I sent another letter to the editor

VintageBetter said:
Greed really should be stated somewhere in the New Constitution, if they ever hold a convention and update it. We all know American Greed heavily influences the system - may as well say it out loud, in print, like alcoholics admitting they are addicted to something.

The U.S. gives lots of money away to other nations. What they want to do in Gaza to feed the people is admirable, it really is. But it's like our leaders can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't give overseas while also solving very real problems at home.

Writing a check to foreign governments it so easy - very easy. The logistics of housing everyone HERE is too complex, I guess. Even Harvard and Yale graduates employed in government roles apparently cannot figure it out. Right? IDK. Is anyone in the Federal government actually working on this goal?
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Again the exact same thing happens here. This government and past governments crosses the palms with silver in the billions, of all other countries ... at the detriment of many parts of the UK ..it was said this week that one by one County councils, and local authorities are declaring bankruptcies here...
One by one, England’s councils are going bankrupt – and nobody in Westminster wants to talk about it | John Harris
 

VintageBetter said:
Greed really should be stated somewhere in the New Constitution, if they ever hold a convention and update it. We all know American Greed heavily influences the system - may as well say it out loud, in print, like alcoholics admitting they are addicted to something.

The U.S. gives lots of money away to other nations. What they want to do in Gaza to feed the people is admirable, it really is. But it's like our leaders can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't give overseas while also solving very real problems at home.

Writing a check to foreign governments it so easy - very easy. The logistics of housing everyone HERE is too complex, I guess. Even Harvard and Yale graduates employed in government roles apparently cannot figure it out. Right? IDK. Is anyone in the Federal government actually working on this goal?
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What do you mean by "the New Constitution"? Our government doesn't care now that people are struggling and it isn't going to get any better. They're too busy figuring out how to stuff their own back pockets. It isn't that they don't know how to solve problems here at home....they don't want to.
 
Seems a lot of folks here in the USA have not studied our history and Constitution.

In a free country people can charge what they want for what they own. That is how free markets work. If 'governments' step in to control things...then you end up with a Socialist society. You cannot have 'selective' freedom or socialism. Our government already controls way too much and every day we give up more to them. We are slowly morphing into a Socialist country.

The free market works best! If you do not like the cost of a rental home, find one you like, don't ask the government to protect you. It is a very slippery slope....
 

VintageBetter said:
Greed really should be stated somewhere in the New Constitution, if they ever hold a convention and update it. We all know American Greed heavily influences the system - may as well say it out loud, in print, like alcoholics admitting they are addicted to something.

The U.S. gives lots of money away to other nations. What they want to do in Gaza to feed the people is admirable, it really is. But it's like our leaders can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't give overseas while also solving very real problems at home.

Writing a check to foreign governments it so easy - very easy. The logistics of housing everyone HERE is too complex, I guess. Even Harvard and Yale graduates employed in government roles apparently cannot figure it out. Right? IDK. Is anyone in the Federal government actually working on this goal?
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Greed is a moral issue, not a constitutional one. You can't legislate morality, or none of our government could pass the "sniff test"
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Seems a lot of folks here in the USA have not studied our history and Constitution.

In a free country people can charge what they want for what they own. That is how free markets work. If 'governments' step in to control things...then you end up with a Socialist society. You cannot have 'selective' freedom or socialism. Our government already controls way too much and every day we give up more to them. We are slowly morphing into a Socialist country.

The free market works best! If you do not like the cost of a rental home, find one you like, don't ask the government to protect you. It is a very slippery slope....
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Free market is BS. People need to be properly protected otherwise you are giving a green light to landlords like the UK's notorious Rachman
Peter Rachman - Wikipedia
 
Pepper said:
They share illegal housing and apartments as well, causing dangerous conditions for unsuspecting neighbors. These carved out apartments, chopped up to stuff tens of people in tiny spaces, some with no egress. They figure it's better than where they came from, I guess. Unscrupulous building owners are the culprits charging hundreds of dollars a month for a mattress on the floor, if you're lucky. Fire traps, especially since all the migrants seem to have ebikes which are carelessly charged. We've had many such fires from this, people have died. Poor people. No one in my co-op is charging ebikes.
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I have lived in the midwestern part of the USA my whole life (Utah, Colo., MO, KS, etc.) Throughout these areas are hundreds of small buildings and homes many available for rent at very low cost. Many areas also have jobs on farms and ranches, gas stations, etc. that pay enough for one to live in the small towns. Yet they cannot find people to work or rent.

I have always wondered why these people in towns don't leave the big cities and head to open areas in the USA? For the cost of a bus ticket, they could find a whole new way of life.
 
VintageBetter said:
Greed really should be stated somewhere in the New Constitution, if they ever hold a convention and update it. We all know American Greed heavily influences the system - may as well say it out loud, in print, like alcoholics admitting they are addicted to something.

The U.S. gives lots of money away to other nations. What they want to do in Gaza to feed the people is admirable, it really is. But it's like our leaders can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't give overseas while also solving very real problems at home.

Writing a check to foreign governments it so easy - very easy. The logistics of housing everyone HERE is too complex, I guess. Even Harvard and Yale graduates employed in government roles apparently cannot figure it out. Right? IDK. Is anyone in the Federal government actually working on this goal?
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Granny...last I checked the American people elected our leaders. Perhaps we need to look in our mirrors to see who is messing things up...
 
