Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point

Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by Bromskloss on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:57PM (#15564690)

Don't rents simply reflect supply and demand? It seems unlikely that they would rise beyond the "breaking point" for _everyone_ or even most people.

Also, whenever someone is homeless, that's someone for whom the rents are above the breaking point.

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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by poorrights on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:00PM (#15564707)

Just because enough people can pay $2,500 per month for a studio doesn’t mean the people who can’t deserve to be homeless.

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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by Bromskloss on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:14PM (#15564785)

I say nothing about who deserves it.

I'm talking about the headline, which makes it sound like rents being past people's breaking point (0) is something that could happen to the population at large, and (1) hasn't always been the case for some.

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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by poorrights on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:00PM (#15564709)

And no, it isn’t just “simply supply and demand”. This has to be the most ad absurdum reductio I’ve ever read in my life.

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