amp.theguardian.com
Communism at its finest?
‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: the first US town to demand a rent decrease
In Kingston, New York, tenants say their survival depends on the city ordering a rent reduction – something that’s never been done before
trendsjournal.com
Hey the mayor hasn’t raised taxes in 7 years and I’m sure the reason that he has been able to do that is the fact that home prices are raising leasing to more tax collection.
The article said this but so what? If you can’t afford to live there then move. I’d love to live on a 30 acre private island so will that be provided to me? There’s no right to a house or housing and certainly not in the city of Kingston NY. I mean what am I supposed to do take less than my house is worth or take a lower rent? I have a right to make money.
Well there's the answer to why they want fixed rents... you know damn good and well what kind of people they are, and how society is privledged by their presence and how the Government has to take care of them while they do drugs and pseudo-Art.
Dear God, no.
He's doing the opposite.
People need to stop thinking that they have to live in cities. My daughter and her husband bought their first home a couple of years ago. In a small town, and needs updating, but they can afford it. And they are not what anyone would call wealthy.
People need to stop being told everything is their right.
Sheesh, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
If you're going to lose it anyway, might as well make it unprofitable for the State.
Unless the building was about to fall down, they also reduced the value of their property way more than the taxes would have cost.
Turn them into solar farms.
Not if your taxes cost more than you're allowed to charge for rent.
apparently they didn't care about that. They weren't selling the land.
Those don’t make any money around here either.
Sure they do.
It usually starts with the art crowd. My neighborhood in Bklyn, Williamsburg, was probably the first area to fall to these "hipster mutants" back in the late 70's into the 80's and 90's. The area close to the river was first. It was all industrial and the ease to get into lower Manhattan, one or two train stops, 10 or 15 mins and the very low rents at that time was the initial draw. I had a 3 bedroom apt that I paid 600 a month for at the time. These mutants started renting entire floors in the industrial buildings and illegally converting them to lofts, they were all well to do kids whose momma's supported them. The area's they started taking over were the most crime ridden drug prone area in the city. I had a friend who worked the burglary squad in the 90th and he used to come in my bar and tell us how these idiots would get burglarized 3 or 4 times a week, but somehow they persevered and somehow cleaned up the area. In the late 70's the city closed a firehouse and the mutants took it over as a protest and held it for months until the city gave in and reopened "The Peoples Firehouse". All the publicity from that event caused the flood gates to open and they came in droves. It also shed light on all the illegal lofts in the area, but since these kids all came from wealthy families they fought it in court and had the zoning changed. Property values and rents soared and I got the fuck out. It was good in one way but in my opinion they destroyed a solid blue collar working area and turned it into a fru-fru lovers heaven.The bar I worked in at the time, owned by my aunt and another good friend of ours was the last holdout in that area, when our lease was up the building owner had offers for the place 5x's what we were paying so we packed our bags and moved over to the Italian neighborhood on the other side of town.These mutants were super arrogant, the kind of arrogance that just makes you punch their lights out. This bar was a waterfront longshore workers hangout and they didnt take kindly to these mutants if you get my drift, but in the end, somehow they won.