Paco Dennis said:
Have you considered looking into a shared, bigger house? So you could split up the price a bit? On look for private landlords on Facebook, or Gumtree.com?
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My thoughts exactly. Is a two bedroom twice the price of a one bedroom? Have you considered renting a room in a regular house? I have two renters and although they rent a room they have use of pretty much the whole house.
 
In the Guardian today...



Some homeless children are now spending their entire childhoods in supposedly “temporary accommodation”, while thousands of families have been housed in it for more than a decade, according to alarming new evidence of a homelessness crisis “spiralling out of control”.

One homeless household in London placed in temporary accommodation in 2000 is still there today, according to new research seen by the Observer. Among about 50 local authorities known to have high numbers in temporary accommodation, almost 14,000 households have been in it for more than five years.

The findings have led to warnings that describing such housing as temporary has become, in effect, meaningless.

The revelations come after a budget in which the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, was accused of opting for pre-election tax cuts over relieving the pressures that have led to record levels of homelessness, and failing to ease the local government crisis that is stifling councils’ ability to help those without a home.

There are now demands for a change in the law to ensure that there is a maximum length of time families can be in temporary accommodation.
Some households in the London boroughs of Westminster, Ealing, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Barnet, Haringey and Kensington and Chelsea have been in temporary accommodation for longer than two decades, according to data released under the Freedom of Information Act.

More than one in five of those in temporary accommodation in London have been in it for at least five years - a sign of the growing housing crisis in the capital as the cost of private rented accommodation continues to rise. The problem also extends to areas outside London.


A family in Dartford, Kent, had been in temporary accommodation since 2009, while some in Birmingham had been there since at least 2011.
Revealed: homeless children spending entire lives in temporary housing in England
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Seems a lot of folks here in the USA have not studied our history and Constitution.

In a free country people can charge what they want for what they own. That is how free markets work. If 'governments' step in to control things...then you end up with a Socialist society. You cannot have 'selective' freedom or socialism. Our government already controls way too much and every day we give up more to them. We are slowly morphing into a Socialist country.

The free market works best! If you do not like the cost of a rental home, find one you like, don't ask the government to protect you. It is a very slippery slope....
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The free market is seeing millions of people becoming homeless because of greed.
Landlords already have a home and invest in a second home to make a profit from the poor renters.
 
If you were a landlord, in 2024, would you be thrilled to collect the same $30/month rent you did in the 1950s? A brand new Ford goes for $30,000, not the $600 people paid in the 1920s. Inflation is going cause everything to cost more dollars. I don't understand inflation, but it exists. I hate to be on the side of greedy landlords, but why should they provide shelter if someone can't afford it? You don't walk into a Ford dealership with $600, and then claim they are greedy, because the won't sell you new Ford for $600.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
If you were a landlord, in 2024, would you be thrilled to collect the same $30/month rent you did in the 1950s? A brand new Ford goes for $30,000, not the $600 people paid in the 1920s. Inflation is going cause everything to cost more dollars. I don't understand inflation, but it exists. I hate to be on the side of greedy landlords, but why should they provide shelter if someone can't afford it? You don't walk into a Ford dealership with $600, and then claim they are greedy, because the won't sell you new Ford for $600.
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Many landlords are raising rents, gouging the renters simply because they want to cash in on the lack of housing. To me that is pure greed.
 
Bretrick said:
Another reason for higher prices is Real Estate agents advising landlords to raise their rental prices to make a larger profit year after year.
Not forgetting that the higher the rental, the more the real estate agent creams off the top.
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to be fair this isnt neccesarily so.
People might move away for work and rent out their house in the meantime.
They have to cover the mortgage, pay rates,insurance , maitenance etc and their own rent wherever they moved to.
 
Understanding stuff, well, when I was 30 or so Concrete delivered was less than $9 a yard. So, an average order cost about $50-$80 Ish. Now a load of Cement costs Ding Ding $1000 + Summer of 2016 it was Ding Ding under $400.


The times we are in are about where the Great depression Smacked due to holly hell cutting loose on folk. The Federal Reserve horse collars it but the Costs keep on raising over the next 20 years most certainly.

I rented an apartment for a few months when I sold my home and was closing on a home in a different warmer state. 2008. $375 + power and lights. $35.... $1500 won't touch it now. That was in an average group of Cities and Towns all gathered together into a Metro area. Taxes were going out of site on my home that I finished selling.

A much lower taxed home to me as I wound out to retirement seemed a wise move to that warmer State. And I drove to it and enjoyed it on weekends and vacations until I retired and once more moved again.

I just speak of my experience and have little help for a Citizen of a different Country and a predicament a brewing!
That being said, I had a HVAC unit installed in it in 2016 and the labor was $160 x2 an hour for 2 AC guys.

Sometimes I think the Homeless are just squatting and waiting for the opportunity to take over a deserted home ?
 
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Thankfully here in BC we have laws to prevent that sort of greed. The problem is people here do not learn what the law says. Then so many pass up on getting double the deposit back because it is "too much trouble" to make a phone call at a given time.
 
Something the BC government is trying is to end B&Bs in tourist areas where the regular rental availability is very low. One of the main industries in BC is tourism. In peak season, hotels are full. A place we stay in has hiked their rate way up. Many areas can’t keep up with tourist demand as it is. It will be interesting to see if people want to rent their homes out long term vs short term.
 

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