RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoRents rose by 8% on average from 2022 to 2023, which was the highest annual average growth seen since 2000.www.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: news@hexbear.net
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkRents rose by 8% on average from 2022 to 2023, which was the highest annual average growth seen since 2000.www.cnn.comRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@hexbear.net
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 days ago Nearly half of all renter households spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs, qualifying them as “cost-burdened” I’m curious who the fuck the other half are. I don’t know anyone who rents who spends less than 30% of their income on housing.
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoWell, there are still some (few) tenants in the US that have some form of rent control. And there are others who have high income, obviously.
minus-squaredustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoall the people who are gifted housing by their rich relatives are fucking up the averages
minus-squaresomename [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoRenting for 1 dollar
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days ago“more than 30%” is doing a lot of legwork here
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoYeah basically everyone I know spends between 40-60%
I’m curious who the fuck the other half are. I don’t know anyone who rents who spends less than 30% of their income on housing.
Well, there are still some (few) tenants in the US that have some form of rent control.
And there are others who have high income, obviously.
all the people who are gifted housing by their rich relatives are fucking up the averages
Renting for 1 dollar
“more than 30%” is doing a lot of legwork here
Yeah basically everyone I know spends between 40-60%