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Re:Rent-Stabilized Housing Is Disappearing Fast in NYC
by boskonyc on Friday July 31, 2015 @03:06PM
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You might have a good job, but it's probably not good enough for a decent life in New York. Either that, or you just don't know how to find quality housing in your price range. It's not easy for out of towners the first few years. Lots of mistakes :) This is one of the most desirable cities in the world. It's not the rent-stabilization that makes the city less than affordable for you.
Re:Rent-Stabilized Housing Is Disappearing Fast in NYC
by cynicalkane on Friday July 31, 2015 @03:07PM
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> It's not the rent-stabilization that makes the city less than affordable for you.
First, this is a fallacy: in economics, things usually have multiple factors. In regards to whether rent policy is a significant factor on housing affordability for newcomers, people who study this for a living are in almost universal agreement that you're wrong.
Re:Rent-Stabilized Housing Is Disappearing Fast in NYC
by busterarm on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:56PM
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Yes, the <1.8% of us with _actually low_ rents (most stabilized apartments aren't nearly that low) are the reason you can't get an affordable apartment.
Keep dreaming.
Also, it's not just a matter of "I got mine." Living where I am afforded me class mobility that I likely would not have had in my life otherwise. I've been _dirt poor_ for most of my life, even in this apartment. What is your alternative to that?
Why are you so focussed on what other people have?
I lived here through the hard times when the neighborhood was shitty and filled with derelicts, winos and prostitutes.
We all kept the building clean and nice. We lived in the building when _nobody wanted to live here_. We chased out the crooks who used to try to mug people in our elevator and kick open doors. The landlord made improvements to the building because the way the rent control law is designed, _they have to_ to get rent increases.
And we're still here and a great tenant and great neighbors.
Oh and of course the landlord has been trying all sorts of illegal means to get us (and the single-digit handful of other controlled tenants, 100+ unit building) out - and regularly gets verbally slapped around by a judge in housing court. It's a good thing we held on to hold on to _all of our records related to being in this apartment all the way back to 1970_...because we had to.