The more I read about her christian fundamentalist talking in tongues crazy parents the more her story makes sense.

We, as a nation, should also admit that this continuing non-news might actually bring a lot of white and black people together on an issue rather than feeling divided. Overwhelming consensus: WTF

I dated that person. One lie in you’re like “seems reasonable, I guess, and why would they make this up?” Thirty lies in you’re just blaming yourself for even believing the first one. Maybe that’s why I’m so obsessed with this woman.

I feel sad for her. I think she’s having something of an identity crisis and as a result is identifying with the black members of her family rather than the (undoubtedly awful) white members.

Yeah, I’m sticking with Attention Whore.

I can’t look away from this train wreck. I’m going to read every. single. article. until I can wrap my brain around it. I think I need some charts and diagrams.

Can we for a second consider the twilight zone out come where we find out that they aren’t her biological parents and some crazy how she IS black. That is the only way this story could get and stranger. And part of me wants to see how that would go down. lol

This girl is fuuucked. I went from thinking she really believed she was black, to being liar, to now I just don’t even know. My mind cannot process this.

“Thank the exploiters—the ones who’ve kept their rent-stabilized units for years and then rent them out to other unwitting (or desperate) tenants for more than what they pay. Their “abuses” are just a handful of reasons why lawmakers don’t want to renew the law in a place where demand has outstripped supply since just…

FYI Rent controlled and rent stabilized are not interchangeable. Rent stabilized apartments are still relatively common in the outer boroughs and provide one of the only accessible means of affordable and stable housing for a lot of low and moderate income people. Rent controlled apartments are extremely rare because…

OP on this comment was talking about rent control. Rent control and rent stabilization are two separate things. Rent stabilization is much more common. It’s not surprising that an affordable housing apartment is rent stabilized to protect tenants from eviction and steep price increases.

Real question, why are the terms rent control and rent stabilization being used interchangeably in this article? They are not the same thing at all. One is crazy, the other helps protect people from leeching landlords.

EXACTLY.

While there are some clear rent control abuses, I’m one of many who probably paid a bit more at first to live in a rent stabilized building so that I wasn’t faced with absurd rent increases every year. Rent stabilization just limits the amount your landlord can increase your rent every year (and believe me, they…

yeah they’ll leave some nice dwellings behind that will be automatically bought by saudi princes to stand empty until the 3 days they are in nyc for business

IT’S THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD

That’s different from rent control. That’s developers cutting deals to be able to build larger luxury buildings by assigning a certain portion to “affordable” apartments for lower income individuals. They don’t have access to the buildings amenities usually, and a lot of times they have to enter through a separate…

To be fair, based on this article it seems like it wasn’t “New York City legislators” who had the power to save this law, but the New York State Legislature and the governor.

I would murder every single person on this website, commenters and bloggers alike, for a rent controlled apt in Manhattan.

Thank the exploiters—the ones who’ve kept their rent-stabilized units for years and then rent them out to other unwitting (or desperate) tenants for more than what they pay.