next_migration ([personal profile] next_migration) wrote 2022-08-14 02:47 pm (UTC)

Holland

Regarding Holland, I just happened to see a news story reporting that LOW-income rentals in Holland can cost $1000 to $1700 per month, suggesting that the city may now be too expensive for most migrants. Hyperlinks can't be embedded in comments, so here's the link:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wrong-state-holland-resident-might-100033424.html

The guy in the story has personal difficulties that make it harder for him to support himself, but it's not specific to him that an "affordable" housing complex is charging up to $1694 a month for people/families whose income is really quite modest. Holland isn't New York City. This is appalling.

According to Zillow, the median rent in San Diego is now over $3500. How long can this go on before our national anthem becomes "Let's Lynch the Landlord"? I am not joking. There's a reason the superrich are trying to set the white working class against nonwhite workers and other scapegoats. If the non-property-baron classes all got together on this, they'd be lucky if rent control or expropriation was the worst they'd face.

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