up with higher housing prices, landlords make the ultimate decision on whether to evict, oftentimes at...
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Well, I'm not sure about other nations, but there was also a lot of new progressive reform such as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and The New Deal of 1933 in the USA. I don't really feel like the nazis or japanese had much to do with ending the great depression.
Still waiting for people to come together. For a few years now I've been getting responses such as, "I can't risk my job/home/food/pay/etc." Still wondering how much more it'll take. Cause all of that is being taken away in some form with inaction.
My BlueSky feed is increasingly filling up with "I am short $X for rent and if I don't make it I'll be evicted" panic-posts.
Not saying this is some kind of leading indicator for a bad economy, but we did just spend the last two years telling people rents can only go up while wages must remain static.
So like $2000 a month for 12 months, which was what I paid on 2018.
My one shitty apartment complex absolutely said that if we don't file a renewal for $3000/month, we'll automatically be paying month to month at $4200/month.
If the contract is up, is there a limit or can you increase at much as you can ?
Can you refuse to renew, envic the tenant , then put up higher price ?
Where I live, you can only (legally) increase rent by something like 4% per year. But if the price increase is within the legal limit, and the tenant doesn't want to (or can't) pay the new price, they either willingly move or are forcibly removed from the premises when they don't pay.
That's literally what they do. Every single landlord I've had has been the equivalent fusion of Mr. Krabs and Plankton.
A few apartments ago, the pipes sprung a leak and destroyed my living room wall. The landlord ignored it for two months. They would answer my phone and immediately hang up. I notified the city, who sent a health inspector that took one look at the black mold and said the LL had to fix it. They "complied" by slapping a new coat of paint on the wall. When I got my renewal later that year, they raised my rent from $1800 to almost $4000.
Housing costs aren't rising. Leeches are just demanding more and apparently owning all the land let's you do that because land ownership is only a right for hedge fund babies.