Redfin Report: America’s Renter Population Is Growing Three Times Faster Than Its Homeowner Population Amid Rise in Homebuying Costs
Los Angeles, San Diego and New York have the highest shares of renter households, while Worcester, MA, North Port, FL and Albany, NY have the lowest
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There are now over 15 million empty homes in the US, and 650,000 homeless per the very bias official numbers, or 23 houses per person
Murray Rothbard was a fascist fuck.
Every time this post comes around it’s funnier
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As the province's average rent price for a one-bedroom apartment continues to creep above a range many of us can reasonably afford on our own, landlords continue to search for alarming ways to appeal to prospective tenants who might be strapped for cash.
Adjust your filters on rental websites like Facebook Marketplace or Kijiji, and you're bound to come across at least a handful of listings that fully invade the tenant's privacy.
In just the past year, landlords have gone to great lengths to earn additional income, including stuffing mattresses at the tops of staircases, renting out beds smack dab in the middle of kitchens, and even packing room to the brim with shared bunk beds.
The latest disturbing listing to emerge out of Ontario's rental market is a shared room in Kitchener for $485 per month for one male, or $450 for a couple.
The listing boasts the home's proximity to transit connection points, but glosses over the fact that tenants will have to share beds within less than a foot of each other.
Tagging: @newsfromstolenland
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More than 115,000 Calgarians living in 40,000 households are at high risk of falling into homelessness, a new report published by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy suggests, and one of the study's authors says governments could tap into "relatively inexpensive" supports to help.
The report focuses on Calgarians who have just enough income to keep a roof over their heads, despite doing everything they can to minimize costs.
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Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM..
