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Postby MacCruiskeen » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:57 pm

Martha Lauren‏ @NQRW 17. Apr.

The idea of rent burden as greater than a third of income is darkly comic in a city where rents are regularly greater than half of incomes.


To put that another way: Londoners regularly labour for two weeks out of each month solely for the benefit of property owners.


07:17 - 17. Apr. 2017

Rents consume half of London's energy and productivity; life and soul.

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Jacob Charles Wilson‏ @jclwilson 17. Apr.
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Re: Rent

Postby Grizzly » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:20 pm

tangentially related...


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Re: Rent

Postby norton ash » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:49 pm



It's too high everywhere. If you can live in a city in a decent place, you're usually working for the Pharaoh.
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Re: Rent

Postby Iamwhomiam » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:45 pm

Ludicrous, Mac. Feudalism indeed.

Grizzly, I sure hope that doesn't wind up before the Supremes.

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Couldn't resist.

! I edited out the Vermin Supreme clip after listening to offensive comments towards its end. A voice was heard saying "He's turning gay! He's turning gay!" when Vermin began sprinkling fairy dust on the heads of candidates he was there to debate. Sorry.
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Re: Rent

Postby 82_28 » Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:08 pm

Rent is so damned lame in this city and my former one. Completely unaffordable. You like living here, schmuck? Cough it up. I just don't want to live away from a city and within walking distance of shit. Again, see that there Adam Curtis Hypernormaiisation.



NYC was literally bought by the banks in it's decline or whatever it was.

Here there is of course the:

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I remember when the Broncos played the Giants in some dumb Superbowl the NYC people came in to Denver and made fun of Denver's "WTC" for being too short. Sure, sure the team got blown out in the game. But there was/is a WTC in Denver. I assume they are all affiliated but I have no idea. However, same era.

At the time a friend of mine was paying $300 (I think) in rent in a building that is going for around $2,000 now. Go figure.

This shit gonna crash. (I think).
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Re: Rent

Postby 82_28 » Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:30 pm

In costly Bay Area, even six-figure salaries are considered ‘low income’

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/i ... ow-income/

In the high-priced Bay Area, even some households that bring in six figures a year can now be considered “low income.”

That’s according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which recently released its 2017 income limits — a threshold that determines who can qualify for affordable and subsidized housing programs such as Section 8 vouchers.


Read the rest at link above.
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Re: Rent

Postby JackRiddler » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:17 pm

Iamwhomiam » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:45 pm wrote:! I edited out the Vermin Supreme clip after listening to offensive comments towards its end. A voice was heard saying "He's turning gay! He's turning gay!" when Vermin began sprinkling fairy dust on the heads of candidates he was there to debate. Sorry.


That's Vermin Supreme's voice. It was part of his act. He sprinkled an anti-gay candidate with fairy dust that turned him gay.
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Re: Rent

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Re: Rent

Postby elfismiles » Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:05 am

Yep ... gentriFUCKation. :mad2

Back in the early to mid-90s I was renting a huge garage apartment (2-story, 4-bedroom, 1.5 baths) for $500 a month. Last I checked it was going for $5,000 a month.

I was priced out of my own town back in the late 1990s here in Austin ... literally moved into a unabomer shack out in the woods along Boggy Creek(s, one of two) just south of Austin's THEN city limit.

Can't afford to own a home in the neighborhoods in which I was raised because of the property taxes - may get priced out by them with my current house before we pay the banks off for it.

Meanwhile ... rent is forcing many of Austin's most culturally characteristic charismatic businesses OUT of business... not to mention forcing ethnic minorities out of the very neighborhoods they were forced INTO due to racism.

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The UT National Association of Black Journalists presents "blackout.", a documentary on the recent gentrification in Austin, TX. The University of Texas at Austin recently published an article on the accelerated rate blacks are leaving the city contrary to Austin's rapid growth, an trend unique to our city. We explore the effects of the arts, belonging, and gentrification in Austin's black community.



UT's Eric Tang on Why African-Americans Are Leaving Austin | The ...
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May 31, 2016 - In 2014, UT professor (and Alcalde Texas 10 awardee) Eric Tang found that ... UT's Eric Tang on Why African-Americans Are Leaving Austin ... writing in the report, “These patterns do not square with Austin's reputation as a ...

