Believe it or not in todays housing market people are still trying to get top dollar for rentals. I was looking for a night time job in the newspaper, but all I could find was a thousand listings of places for rent. I was amazed at how much everyone was asking. Some of them weren’t bad on rent. However the move in costs were outrageous. It became clear that no one I know would be able to move into a new house or apartment unless they won the lottery. I wonder if these landlords have been paying attention to the fact that people are poor. Let’s face it, we are not all board members of a government bailed out financial institution. Just for their information we are not all trust fund babies either. In this town in order to qualify for public housing you have to make no less than forty thousand dollars a year. The rest of us have to live in our car or in an illegal firetrap of a trailer for higher rent, or we have to live in the squaller of a rented room in someone else’s house. Then there are a few of us that sleep in whatever portapotty we can find on an unlocked construction site.
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on October 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am
In this town in order to qualify for public housing you have to make no less than forty thousand dollars a year.
I think you meant no MORE than…
Anyhay, I live with one of my hos in her subsidized house. She gets SSI and used to have 2 babies but we lost them.
Technically, cause I make way more than 40Grand, I’m not supposed to live there. But the “case-worker” comes by on the same day every month.
So, she just locks all the man-stuff in a bedroom and says the “babies are sleeping”.
on October 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Harsh… have you tried squatting?