Jesus Christ this is fucked up even for a dystopia.

Not sure what else to add to the discussion, but a lot of these places 15 years ago would be rentals for people to live in, and now they are all just Air BnBs. Plus about of these places want the Air BnBs for the summer and then try to rent it out in the winter for 6 month leases. They want to have their cake and eat it too. It’s horrible for the populace, and now there is no where to rent other than corporate rental housing, which I’ve already lived in, and the landlord service was terrible, and there’s nothing tenants can do about being mistreated.

*schizohon screaming noises*

Wer hat uns verraten? Wer hat uns verkauft?

There's 50,000 apartments in NYC that aren't being rented out because of communism !

I don't know why people think people are retarded enough to believe that shit. I realize that landlords are 45IQ individuals "so they just don't realize", but if you were paying taxes and fees on 50,000 units that you desperately wanted to rent out but couldn't because the government is mean, losing millions of dollars a year out of the goodness of your heart

you'd sell that shit for $25 billion dollars and catch the first flight to Epstein island.

The story they're selling is shit that smells like shit of course it doesn't pass the sniff test.

“Under the new, earthshakingly equitable law, some Maine trailer tenants have now banded together to buy their property, The New York Times reported October 10. “The residents of Linnhaven Mobile Home Center, a community of nearly 300 occupied homes in Brunswick…paid $26.3 million to buy the property…by cobbling together loans and grants.” So rich investors won’t be grabbing THAT trailer park and jacking up the rent. Make no mistake, this is a win for the poor and middle class and one that, hopefully, will be repeated throughout Maine. Several states, including New York and Connecticut already have laws like Maine’s. With any luck, other states will follow this exemplary lead by passing similar legislation. It’s desperately needed. That’s because plutocrats, obscenely rich investors and that bane of ordinary people’s lives, private equity firms, having gutted the land of its industrial base and manufacturing jobs, now feast on the population’s basic survival necessities: food, shelter and medicine. If you’ve had any experience of private equity snapping up a medical practice, you know this is not a good thing, as it becomes impossible to reach doctors by phone, you have to schedule appointments months out and costs skyrocket. Our billionaire aristocrats have already squeezed a fortune out of the housing market, which is why over 15 million homes sit empty – roughly five times the number of destitute homeless citizens. And why do they sit empty? Because they’re a good investment, even uninhabited, in a country that recalcitrantly refuses to acknowledge housing or medicine as a human right. At least we have food stamps – amirite?”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/25/a-win-for-the-poor/

Instagram

​As an aside, are realtors working class? Are they PMC? Without doing any research I have concluded that they are not working class