• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    It’s not even the prices that are the biggest problem. There simply just aren’t enough places in the area for people to live and to come close to their prior standard of living. There are thousands of displaced families.

    We went to see a place in Monrovia today and within the 10-15 minutes we were there at least 6 other families came to see the place. Then you talk to some of them and in my head I’m thinking “you need this more than I do.”

    Idk how landlords are gonna choose and it seems like A LOT of people are gonna have to move pretty far away.

    Either way, fuck these people and fuck anybody sitting on multiple properties and not trying to help.

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      My partner is fully moving out of her place and putting it on the market for a year or two, fully furnished. We were living there maybe 4 months out of the year. Honestly I hope she’s able to make some extra cash on it but it’s mostly to make some housing available. Maybe we’re the evil landlords now?

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        17 hours ago

        This is lemmy. Even if you’re a decent landlord who rents at a fair price, doesn’t raise the rent, and does a great job maintaining the property, you’re still a scumbag.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    Is this price gouging or is it the new, higher long-term price? Rebuilding will take years and so the housing shortage and therefore the higher prices seem like they will last.

    Whatever it is called, it does seem to be illegal at the moment.

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      23 hours ago

      People don’t get punished anymore bud, but that’s a nice thought.

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    20 hours ago

    Aren’t there a stupid number of homeless already in LA?

    Like hundreds of thousands?

    Seems to me to be more than enough could just organize and walk right into these empty residences