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beezneez  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive

I'm expecting my rent to increase ~50% this January and I feel completely cannibalized. Cannibalized by some meager fuck of a landlord who just collects, collects, collects because I'm their investment. It is my work and toil that they have purchased and apartments are money farms for those who own them. Mark my words, absentee land ownership is downright usury since the landlords have started talking. Just think about the feudal origins of the word, combined with unscrupulous optimism for profit being broadcast on internet. Collectively they can say "It's just the market".