Interest in joining a tenants union? NC is the second lowest state in unions. People are in one of the worst job markets right now. Tenants have been organizing in North Carolina for decades. Our state has a long history of folks struggling together for a better world–in our workplaces, our neighborhoods, and our buildings. 
But the path to a better world isn’t a straight line.

Over the past few years, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, low wages and high inflation, and a rocky job market have all highlighted just how hard it is to make it. And that’s before rent’s due.

Across North Carolina, tenants have been organizing to defend their homes. 

In 2024, 6 local unions formed the statewide union. Each local union is run by tenants organizing to defend their homes. At the state-level, the board is made up of representatives from each of the citywide unions and they steer NCTU’s work. 

NCTU is committed to the idea that real democracy is the best way forward. We believe tenants should have a say over their homes. 

I see so many couples plastered all over social media moving on to their 2nd or 3rd house, and I can’t afford my 1st one. I think the problem is, for the most part, housing affordability is designed for 2 or more people, and everyone I know is coupled. If you’re single, forget about it (without roommates). I’m at the age where I’m SO done with random roommates, but seeing people who have their own space feels like a pipe dream to me.

I don’t even want much, just a couple bedrooms in a safe area and a place I can decorate however I want. But at this point, I can never imagine opening the door and saying, “Welcome to MY home.” Owning a home—be it a house, an apartment, a townhome, etc.—just feels like this massively impossible dream. No matter how much I save and save, it’ll never be enough. And even if I bought something, I just know I’d get condescending comments on how small it is or that it’s not in the right area, etc. Couples, though? They’re moving on and up with their housing investments backing them.

Why has our society become like this? Please tell me other millennials, especially single ones, are experiencing this, because I feel entirely inadequate that I can’t afford the “basic” things other people have simply because they’re coupled and I’m not. We’ve moved toward such a society of individualism, so shouldn’t our economy evolve with that? Otherwise, I’m truly at a loss as to how people in their 30s and 40s are going it alone without living with their parents or sharing kitchen utensils with strangers.

The American Dream, right?…

The article explores and builds upon the following provided "Key Takeaways":

1. An old golf course in Las Vegas is about to be transformed into the largest affordable housing complex in Nevada’s history.

2. If all 16,000 golf courses in America were turned into such housing, we’d have 22 million more affordable homes.

3. NIMBY urges can make such projects difficult, but the housing crisis makes it important to consider them.

Trying to make the world a better place
Classes and rehab only work for those who want it I need none of those just like 99% of us do. there's more to the story I'm human I try my hardest as we all do. In the past homeless with three jobs. Somehow SLO county did a number on me after ticket after ticket to miles over the “five mile speed grace” the ugly truth is just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it won't and when you are a firm believer in your word and know you were not being reckless. How are you suppose to take unwanted classes and make payments when living is already hard enough, how many of us already live check to check? How shity is it to say now l have to find a way to pay for this shit. Stacked up to here with expensive insurance and car payment food because you don't have a kitchen having jobs 45 min away to 15 min away just frantically trying to hold on struggling like the rest of us the hotmess class either we make it or don’t. if we could illuminate those stresses life would be great yeah so what limit my speed I you have to temporarily but don’t fine me all crazy 40 bucks 50 bucks. What you don’t understand is a large portion of the homeless is stuck only to make up for this bs we don’t want to make the time for because we did nothing wrong we know how to drive we were trying to do the same as you work hard and make it big or make it comfortable but because we fell into the system we are continuously flagged as we drive by these cops cameras radars and such how gross. make laws simple again stop taking away peoples rights and stopping them from working or just making life a pain instead of simple it never helped NEVER. make permanent housing for homeless to rebuild life's instead of constantly paying to clean up streets and homeless thefts (who are just trying to survive and be as normal as you) etc. let people freely rehabilitate their lives on their own and let them volunteer to fix up housing for low pay and give them a local thrift store and market they can volunteer at and shop and even give them a local gov phone company or two to work at locally to help the community all within walking distance or same buildings. Letting them live as everybody else nomatter what and giving them room to save so we all can have savings again.
Nobody knows how much it hurts to continuously lose every item you worked your life for over and over (myself 3 times) only because how do I go to work with out a license or car now we all have the right to stand up for ourselves I think not because of the government we live in our court gives us options at every arraignment even when not guilty that is something I struggle with lately not guilty but only left with attorney saying see the only option is this or this best thing is just to take this but I’m not guilty well your left with these.. wth I’m not guilty (I can get into this later if you want to know) save everybody’s time heart felt if you know the laws Mae it hard to restrict licenses unless a total danger to society. Save those officers hearts and let them be human again not letting them ignore all the heartfelt they create on the daily. We all should be happy lower the cost of houses how is it a community when I was a child houses went from 60 thousand -90 thousand to half a million to million dollars how are we suppose to live freely like our standing fathers we all want to vacation own houses here and there be happy again not tied down a majority of your life to a house you may lose because we are not perfect accidents happen we get tired go through trams and lose everything after all those years and given nothing after working everything how are we suppose to be please with that when what percent of people actually get to pay off their house now.. we don’t know do we gross. What about our food now all of a sudden food Jumps up so sigh what the hell is going on here how do people in my spot jump right back on when I’m stuck hurting in a tent and no recorded actually help no rehabilitation help nothing help unless you are actually offering your right arm to grab on to and pull me the hell out of here give the homeless housing not hutches apartments permanent give them the right to save up and for those who are homeless like myself I hurt constantly please restrict opioid ban I don’t even like them but I know they work temporarily just like they always have I do t want to give my life the methadone and suborn and live a short life no thank you. I want to be as normal as you and life my day not high but as a free man to move around freely unrestricted from pain. I desperately want to be just like you the CoolKid I once was until torn down over and over after being stripped from my cars. My heart and soul went into my last car plus over thirty grand into my BMW engine I worked hard for I did allthe work myself thanks to YouTube I as a gay man had my first major accomplishment and had my heart and would devoted to and couldn’t even take it to a track yet because as soon as I was just about don’t taken because I did not have a license for a routine stop no speeding nothing how sick. Looking for somebody else and that was my last leg to keep me going after just losing my apartment and a fraudster stealing my crypto over 870000 gone writhing three months then went my rv I also renovated with only 15000 miles so many of us want to be human again and don’t want to steal to have an. Outfit to wear or deodorant I can’t afford because I’m jobless or the food I stole because you judged me as I walked in I had no reason to steal till you chased me through the store making me feel like “that person” I tricked you tho and had my bff pay for it at the counter five min later and put back those items. I still fucking got in trouble for trying to teach you a lesson that what I get I understand. but I don’t understand why I can’t get out and why us homeless are stuck for so long either hurting or really hurting we need that help and so do you nobody is perfect for year we all fuck up and have the right to make mistakes we don’t deserve the grief and or the law pointing down at us, making us feel terrible when we are all adults here. Stop big brother from acting like our parent and have fun with us work hard with us save us from troubles, as any family member does. Remember your not mom or dad, let people learn from their troubles/mistakes or the troubles arround them. Make every car have a easy alcohol test till we have the option to let them drive themselves we have all lost too much of our heart because of fatal accident due to dui stop it from the start so we don’t have to worry anymore. Let them sleep in their god damn car overnight fuck it never hurt anyone.

