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Marthe48

(21,932 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:43 AM 20 hrs ago

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If rent is jacked up to discourage iffy tenants

Why don't landlords reduce it after a credit check shows you are reliable?

Aside from so many people working multiple jobs to pay rent, the price to rent (or buy) is way too steep even for people with 2, 3 or more jobs.
The way things are, the working poor are disenfranchised by the naked greed of the system. And it's not getting better for anyone.

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If rent is jacked up to discourage iffy tenants (Original Post) Marthe48 20 hrs ago OP

Income inequality is at historically unsustainable levels. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz 20 hrs ago #1

Jimmy McMillan was right MichMan 20 hrs ago #2

Private equity firms are buying up single and multi-family housing Wicked Blue 19 hrs ago #3

I heard about the Berkeley Tenants Union (BTU) on Thom Hartmann. ariadne0614 19 hrs ago #4

Another thing to have insomnia about. rzemanfl 18 hrs ago #5

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,839 posts)

1. Income inequality is at historically unsustainable levels. . . .nt

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:45 AM

20 hrs ago

MichMan

(16,001 posts)

2. Jimmy McMillan was right

Reply to Marthe48 (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:53 AM

20 hrs ago

Wicked Blue

(8,261 posts)

3. Private equity firms are buying up single and multi-family housing

Reply to Marthe48 (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:27 AM

19 hrs ago

and jacking up the prices astronomically.

ariadne0614

(2,048 posts)

4. I heard about the Berkeley Tenants Union (BTU) on Thom Hartmann.

Reply to Marthe48 (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 11:10 AM

19 hrs ago

He was talking about the need for a Wagner Act for tenants, and a caller said it’s already happening in Berkeley.
ttps://www.berkeleytenants.org/

rzemanfl

(30,830 posts)

5. Another thing to have insomnia about.

Reply to Marthe48 (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 11:14 AM

18 hrs ago

Sigh.

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