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I think you are on the right path. I've seen the arguments that "minimum wage" should be able to afford a median priced 2BR apartment (30% of income). Then wh
by Vvector 2y ago
I think you are on the right path. I've seen the arguments that "minimum wage" should be able to afford a median priced 2BR apartment (30% of income). Then who rents the bottom third apartments? I'm all for a bottom tier safety net to keep people off the streets.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoWe've decided servicing slumlords' profit margins is now a societal goal?
- tomrod 2y agoOnly when we forget that affordable housing is also in those lower brackets.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoSo now, as a society, we've decided that slumlords are the key to affordable housing? I swear if the bar gets any lower someone's going to have to rent an excavator to dig the hole.
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- mlrtime 2y agoslum lords, as in government housing like NYCHA?
- forgetfreeman 2y agoClearly not, although there's an entire other conversation to be had about the state of play of government housing.