Comment on Who got that landlord money?

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Get rejected now for less than 3x.

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, that’s illegal. They’re pushing through legislation to scoop up the homeless and throw them in the camps, too.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      living on the street is illegal, dear. The trick is to slip in on the technicality!

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      • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Gotta make a retirement plan, yo. I’m gonna die of exposure in a hike when i’m too old to work.

        …assuming there’s still “the woods” by then.

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• chocrates@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the 2010's it was down to 3x. Are the kids being asked to pay more than half their income for rent?

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  • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    According to recent data from NYC (pretty expensive example but still) the rent-to-income ratio (median yearly rent / median yearly income) is ~55% citywide but up to 80% in the Bronx (which has the lowest income of the 5 boroughs)

    www.realtor.com/research/nyc-q2-2025-rent/

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    • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That 55% figure has been true of New York for decades. The ubiquity of public transit has historically offset the costs: since people aren’t making car payments, the portion of their income that would go to that gets spread across other spending.

      I would be more interested to see figures in more car-oriented areas for a better apples-to-apples.

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