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Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds (www.npr.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

You guys can rent?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Canada: First time?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

SF Bay area - No.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Now? Did it become affordable for 51 percent of American Renters for like a month or something? It's been unaffordable for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

In other news: Half of US renters become urban campers.

[+] [email protected] -64 points 9 months ago (4 children)

B-but lemmy told me that things were actually great ny every metric and that people's anxieties is misinformation to get trump back in office

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one on lemmy said that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Oh, there's definitely plenty of brainwashed trolls on the fediverse. They just don't necessarily make up more than a small minority.

[+] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I agree

[+] [email protected] -13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are more than tw…. okay I won’t waste my breath, let’s continue voting lessor of two evils forever until we actually elect satan and the game resets.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Realistically there are only two options in the presidential race. In other races there's far more choice and chance of seeing effective change.

If you're only betting on one horse, that being the general presidential race, yeah you've got two options: slow decline or fast decline. Expand your portfolio, my dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

even more realistically theres banding together and rejecting this rotten system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes. Vote in all elections. Vote locally since that's where real grassroots politicians get their start and can have the opportunity to build their reputation. Do some active research and donate time or money to campaigns you really support. Vote in primaries to get your preferred candidates into the general. Vote the best or at least the least bad electable option in the general. Bitter old assholes have nothing better to do than consume media that will try to scare them into getting their asses to the ballot boxes to vote in ways that help those media companies grow more profit. We need to similarly remain aware and active to contest their weaponized gullibility. These are the same demographic who get tricked into buying iTunes gift cards to hand over to scammers posing as the IRS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

trump is just gonna make things worse for you in favour of rich people, but go ahead you do you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see a lot of lib brainrot on .world and the like but I genuinely have not seen people saying that. Most Americans are well aware of how shit things are getting they just unfortunately believe that electoralism will change things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Brother, normal people don't say things like 'lib brainrot'. You sound like an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Liberalism encompasses both American political parties to be clear. From an outside perspective who was formerly on the inside it really feels like a degradation of self awareness or at the very least and a complete lack of critical thoughts at worst.

I call it brainrot because it feels like it's actively getting worse as time goes on but maybe I'm just becoming more aware of it as I age idk. I'll admit it's a terminally online term tho lol