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Don't rents simply reflect supply and demand? It seems unlikely that they would rise beyond the "breaking point" for _everyone_ or even most people. Also, when
by Bromskloss 9y ago
Don't rents simply reflect supply and demand? It seems unlikely that they would rise beyond the "breaking point" for _everyone_ or even most people.
Also, whenever someone is homeless, that's someone for whom the rents are above the breaking point.
- poorrights 9y agoJust because enough people can pay $2,500 per month for a studio doesn’t mean the people who can’t deserve to be homeless.
- Bromskloss 9y agoI say nothing about who deserves it. I'm talking about the headline, which makes it sound like rents being past people's breaking point (0) is something that could happen to the population at large, and (1) hasn't always been the case for some.
- poorrights 9y agoAnd no, it isn’t just “simply supply and demand”. This has to be the most ad absurdum reductio I’ve ever read in my life.