Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.
  • Rentlar
    47•2 months ago

    More accurately, it’s an epidemic of corporate landlords not fixing stuff that needs to be.

    • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
      15•2 months ago

      While individual landlords can be terrible, a lot of them did actually own the buildings and care for basic maintenance at least.

      For corporate systems it’s usually just numbers on a spreadsheet.

  • rem26_art
    35•2 months ago

    Absolutely wild that this company took government money to help buy these apartments and have spent basically nothing on keeping them in livable condition. Whenever you see things like Private Equity taking over important things like housing or hospitals or whatever, its never good. They’re companies just looking at some kind of business intelligence dashboard thats telling them to buy this thing and never spend more than this much on it with absolutely no care as to what that thing is or who can be hurt by that mindset

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 months ago

      I prefer “utility room”.

      Edit: Well, at least for a private residence. I would say laundry room for a communal space dedicated to doing laundry.

    • Anarch157a
      3•2 months ago

      Brazilian here, we have laundry/utility rooms too. They’re usually next to the kitchen, to make plumbing easier.