Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago

“Since pre-pandemic, the income needed to afford rent has increased by 31.5%,” Zillow’s chief economist, Skylar Olsen, wrote yesterday.

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Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago

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public housing needs to double and the requirements to get on it need to be slashed.
- Slashed? No - removed. Then landlords can't make us pay their give mortgages while they retire on our labor.
- public housing is the thing people hate and fear the most.
- The people in charge are either landlords themselves or on the side of the landlords, so this is will never happen without a massive political paradigm shift.

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