Rent is unaffordable for half of U.S. renters, 2022 data shows
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/27/rent-unaffordable-housing-market-apartment-prices-cost
@knittingknots2 Great indicator and proof that most people are irresponsible with their spending and tend to rent places outside of their means.
This isnt a graphic showing rent is too high, its a graphic showing people are irresponsibly spending their money by signing onto rent deals they cant afford.
@freemo @knittingknots2 My brother in Christ, it’s like this because the U.S. does not have enough homes for the number of people who live in it. The problem is particularly acute in the areas where most of the jobs are. A cursory examination indicates that it’s a supply and demand problem, not people being irresponsible with their money.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/homes/housing-shortage/index.html
No, In fact there are more houses currently open for rent then there are homeless people in the USA. So we know for a fact the issue isnt that there arent enough homes.
@freemo @knittingknots2 No there are not “more houses for rent than there are homeless people in the USA.”
There are a lot of housing units that are long abandoned and falling apart and/or in places like Bumfuck Alabama that nobody wants to live in they are not “for rent.”
Right we arent talking about the places that arent for rent that are abandoned. I'm talking about actual homes up to code, more than enough for rent to cover all homeless people several times over. It isnt a quantity issue.
@freemo @knittingknots2 Yeah I know you are talking about those. There aren’t enough of those. Like, they don’t exist. Especially not where the jobs are.
You have a weird idea that’s a combination of this stupid leftist myth and a stupid right-wing personal responsibility myth.
You have no clue what my idea of the problem actually is, you didnt ask. But it isnt qty, yes they exist.
Now saying "they arent where the jobs are" that at least gets closer to an aspect of the problem. But that also is in line with what I said, it isnt a quantity issue.
@freemo @knittingknots2 Yes it is. I live in an area where we have a rent crisis and this is the biggest factor contributing to it.
And you think, what, housing is a fungible commodity where it doesn’t matter where the housing is? Of course it matters where it is. Can’t pay the rent if you don’t have money, which almost always means a job.
No they arent. The convention ont he fedi is to keep people at the bottom and the first person tagged at the top indicates who you reply to.
Some servers (perhaps yours) will auto tag people, others dont do that, it depends on the software your on.
Even when it is automatically done the convention is often to leave it anyway as it gives an explicit indication as to who is directly being responded to, something you can do if you leave off the OP as the OP wont know when you are addressing them by moving their name back tot he top. So its a convention usually maintained regardless (though you dont have to).