RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agoRents rose by 8% on average from 2022 to 2023, which was the highest annual average growth seen since 2000.www.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: news@hexbear.netusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkRents rose by 8% on average from 2022 to 2023, which was the highest annual average growth seen since 2000.www.cnn.comRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@hexbear.netusa@lemmy.ml
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 days ago Nearly half of all renter households spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs, qualifying them as “cost-burdened” I’m curious who the fuck the other half are. I don’t know anyone who rents who spends less than 30% of their income on housing.
minus-squaredustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 days agoall the people who are gifted housing by their rich relatives are fucking up the averages
minus-squaresomename [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 days agoRenting for 1 dollar
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 days agoWell, there are still some (few) tenants in the US that have some form of rent control. And there are others who have high income, obviously.
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days ago“more than 30%” is doing a lot of legwork here
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoYeah basically everyone I know spends between 40-60%
I’m curious who the fuck the other half are. I don’t know anyone who rents who spends less than 30% of their income on housing.
all the people who are gifted housing by their rich relatives are fucking up the averages
Renting for 1 dollar
Well, there are still some (few) tenants in the US that have some form of rent control.
And there are others who have high income, obviously.
“more than 30%” is doing a lot of legwork here
Yeah basically everyone I know spends between 40-60%