If rent is jacked up to discourage iffy tenants

[Marthe48]

Why don't landlords reduce it after a credit check shows you are reliable?

Aside from so many people working multiple jobs to pay rent, the price to rent (or buy) is way too steep even for people with 2, 3 or more jobs.
The way things are, the working poor are disenfranchised by the naked greed of the system. And it's not getting better for anyone.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Income inequality is at historically unsustainable levels. . . .nt

[MichMan]

2. Jimmy McMillan was right

[Wicked Blue]

3. Private equity firms are buying up single and multi-family housing

and jacking up the prices astronomically.

[ariadne0614]

4. I heard about the Berkeley Tenants Union (BTU) on Thom Hartmann.

He was talking about the need for a Wagner Act for tenants, and a caller said it’s already happening in Berkeley.
ttps://www.berkeleytenants.org/

[rzemanfl]

5. Another thing to have insomnia about.

Sigh.