I keep seeing these rental costs and keep wondering who the HELL can afford it working a regular job.

That was a scary movie.

But try the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker, origin of Candyman and imo way more disturbing.

Thank you so much for the recommendation.

CGI has caught up to it

A crime solving sewer worker and precinct captain in the machine of "post-machine" Chicago. A fun read.

At least my impression of CG.

the ridiculously expensive housing to erase/replace a record of how we "supported" those at the bottom end of the economic and racial status scales, in a way that created/maintained threat, danger, and a state of predation while kept those 'others' away from those higher up the scales.

Why is a modern version of poltegiest being released coming to mind when reading this?

You can't find anything much below $1000/mo per bedroom even in a slum.

Even in college I was splitting a 2BR for about $200 with 4 people.

Don't live on the coasts if high rent makes you crazy.

The first house I shared with people was a 3 Br for $195/mo + bills.
15 years ago that same house sold for $320K-Hell you could buy the whole block for that with change left over when I lived there.
Same house now is at least $800K.

I can't see how people making $10/hr are living. Austin is the only major city with a declining Black population-they're being driven out by the rising costs of living.

I'm lucky my house is paid for and my property taxes dropped from $2900+ to $1500+ since I turned 65 even though they upped the valuation of my house by $12K.

The idea of not sharing housing is relatively new.

Fold out couches and bunk beds.

Though thank God I'm only here a few more months.

My Indian coworker owns a mansion back there for less per month

But Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bangalore (and to a lesser extent Ahmedabad and Kolkata) are all in crazy real estate bubbles right now. Working people either live in public housing (which is much more available here, though it's segregated by ethnicity, religion, and unofficially caste although at least in theory that's illegal) or pack four people into a bedroom.

The high rise projects were awful, but it's too bad to cede land to the moneyed . . . just because of the money.

Seriously. That's what that word means at this point.

We bought our first house back in 1975 for a whopping $24,000 with $50 down. That's less than a year's rent these days.

Seriously we should just pass a damn VAT. Take the rich out of the political equation.

I guess this is why I think free college is such a good idea. With that giant debt following someone around forever they wouldn't qualify to buy a travel trailer let alone a house. I blame the "trickle down" concept for most of this. It's not money that's sloshing around our feet after all these decades.

I couldn't afford it

That was the last place I lived in DC. Nice neighborhood, actually.

Those costs one up with rent prices I'm seeing for new buildings. One right across from where I work has three bedroom units on the upper floors- 2200 sq feet each -at $4800/month.

It's insane.

I'm in my 40s, hubby is in his 50s. He bought our first home for $55k back in the late 1980s. Same house would sell for $700k+ now. We probably couldn't afford our current house now, which we paid slightly less than $500k for about 13 years ago. Houses are selling for $700k+ in the Sellwood area of SE Portland which to me is just, well, insane. I wouldn't want to pay that much to live right next to someone in a busy area on a small lot.

down my street in SoCal. Also, I think Sellwood is a much nicer 'hood than mine

https://www.redfin.com/CA/South-Pasadena/1945-Fletcher-Ave-91030/home/7008357

I fear that's where Portland is headed in terms of housing prices - over a million for a small house.

A friend is trying to buy in sellwood - the last house they looked at was located a block from a busy street where lots of large apartment buildings are going in. She was looking at over $650k for the 3 bd/2 ba house. It's getting so expensive so fast. And the traffic has gotten pretty bad in the past few years, especially as the economy has improved.

And I don't blame folks for moving here. It's a great place to live, and we have plenty of water. If I owned that house down the street from you, I'd sell and buy a fabulous home in Portland! (And likely have no mortgage)

We just bought a 5,930 sq ft house in Centralia WA for $284.500 (2965 up w/ finished full basement)

Apparently Cabrini Green is now chic

It was seen in the opening and closing credits.

As a native it infuriates me!

We now have a housing shortage, so all the new apartments are now luxury. No reasonable rent amount allowed. It's just awful!

I can only imagine what it's going to do to LA rent prices.

$3200 is absolutely insane.

I live in NYC.