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Next Week Seattle City Council is expected to change the ethics code in an alarming way.
The are planning on deleting economic conflicts of interest as a reason council members would be required to recuse from a vote.
It would be a good week to consider attending a city council meeting or emailing your (likely very terrible) council person and tell them to stop being so fucking corrupt.
If you are dealing with an office worker in an apartment complex, if they are part-time on purpose (not trying to boot lick for more hours) they will probably be cool AF.
I helped grandmas figure out how to be allowed to bring their nonresident grandchildren into the pool legally when getting something notarized was a pain in the ass. (I just gave them 10 authorization forms & told them to try to leave the signature date blank- you’re actually not supposed to notarize an incomplete document but the bank notaries would do it for these people then they could just add the date they want to swim before they come into the office with the document)
I took a complaint from someone who was pissed off her neighbor was smoking weed. It’s not a non-smoking complex. Furthermore we have medical cannabis here (#NH )
BUT the weird shit about our medical cannabis rules is that I want to smoke in my apartment because I have a medical card I’m supposed to get permission from my landlord. But if I have a guest who wants to smoke in my apartment because they have a medical card they only have to get permission from the leaseholder.
SO, when I took this Complaint I told the tenant calling that it’s actually not a non-smoking complex but I would definitely pass along the information. Then by coincidence the person they called about stopped by to pay their rent in person so I said “hey someone just called about weed smell.”
This poor man had just moved in and he freaked out he started to try to explain a bunch of stuff to me and I just held up my hand and said “no I literally don’t care.” I made sure to tell him I have NO AUTHORITY HERE. Then I suggested a towel under the door & I told him to look at the rules on the state TCP page because I’m not a lawyer but as far as I know if his friend has a card and he gives them permission to smoke that’s totally legal, but please check it out for yourself.
Then I put the Complaint I took in the shredder since I felt like I handled it I didn’t need to turn it into anybody.
I also really enjoyed telling people that even though our landlord only allows one pet, the maintenance guys know about the dog rules, but they give no fucks if you have three cats. The office people might notice if all three cats are sitting in the same window at the same time, but most of us don’t care so just lie. It’s fine just lie.
I just saw this on reddit re rentals and I think this is solid advice and not assholey at all.
When I worked for a private landlord sometimes the sob stories would actually help, but not the ones that involved financial problems.
And he told me that if someone’s sob story involved needed to flee a bad relationship he wouldn’t choose them, mostly because in his experience they would accept the apartment and then decide not to leave their relationship and he would have to go back and choose someone else and start over.
I thought he was wrong until I witnessed it happen with people who didn’t give us the sob story, but then explained when they backed out why they backed out.
There was also a space on the application where you could check if you had a criminal record. His background check was just googling people for a second, so I would tell anyone who asked to just lie unless they show up on Google. Because if they checked that box he wouldn’t choose them.
"Goldstone doesn’t use the abstract language of structural violence, but his story is full of #landlords, #bureaucrats, and #politicians insulated from the pain they inflict by distance, resources, and power." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/working-homeless-in-america/
Please help my friend if you can
This is a wonderful talented artist, Jen Bandini. She has been in and out of hospital with existing and new symptoms.
Consequently her landlord served her an eviction notice, and her beautiful dog Pippa was put into foster care.
She is hoping to return to North Carolina to be with friends and family and then hopefully reunited with Pippa.
Any help is greatly appreciated: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/jen-needs-help
(or please share if you can).
https://www.europesays.com/1998460/ Australia’s growing cohort of tenants fear they will rent forever #australia #election #FederalElection #FederalGovernment #ForeverRenters #housing #HousingPolicy #Landlords #LongerLeases #NewSouthWales #queensland #RentCaps #RentalStress #rentals #RenterRights #renting #switzerland #tenants #victoria
@davidsirota The report:
https://pestakeholder.org/reports/private-equity-multi-family-housing-tracker/#ownership
says:
>We have identified 121 private equity companies[36] that own at least 8,200 apartment buildings with over 2.2 million units.[37]
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>Private equity’s ownership of almost 2.2 million apartment units represents about 10 percent of the total number of apartment units in the country.[39]
Source 37 is only given as:
>Data Source: Yardi Matrix and Lexis Nexis
Which, unfortunately, is a duo of proprietary sources. The authors likely can't release it for verification :(
Source 39 is given as:
>According to the National Multifamily Housing Council’s tabulation of 2023 American Community Survey microdata from the US Census Bureau, there are almost 23.3 million apartment units in the U.S. An apartment unit is defined as any rental unit in a structure with 5 or more units. https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/quick-facts-figures/quick-facts-data-download/
Alas, that page gives only a bunch of spreadsheets, with no indication of where the 23.3 million number is coming from. Looks like it comes from the "State Distribution of Apartment Stock, 2022" XLS file, as the sum of all 50 cells with numbers for apartment units for each state comes up to "23,275,718" total units, which is indeed "almost 23.3 million."
Their underlying data source is the American Community Survey microdata, and the NMHC frustratingly does not release their work/code on how they go from that microdata to their tabulations.
Attempting to look at building stats from the microdata, for example, gives this:
I can't get any of their numbers in their "State Distribution of Apartment Stock, 2022" XLS file (NMHC tabulations of 2023 American Community Survey microdata, US Census Bureau. Updated 10/2024) to line up with this table. According to the above linked table, there are 6,603,715 5+ apartment units, 6,205,203 10+ apartments units, 5,517,342 20+ apartment units, and 9,795,042 50+ apartment units, for a total of 28,121,302 estimated apartment units, across the United States. The table I selected includes DC, but that only accounts for 201,294 of the total.
28.1 million (or 27.9 million without DC) apartment units is pretty far from 23.3 million apartment units. What gives? Perhaps NMHC uses a different Housing Unit Weight? Does other prodcessing of the microdata?
The resulting percentage of apartment units owned by private equity would still be alarming (7.88%), just not quite at that double-digit 10.0% mark.
There are 4,521 people on the “social housing” waiting list in #MoretonBay, the longest in #Queensland.
The price of contesting landlord power, even through the narrow channel of legal remedy, is now being passed back to the tenant.
https://overland.org.au/2025/04/the-impossibility-of-housing-rights/
@MichaelPorter @GhostOnTheHalfShell @davidaugust that's because they "#diversity" their portfolio and can cover their expenses as #Landlords and other #Rentseeking #ValueRemovers.
- After all, they too want a #Neofeudalist & #Christofacist #dictatorship!