• 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Remember when we used to joke about how politicians should wear their sponsors proudly like a racecar driver? Remember when that was just satire?

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Funny, this article (archive) about the rent prices dropping seems to have another take on the reason.

    The historic surge in multifamily construction over the past few years is now pulling back, but a good supply of new units is still coming online at a time of much weaker demand.

    So there is a glut of new rentals available due to historic levels of construction and…

    “That 18- to 34-year-old group … I think it’s up to 32.5% of those now are living with family, and that’s the highest it’s been in a while,” said Grant Montgomery, CoStar’s national director of multifamily analytics. “I think it reflects high rental costs that have risen over the years, as well as the tougher job market for young folks just coming out of college.”

    “That is where a lot of demand traditionally comes from, the core renter demand is from that sort of younger base,” he said.

    Younger workers can’t afford to move out of their parents home because they can’t find a job they pays enough to do so, or any job at all in many cases.

    Yeah, that makes more sense than Trump’s criminal efforts to kick anyone brown or black out of the country.

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      This fucking here.

      I’m about to accept an offer for 30% less than what I made before. Because the economy fucking sucks.

      I used to be able to save on top of my living expenses but I will, for first time since right after graduating, be living more or less paycheck to paycheck.

      It’s a fucking travesty.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
    1·
    5 months ago

    What even is that message? Ousting a few thousand people out of homes, where many of those homes remain occupied anyway, somehow causes rents to go down?

    That’s not how any of this works.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Uline sends out a lot of big thick catalogs to businesses, and they’re terrible about keeping an up to date mailing list. I get joy discarding them when they send them to vacant buildings (they’re 3rd class mail), and more joy when the few I do deliver go straight to the trash by the customers I deliver them to.

    At the Post Office we call them the Urines, because they piss everyone off.