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There ARE roofs out there, you just don't like where they are. It isn't the governments job to provide you with a roof in the location you want for the price that you want to pay. If you are serious YOU will take some of the advice offered here and find a place that you can afford to live on your income.
I want to live on the beach in Hawaii, should the government provide me with a place I can afford where I want to live?
Roofs cost on average $1,000 a month now across most METROPOLITAN AREAS in the country! Not the "hip, cool, areas" either. The whole metro factored in! And rising by double digits. Again, we need more supply!
Then move to a more affordable part of the country.
Like I said not all areas will be feasible for your needs. I would love to have a waterfront home, but I can't afford to live at the lake, so I rented, and bought, where I can afford to live.
In my area, you can have a nice apartment for $600 a month. Heck, you can rent a house for less than $1000 a month.
Why should people who were there first have to move because of newcomers?
I'm not quitting my job to move to some "middle of nowhere" place where who knows how I will feed myself! Nor should the dozens of millions of others being assaulted by the crazy rental market spike. This is a nationwide crisis that needs to be addressed!
It ISN'T nationwide as several posters have shown you. If you want to live in a desirable location, you will pay for it. Sorry but that's life.
My son want's to live in the center of a college town so he has rented a house with 4 other guys, they each pay $500 a month. They wanted something and did what was needed to get it, and these are college kids working part time jobs. I'm sure that if you put your mind to it, you can do it too.
No. There's a difference between working hard and smart and delaying gratification over a span of decades... vs. a feeling of deserving something for merely having been squirted into the world and being a digestive tube...
Roofs cost on average $1,000 a month now across most METROPOLITAN AREAS in the country! Not the "hip, cool, areas" either. The whole metro factored in! And rising by double digits. Again, we need more supply!
And we need more of them. They aren't building anywhere near enough. But the government should build housing that doesn't accept section 8. Currently if the government builds a housing community they make it section 8, which you can only get with dependents.
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Originally Posted by Happiness-is-close
Yes, I know there are other circumstances. The point is that your average middle class joe without kids or disabilities can't qualify for them.
If you know that why did you post the bolded and underlined in the first quoted post? What is the purpose of posting misguiding information and then saying you knew otherwise?
Honestly, your average middle class Joe without kids has many viable housing opportunities available to him all over this country.
I'm not quitting my job to move to some "middle of nowhere" place where who knows how I will feed myself! Nor should the dozens of millions of others being assaulted by the crazy rental market spike. This is a nationwide crisis that needs to be addressed!
That's when you search for a job while you are at your current one in a place that is more affordable.
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Originally Posted by Nepenthe
No. There's a difference between working hard and smart and delaying gratification over a span of decades... vs. a feeling of deserving something for merely having been squirted into the world and being a digestive tube...
So many have a sense of entitlement and the whole Veruca Salt mentality of "I want it now" while not knowing how to live within their means.
I'm not quitting my job to move to some "middle of nowhere" place where who knows how I will feed myself!
Good grief. There's plenty in between. You sound like you have slightly expensive tastes and an unwillingness to compromise or consider alternatives. It seems like the biggest 'crisis' is the cognitive dissonance between how you think things should be and how you should be living vs. how things actually are.
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