Hannibal Burress doesnt support rent control and is a landlord and cacs are turning on him

[Matriarchy Refugee]

The whole point of public housing was to temporarily house people till they got back on their feet.

instead you have a bunch of families who don’t want to step up because they know they won’t qualify for their cheap housing.

This causes a super long wait list that can be for years for other poor families who need the opportunity.


Tenants who live in rent stabilized apartments often times have the nerve to grandfather their apartments to their kids which causes a scarcity of affordable housing for families who AGAIN need the apartments.

lots of irony here. People cry for affordable housing because they want to save money and buy a home but the reality is a lot of people get cozy and prefer to game the system instead.


I guess the correct term here is selfishness

You do understand that there are people who rent that aren't on welfare right?



Why should they be subjected to constant rent increases, just because slumlords like you resent "welfare queens"?

 

[HellRell804]

Most them bytches got kids. They getting $7,000....$8,000 back a year for taxes. What they doing with it? NOTHING. You can get a rowhouse in Philly for $40,000. They have programs where you can pay maybe $5,000, $6,000 as a down payment. Save a couple years + use that tax money. Boom. Now you got a mortgage that’s way less than the rent. It may not be the Taj Mahal but you way better off than renting. My uncle got 7 houses in the Philly area. He wasn’t rich. People just got excuses.

It's a shame so many of us have swallowed all of the propaganda and believe all lower income black people are hopeless victims with no agency in their lives.

If these nikkas would get off the internet and interact with actual poor black people, the amount of money being wasted on weed, alcohol, lottery tickets, iphones, fast food, rental cars, and designer clothes would stagger them.

These nikkas understanding of poverty comes from those old black movies and shows where the mom has a heart of gold and works 2 jobs and still can't make ends meet. Usually with an evil landlord

In reality, people are out here working 28 hours or less on purpose so they don't mess up their benefits and are spending more on recreation than a lot of middle class households.

And I don't knock anyone, you do what you want with YOUR money. But you can't play the victim forever. It just doesn't work like that.

 

[Floyd Pinkerton]

People defending greed.....typical TLRepublicans.

Study the French Revolution. Then get back to me.

Who's our generation's Robespierre breh

 

[bnew]

Jealous ass people hating till they also get on that ladder.



I have two properties I own. Me and my ex both worked hard for them and the rent we charge is fair.

your fair rent is not the norm. people get rent increases of $250+ still earn the same income since they moved in while just getting by. most people wouldn't even be complaining about rent pricing if wages were higher across the board.

 

[bnew]

Yea, how dare people not want to pack up all their stuff, find a new school for their kids, and drive an extra 30 minutes to work, pay more in gas, put more miles on the engine and tires and move somewhere else....

Only have to do it all over again when their new landlord raises the rent.

How dare the ungrateful peasants have a problem with that

Moving Day (New York City) - Wikipedia

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Moving Day was a tradition in New York City dating back to colonial times and lasting until after World War II. On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would be after the end of the quarter,[1] the tenants would spend good-weather days in the early spring searching for new houses and the best deals[2] and on the first of May[3] all leases in the city expired simultaneously at 9:00 am, causing thousands of people to change their residences, all at the same time

The chaos of Moving Day in New York City in 1856

Moving Day in 1859, from Harper's Weekly

 

[AndroidHero]

You can only raise rents if people are willing to pay the increase

I know TLR is full of idiots, but I still surprising to see this level of dumb.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You do understand that there are people who rent that aren't on welfare right?



Why should they be subjected to constant rent increases, just because slumlords like you resent "welfare queens"?

Who said anything about welfare?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Moving Day (New York City) - Wikipedia

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The chaos of Moving Day in New York City in 1856

Moving Day in 1859, from Harper's Weekly

I think something like this Currently happens in Montreal Canada today

 

[bnew]

I think something like this Currently happens in Montreal Canada today

Moving Day (Quebec) - Wikipedia

Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once?


Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once?

1 July is Canada Day. But in Quebec, which has twice had referendums on independence, it’s when tenancies traditionally end – leading to mayhem on the streets

Mireille Silcoff in Montreal

Fri 29 Jun 2018 02.15 EDT Last modified on Thu 12 Jul 2018 11.53 EDT




Bicycle movers Gabriel Laporte, front, and Dominique Thibaut cycle through Montreal. About 10% of the city’s 1.6 million people are said to move house in any given year – largely on Moving Day. Photograph: Ryan Remiorz/AP
Montreal has a valiant knack for inconvenience. The winters are brutal, and when summer finally comes, one can safely bet that any well-attended park, shopping street or highway will become clogged with construction, as every builder in the province takes two weeks off at exactly the same time in July. The Quebecois love doing things all together, en famille – and in that spirit there is Moving Day: 1 July, when the majority of residential leases both begin and end.

To call Moving Day mayhem is to prettify the truth of trucks double-parked three deep on narrow two-way streets, amateurs humping fridges up the city’s legendarily winding outdoor staircases (partly because nobody can get a professional mover – they’re all quadruple-booked), and creative Quebeckers devising all sorts of methods for relocating their stuff. On Moving Day, you will see bicycles pulling gigantic, self-made wagons, and compact cars with so much furniture bungee-corded to the roofs that homemade bumpers made of pool noodles must be employed.





Jim Hendry carries a bed base up a set of stairs. Moving Day is no longer law, but remains as a rather problematic tradition. Photograph: Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock
The mess of Montreal’s Moving Day is enhanced by the fact that it is not primarily a city of homeowners, but one of relatively cheap rents. Close to 63% of the city’s 1.6 million people rent their homes, and about 10% of the population are said to be moving house in any given year, or about 160,000 people. It is estimated that 130,000 of these will do so on Moving Day, according to the Montreal Gazette.

