It's too high everywhere. If you can live in a city in a decent place, you're usually working for the Pharaoh.
Re: Rent
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:45 pm
by Iamwhomiam
Ludicrous, Mac. Feudalism indeed.
Grizzly, I sure hope that doesn't wind up before the Supremes.
Bless McMillan's soul!
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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.
Re: Rent
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:08 pm
by 82_28
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:
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).
Re: Rent
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:30 pm
by 82_28
In costly Bay Area, even six-figure salaries are considered ‘low 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.
Re: Rent
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:17 pm
by JackRiddler
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.
Re: Rent
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:22 pm
by MinM
Re: Rent
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:05 am
by elfismiles
Yep ... gentriFUCKation.
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.
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 ... https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2016/05/u ... ng-austin/ 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 ... http://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/201 ... opulation/ 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, ...
Austin's Population Is Booming. Why Is Its African American ... - KUT http://kut.org/post/austins-population- ... -shrinking 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 http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/r ... JDCUvjLIL/ 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 ...
What Nobody Says About Austin - Texas Monthly http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/wh ... ut-austin/ When I moved to Austin in the fall of 2008 to teach at the University of Texas, I was ... As I came to learn, African Americans had been living throughout the city in ...
Why Are Black People Leaving Austin? - EBONY http://www.ebony.com/news-views/why-are ... austin-398 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 https://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/18 ... an-austin/ 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 ... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/us/a ... .html?_r=0 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 ... http://fusion.net/how-gentrification-an ... 1793857043 May 26, 2016 - The main reason for black residents leaving Austin, the survey found, was ... Researchers at the University of Texas' Institute for Policy Research and Analysis talked ... and places of worship located within the city of Austin," the report said. ... In an extensive series on this phenomenon, the Austin-American ...
We're Still Here: Assessing the continuing black Austin experience ... http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/201 ... till-here/ Jan 8, 2016 - The highly informative and much-discussed report by University of Texas assistant professor Eric Tang on blacks leaving Austin shows a ...
Re: Rent
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:40 am
by Luther Blissett
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.
Re: Rent
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:53 am
by NeonLX
Hey Luther, what is UBI? I'm getting strange results from the Google.
Re: Rent
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:12 pm
by Luther Blissett
Universal Basic Income. I only brought it up since the concept is very closely tied to job automation and housing.
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:57 pm
