Sentences with phrase «unaffordable rents»

In the first one we encounter artists contemplating on their own states and practices: sleeping, leading a nomadic life due to unaffordable rents, or meticulously reciting the ways to create an artwork.

«Our research found that unaffordable rents are making it hard for people to save for a down payment... There are good reasons to rent temporarily — when you move to a new city, for example — but from an affordability perspective, rents are crazy right now.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

There was little that the state's nearly one million rent - regulated tenants felt they could do to protect themselves from facing unaffordable rents or losing their homes.

People choose to give media blasphemy more attention than actual concerning matters - like student debt and unaffordable rent.

Not exact matches

If you've held down a steady job, for more than 20 years, have no dept, some savings, but not a bunch own a vehicle, and pay rent somewhere, even though it may be at your parents place, because a home is unaffordable to buy, with what you earn.

Blond appears to think that council rents are unaffordable for the working poor.

The Assembly also did not use the expiration of those two programs as a way to strengthen rent regulations to try to stop the hemorrhage of rent - stabilized apartments or put the brakes on mechanisms that landlords use to raise stabilized rents to unaffordable levels.

And because renters find themselves needing to move so regularly — whether the landlord wants an unaffordable new level of rent, or the tenant can't face another year in a badly maintained property — they have to contend with the pain of letting agent fees and trying to get their deposit back more frequently than any person should reasonably be expected to.

Housing associations are forced to charge an unaffordable 80 % of market rent making them no longer «social» landlords, only for middle - earners.

And if living with one's parents is our working presumption - because renting let alone buying for many younger people is unaffordable - how does this square with labour market mobility?

«Rent stabilized housing remains unaffordable for a majority of tenants living in those units.»

She said that many teachers were now renting from private landlords and in London the cost was becoming unaffordable, forcing teachers out of the capital.

Markets that seem affordable because their median rent is on the low side may actually be unaffordable to people who live there.

For example, in the notoriously unaffordable San Francisco metropolitan area, renters in white communities can expect to spend 48.8 percent of their income on rent each month — certainly a very large share of their income, but nevertheless small in comparison to minority neighborhoods.

Building yet another modern tiny home with Japanese flavours is 50 - year - old Vancouverite Isabella Mori, who got her new 186 square - foot tiny home built late last year as a way to bypass rising rents and Vancouver's shockingly expensive real estate market, recently ranked second-most unaffordable in the world, after Hong Kong.

In 14 large US metros, rent takes up more than 30 % of the median income, widely considered the standard for unaffordable housing costs.

With no emergency fund, one small problem could make rent unaffordable for a family.

And a greater demand for rental housing has made rents unaffordable for many lower - income and working families.

Rents have skyrocketed to the point where they are becoming unaffordable.

«There are several reasons why there should be more first - time buyers reaching the market, including persistently low mortgage rates, healthy job prospects for those college - educated, and the fact that renting is becoming more unaffordable in many areas,» said Dr. Yun.

Whenever rental prices are considered unaffordable, many see rent control as the answer to make housing more attainable.

The main risk for the sector is not the new supply, but that sluggish wage growth makes high rents unaffordable to many of the potential tenants.

In these metros, fair market rents and median - priced homes were unaffordable for housekeepers, wait staff, front desk managers, and auto mechanics.

The fair market rent for a two - bedroom apartment was unaffordable for housekeepers and wait staff in all 207 metro areas.