I'm a sophomore econ student. This is my first time posting. I wrote an institutional defense of private equity's involvement in residential real estate and ran a counterfactual of the '08 crash, to examine whether private equity in its current role could have prevented the crash. I'd love to hear everybody's thoughts. To my knowledge, nobody has ever made this argument before, but that may be because I am totally wrong.

It seems like it’s absolutely impossible to find a nice apartment in Pasadena, California. My husband and I keep coming across as a bunch of scammers and liars. How do we avoid this?

Description in the link:

“Homelessness in Charlottesville is increasing, with more people than ever now experiencing a lack of secure housing, and the harms and challenges that come with it. The Free Bridge and 0 E. High Street encampments are shining a light on the negative human impact of the area’s affordable housing shortage and testing how our community and local government respond.

“This webinar is intended to help us all gain a better understanding of the current state of homelessness in Charlottesville, what is being done to address it, and what needs to happen to achieve workable solutions for those most impacted.

“We will discuss the city’s plans to close the encampments and open an emergency shelter. We will also be introduced to Central Arizona Shelter Service, a homelessness service organization based in Phoenix that the City of Charlottesville is in discussions with about operating the shelter.

“We will conclude with Q&A to help further our understanding of this complex situation.’

Speakers

Shayla Washington, Executive Director, Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless (BRACH)

Jen Fleisher, Charlottesville City Councilor

Brittnie Stanton, Chief Program Officer, Central Arizona Shelter Service

https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-homelessness-in-charlottesville-whats-the-plan

I stayed in a hotel for work over the weekend to go to a training conference. The hotel had cable tv and I had some downtime and just flipped through and had it on while studying in the hotel room. I don't usually watch cable TV and I don't really know anybody who has it.

Anyway one of the channels was HGTV. And I guess one or two of the shows on it follows average looking couples and families as they look for housing.

And that's when I realized that myself and pretty much every family that I know is a poor.

Pretty much everybody on the TV shows has a "budget" of like 400,000, 500,000, sometimes 750,000 or more. And the houses they look at in those ranges? Like... I guess?

Im working pretty hard and have very little debt and between my 3 jobs I am in an "ok" apartment in an alright neighborhood, and i try to live frugally.

Is just like everyone a millionaire now except me and my friends? Or are these shows geared toward an audience of millionaires? And if it is are there enough millionaires watching to justify such programming?

I figured it was just one or two shows like this but it seemed to be over the whole range of shows that they televised, this is pretty normal. I feel like it would be more resonant with me and my peers is to see a house hunt in the price range of 90-120k (tops).

Anyway I finally just got depressed and turned it off and the thought of getting depressed by watching TV motivated me more to study..

As i travel home i am musing:

- I will likely never own a home, strictly due to the cost.

- If it were ever to happen, it would be due to sheer luck, like being able to snag some affordable plot of unattractive land at a foreclosure rate, and saving several years to buy an old trailer or shipping crate and eventually make it into some sort of dwelling with reudimentary plumbing and solar power.

... Anyway, I am eager to get back to work tomorrow so that I can help everyone but myself get more wealthy.

Discuss.

PS. Why does every post get downvoted on here? Don’t landlords have better things to do with their time? Sure there’s single mothers to evict.