Can’t we have any TV shows about nonhorrible people? Like, just one, maybe?
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Considering that I literally, just ended a conversation with my best male friend where I lamented the difficulty in finding someone that I loved AND had a monster penis that I would be happy fucking for the rest of my days, this show speaks to me...
I live in this neighborhood and I can tell you all the current residents of this complex and the near by areas went to the City Council and begged for this not to happen. Our city is in ruins, no long time residents can afford to stay. They are erasing our community and our history. It is criminal when so many people…
It’s happening in Austin too. Oracle is building a new campus in an area that was mostly college apartments 30 years ago. Those deteriorated and for the last 15 years have been mostly low income in an unfavorable part of town. But now the entire area is seeing huge gentrification - rundown apartments turning into…
Yeah I rented from an actual person before I bought my house. As long as you gave him a heads up and a date when you could make rent he didn’t sweat it. He was an old man and when he passed he left one of his properties to a long time tenant. When I lost my job he let me take care of the yards do minor maintenance and…
“We have a tremendous housing shortage from years of poor planning, NIMBYs, and other factors.”
This is being framed as a supply/demand thing and it's bs. If the city wants more supply it needs to ignore rich nimbys and build all new market rate housing, not tear down something old. The rich are obstructing new developments everywhere so that you can only build where there was originally a building. What lunacy.
What I find most distressing about the story is the fact that there IS affordable housing legislation, already in place, for all of the tenants you are describing: Rent Stabilization.
I hate Greystar. They’ve been taking over a number of properties in Silicon Valley lately, and they are kind of shit to deal with from the housing advocate point of view. Also, I just kind of hate dealing with corporate housing providers. They care nothing for their tenants.
Sigh. I work at a partner organization to the Law Foundation, and we are going to see so many of these people come through our office because they can’t find housing they can afford. So many are disabled, seniors, families with children, racial/ethnic minorities. They are also going to go out into the market and face…
That’s ideally where we’re thinking of moving. I miss the East Coast so much and can’t deal with the so-called perks out here any longer.
Greystar bought my former complex in Sacramento, and promised to make everything shinier! Better! And then the next time to renew my lease came up, and it jumped from about $825 for a one bedroom to over $900, what with fees and pet rent. You better believe that eviction notices started going up all around that place,…
Old money is bad, new money is worse, but new money from tech/Silicon Valley is the ABSOLUTE worst because they're mostly all chauvinist, misogyinist socially inept nerds who never thought they would be anything in life, and then they make some app
Oh look, Greystar again. That company bought my locally owned apartment complex and proceeded to cut the staff, including most of the people of color, and jack the rent. Services have decreased considerably, and they’re buying up all sorts of other apartment complexes in my area so they’re becoming less escapable.
But no indication that the price will go down.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. San Jose Landlord Moto: “We Screw You Because We Can.” I worked there during the tech spike in the ‘90s, and rents were $1,500 - $2,000 for a crappy to average one-bedroom apartment even then. You’d think by now they’d come up with some way to work remotely, y’know,…
Nah, Silicon Valley investing tends to be a bit more libertarian-focused. It would be more like, “Part of our profits will be given to Greystar Real Estate to help build more housing to help bring housing costs down.”
At least we found the next cause that some Silicon Valley start up will attach to their Funding pitches in order to make everyone feel like they are giving back. ‘Part of our profits will be used to help families displaced by housing costs’.
I live in San Jose, and know exactly where that complex is (less than 2 miles from me). Apartments and housing is becoming insane here. We are in a rent controlled apartment and have been for 6 years, we couldn’t afford rent if we weren’t. Our rent goes up the max it can each year (8% I believe) and we honestly are…