@vlrny@LonelinessCorps
Sadly I think the weirdest use I've found is covering the light on my printer. You could still see it through the tape but it no longer lit up the whole room.
@Amoxtli
This is not a supply/demand *imbalance*, it's a slow return to affordability. What was going on during the pandemic was the imbalance. It will be balanced when we have no homelessness.
@helenslunch
Show me proof it doesn't matter and I'll believe it. There has been housing subsidizing for a long time. I had a subsidized apartment back in the 90s for a while. And yet prices didn't really spike until the last couple of years. I'll grant you it's possible subsidies cause landlords to raise rents a few dollars. But not to the degree we've seen lately.
What's happening lately is tenants are expected to bid for apartments. That's what's allowing the rents to skyrocket.
@helenslunch
All the less than 7500 people getting rent assistance in a market with how many apartments? That's a miniscule part of the market.
Rents increase because more people are moving here (it's gone from about 100k to nearly a million in the 30 years I've been here without much new building until the last few years) and Austin already had a tight apartment market in the 90s. @FigMcLargeHuge
@vlrny @LonelinessCorps
Sadly I think the weirdest use I've found is covering the light on my printer. You could still see it through the tape but it no longer lit up the whole room.
#startAConversation #ductTape #lonelinessCorps
@Amoxtli
This is not a supply/demand *imbalance*, it's a slow return to affordability. What was going on during the pandemic was the imbalance. It will be balanced when we have no homelessness.
@protist
That makes sense.
I tried to get an appointment at another and was told they couldn't do the battery work.
Autonation does a good job it just takes them longer than it would if there were more mechanics available.
@helenslunch
Show me proof it doesn't matter and I'll believe it. There has been housing subsidizing for a long time. I had a subsidized apartment back in the 90s for a while. And yet prices didn't really spike until the last couple of years. I'll grant you it's possible subsidies cause landlords to raise rents a few dollars. But not to the degree we've seen lately.
What's happening lately is tenants are expected to bid for apartments. That's what's allowing the rents to skyrocket.
@helenslunch
All the less than 7500 people getting rent assistance in a market with how many apartments? That's a miniscule part of the market.
Rents increase because more people are moving here (it's gone from about 100k to nearly a million in the 30 years I've been here without much new building until the last few years) and Austin already had a tight apartment market in the 90s.
@FigMcLargeHuge