Leaving Home: Austin's Declining African American Population ‹ Life ...
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Nov 21, 2016 - Leaving Home: Austin's Declining African American Population ... in Austin, Texas, and its effects on the city's African American community. .... the final report, “Those Who Left: On Austin's Declining African-American Population. ... “It is, to me, kind of sad that it's a UT professor to finally get people to listen, ...

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Jan 27, 2016 - The story that listeners chose is about Austin's African American. ... first installment of a project we're calling ATXplained, KUT's Mose Buchele reports. ... Credit From the University of Texas ... Longtime residents are leaving.

UT report: Rising costs, school woes push blacks to leave Austin
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May 20, 2016 - According to the results of a new University of Texas survey, about three-quarters of the African-American homeowners who left Austin for the ...

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Why Are Black People Leaving Austin? - EBONY
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Aug 7, 2014 - Experts Discuss Solutions for Austin's Black Population Shift ... According to a recent report from the University of Texas (UT), Austin saw an overall ... If [African Americans] move away, we're leaving so much on the table.

Feeling "Invisible," Black Residents Leave Austin | The Texas Tribune
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Jul 18, 2014 - Among large, fast-growing cities, Austin is the only one with a shrinking African-American population, according to a report from the University ...

Austin's Black Population Leaving City, Report Says - The New York ...
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Jul 17, 2014 - (U.T.-Austin is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune.) ... residents are leaving Austin — which is 8 percent African-American — for suburbs ...

How gentrification and racism is pushing black people out of Austin in ...
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We're Still Here: Assessing the continuing black Austin experience ...
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Jan 8, 2016 - The highly informative and much-discussed report by University of Texas assistant professor Eric Tang on blacks leaving Austin shows a ...
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Re: Rent

Postby Luther Blissett » Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:40 am

To anyone reading this in a similar situation, I recommend trying to organize a community-wide tenants union. Tenants of a building here just visited their landlord's office and one of the tenants read a letter stating their demands and left it for him. A day later, that landlord is targeting the people of color out of that group for eviction. The people have now organized a rent strike. More to come.

With the recent simultaneous blackouts in San Francisco and New York City late last week, the news that $100,000 salaries have crossed into "low-income" territory, and increasing concentrations of property holdings in these major cities as investments for an ever-shrinking number of reptiles, we're coming to something extraordinarily strange.

Many of my friends like to fight me on UBI. I attempted to organize a structured dialogue about paths forward regarding wages and jobs. Actually progressive paths forward as alternates to UBI and especially without any sort of unrealistic regression are nearly impossible to perceive. I'm convinced it's UBI or the myriad forms of disaster / collapse / calamity / dystopia as alternative.
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Re: Rent

Postby NeonLX » Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:53 am

Hey Luther, what is UBI? I'm getting strange results from the Google.
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Re: Rent

Postby Luther Blissett » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:12 pm

Universal Basic Income. I only brought it up since the concept is very closely tied to job automation and housing.
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Re: Rent

Postby Iamwhomiam » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:56 pm

JackRiddler » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:17 pm wrote:
Iamwhomiam » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:45 pm wrote:! I edited out the Vermin Supreme clip after listening to offensive comments towards its end. A voice was heard saying "He's turning gay! He's turning gay!" when Vermin began sprinkling fairy dust on the heads of candidates he was there to debate. Sorry.


That's Vermin Supreme's voice. It was part of his act. He sprinkled an anti-gay candidate with fairy dust that turned him gay.


Oh, I thought the voice appeared to come from the audience, but I accept your explanation. It was OT though, so I won't post it again. I did notice those seated to his right were spared being dusted.
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Re: Rent

Postby NeonLX » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:57 pm

Luther Blissett » Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:12 am wrote:Universal Basic Income. I only brought it up since the concept is very closely tied to job automation and housing.


Oh. Gotcha. Thanks.

UBI, and access to health care.
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Re: Rent

Postby MacCruiskeen » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:47 am

Trevor Bastard 2000 ‏@OhMyDecades 2 hours ago.

Pre-Thatcher the average council housing rent was 7% of UK average income.



In the socialist world, rent was 3-4% of a family's income, capped at 5% in the USSR by Soviet law.
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