In New York a couple might stay together for the apartment. In Montreal you have the opposite syndrome

Prasun Lala
Prasun Lala, a technology researcher at McGill University and the École de Technologie Supérieure, argues that Montreal’s well-stocked rental market is to blame for the puzzling persistence of Moving Day.

“A landlord is always looking for a year lease,” Lala says. “So if everyone is always moving at the same time, landlords have a better market and the chances of having months where an apartment is empty are less. If you find a place on an off month – say, January – most Montreal landlords will make you sign a lease that takes you to July, and then sign another one, beginning on 1 July.”

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Like so many aspects of Quebecois culture, including well-loved songs, recipes and turns of phrase long forgotten in France, Moving Day has its roots in the province’s colonial past. In 17th- and 18th-century Quebec, there was a fixed date – 1 May – for many legal agreements. It took until the 1970s for the Quebec government to abolish this law for housing leases, and then it moved all existing leases to 1 July because too many kids were being pulled out of school to help their parents move. Since 1973, then, Moving Day has not been law, but rather tradition – a problematic idea that refuses to peter out.



Belongings on the sidewalk on Moving Day, which takes place as Canadians outside of Quebec celebrate Canada Day. Some people think this is no coincidence. Photograph: Alamy
It is compounded by the fact that many Montrealers move frequently – even yearly. “If you compare Montreal to a city like New York, where decent living space is such a commodity that a couple might stay together for the sake of the apartment they share, in Montreal, you have the opposite syndrome,” says Lala. “People are breaking up over and over again, because they found something more enticing down the block.”

Kristian Gravenor, a local journalist, historian and author of Montreal: 375 Tales of Eating, Drinking, Living and Loving, says Moving Day has a political dimension as well: “It’s impossible not to realise that 1 July is also Canada Day.”

It’s impossible not to realise that 1 July is also Canada Day. It's punching [English] Canada in the eye

Kristian Gravenor
In the rest of Canada, 1 July is popularly known as Canada’s birthday: a federal statutory holiday, formerly named Dominion Day, replete with fireworks, parades, street parties and a scary percentage of Canadians wearing red maple leaf-branded baseball caps with built-in beer can holders and umbilical drinking straws.

Gravenor says making Quebec’s Moving Day happen on Canada Day is nothing short of the francophone province – which has held referendums on separating from the rest of Canada not once, but twice – “punching [English] Canada in the eye”.

“Especially,” he adds, “when you also consider that Quebec has really intensely enshrined its own national holiday – La Fête Nationale, 24 June – only about a week before Canada Day.”



Derek Colley, of removals firm Demenagement Myette, moves a load by bike. Professional movers in Montreal are nearly impossible to book at this time of year. Photograph: Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock
But even with all Moving Day’s inconveniences, it’s easy to find Quebeckers who say they wouldn’t change a thing about it. “There is a very popular concept in Quebec,” says Gravenor, “described by this word s’entraider, something like neighbours helping neighbours out. People here take pride in it.”

Lala says he has helped friends on Moving Day at least a dozen times, “because they’ve all helped me more than a dozen times”. He agrees that Moving Day is a community-building activity, like barn raising. “Its feeling is of everyone being in something together.”

He tells a story about trying to parallel-park his moving truck on Moving Day a few years ago. “The street was crazy with people and trucks, and I badly rear-ended my new neighbour’s car. Within an hour, her boyfriend was parking the truck for me. It makes me think of how, in Montreal, in the winter, if you see someone’s car stuck in the snow, you just go and help push them out. There’s no thinking, you just do it. This was the same. It was like, ‘It’s Moving Day. Disasters are to be expected.’”

 

[OfTheCross]

This makes absolutely no sense

Look into it

 

[bnew]

A possible solution would be for the government to subsidize the rents of those that can't afford it. They should commit to pay the property owner the difference of what the median property price for a similar property in the area is. Why should the hard-working landlord be punished for factors within the economy?

nah, look what colleges did with financial aid. tuitions skyrocketed because institutions got greedy, took a good thing and abused the shyt out of it.

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

Who said anything about welfare?

What the hell you think section 8 and public housing is?

 

[Rockstar Mom]

Pretty sure rent control was created because cities NEED poor people to function. Talking about “get a better job, move somewhere else”. Ok, but then who’s going to work at your local Starbucks, clothing store, Walgreens, grocery store, restaurant, laundry mat, car wash, bank teller, teach your kids(because we know teachers are underpaid), clean the gym, the list can go on and on......

Yea, these low income workers who basically help keep society running, should be able to secure affordable housing, and fair rent.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

What the hell you think section 8 and public housing is?

I also spoke about rent stabilization.

you do not need no section 8 or welfare to get that




Public housing projects are also income based. You can have a full functioning job and still live in them.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Pretty sure rent control was created because cities NEED poor people to function. Talking about “get a better job, move somewhere else”. Ok, but then who’s going to work at your local Starbucks, clothing store, Walgreens, grocery store, restaurant, laundry mat, car wash, bank teller, teach your kids(because we know teachers are underpaid), clean the gym, the list can go on and on......

Yea, these low income workers who basically help keep society running, should be able to secure affordable housing, and fair rent.

But it didn’t work out like that and here you are today with many poor and working class people homeless despite these apartments still existing.

These types of housing attract a lot of selfish folks.

the point of affordable housing or any type of assistance was temporary so you as a human could step your game up financially.