• @Olhonestjim
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    47 hours ago

    Those landlords have necks. That’s a shame.

  • @Eddbopkins
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    713 hours ago

    who are these authorities that is allowing greedy fucken people to price gouge the needy.

  • @RagingRobot
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    621 day ago

    Authorities warn about it? Why don’t they do something to stop it?

    • Bakkoda
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      24 hours ago

      They “warn” so of you didn’t know to jack up the rent, now you do. Knowing is half the battle!

      GI JOE!!!

  • @venusaur
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    It’s not even the prices that are the biggest problem. There simply just aren’t enough places in the area for people to live and to come close to their prior standard of living. There are thousands of displaced families.

    We went to see a place in Monrovia today and within the 10-15 minutes we were there at least 6 other families came to see the place. Then you talk to some of them and in my head I’m thinking “you need this more than I do.”

    Idk how landlords are gonna choose and it seems like A LOT of people are gonna have to move pretty far away.

    Either way, fuck these people and fuck anybody sitting on multiple properties and not trying to help.

    • @Brkdncr
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      My partner is fully moving out of her place and putting it on the market for a year or two, fully furnished. We were living there maybe 4 months out of the year. Honestly I hope she’s able to make some extra cash on it but it’s mostly to make some housing available. Maybe we’re the evil landlords now?

      • fmstrat
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        26 hours ago

        IMO, a personal landlord is rarely evil unless they’ve made a job of it.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        417 hours ago

        This is lemmy. Even if you’re a decent landlord who rents at a fair price, doesn’t raise the rent, and does a great job maintaining the property, you’re still a scumbag.

      • @9tr6gyp3
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        322 hours ago

        There might be a good landlord out there somewhere, but I doubt they exist.

  • @jordanlund
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    361 day ago

    Saw this in c/latestagecalitalism:

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        What a lot of people do is sign the lease, take the biggest bedroom, then sublease the other two bedrooms for $5,000 each. Might not fly at $7,500 each.

  • @[email protected]
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    Is this price gouging or is it the new, higher long-term price? Rebuilding will take years and so the housing shortage and therefore the higher prices seem like they will last.

    Whatever it is called, it does seem to be illegal at the moment.

  • @[email protected]
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    -119 hours ago

    Aren’t there a stupid number of homeless already in LA?

    Like hundreds of thousands?

    Seems to me to be more than enough could just organize and walk right into these empty residences

      • @[email protected]
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        113 hours ago

        Ok. 75k is way smaller than I thought, but enough that if they organized somehow they could get a lot accomplished by sheer numbers. But I don’t exactly know where one would start.

    • Flying Squid
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      119 hours ago

      You can’t walk right into a residence with a lock on the door and good luck smashing and climbing through the window of a 12th story apartment.

      • Sneezycat
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        318 hours ago

        This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is…

        • Flying Squid
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          017 hours ago

          How do you guarantee you’re picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It’s really not that simple.