The topic of housing is so fucking depressing. My rent has gone up 50% in the last 3 years.
EDIT: I was saving up for a house, but house prices literally doubled during the pandemic in my area. A starter home was ~$200K, now it’s hard to get in the door at $400K all in 2 years. I went from being able to put 20% down to not being able to clear PMI. I make decent money and the most I’d be able to get for a loan is about $200K so I just need to find $160K to be able to buy a bottom of the barrel house that cost $180K in 2019. What the fuck are you supposed to do about that?
The last place I lived was sold to a new owner who increased the rent by $500 to bring it up to “market value”. Tried warning new tenants that they were ghouls, the management company hired someone to put new product on the floor that still wasn’t dry when they moved in and their furniture stuck to the floor.
If the apartments are being turned into hotels, why doesn’t the government simply turn the hotels into apartments?
Would be nice if there was an “ethical” filter for Airbnb. They’re often a superior way to stay when visiting a city due to proximity to local attractions and not being a hotel zombie. In Portland, the Airbnb owners have to be primary residents of whatever property they’re making available
sadly for the kind of people who stay in airbnbs this will just make it better for them
probably wank themselves off to the thought of taking up space that could be used for families of locals on their bougie holiday
