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eat the rich because the poor are skinny " humans being or doing?"

Submitted by hazzardus waste on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 5:38pm.

oly has always been a blue collar type of town the recent efforts to gentrify this vibrant growing community are wrong because they propose a value system that puts living and existence on a perilous level for some members of this place we call home and for this it is wrong. the reasons for poverty are simple the rich have all the money, and in order to subjugate the classes you have to have an under class. an "injury to one is an injury to all" or the catholic worker "god in everyone" or "to each acording their need each according there ability" all are revelant!! we are all humans doing and me must do even if we are don quixote tilting at windmills!!
society must accept the poor on equal footing as with the rich other wise its all bullshit.
the reason for "homelessness" are many and varied but the biggest issue is a lack of affordable housing. here in oly as a long term poor person i find i cant afford housing because the greeners rent all the places and jack up the average rent.
a good direct action would be for all you to move back to the dorms and stop impacting the community surrounding you. or expropriate some land and let us build houses. well i"m starting to ramble so i will through his out to you

errr

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 5:49pm.

Damn Greener!? I think....

Renters set the rent price?

Submitted by bubbaz (not verified) on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 5:53pm.

Renters set the rent price?

I thought landlords did that..

Having said that..

Rents are getting pretty high around here..

I remember being able to rent a house for $500 a month around here.

I think prices are going up because the real estate market is so hot around here, and alot of the former rental homes are now owned.

we cant blame students for that..

"Greener" students are not "rolling" these properties over and jacking up prices.

Other people are..

i know the social dynamics

Submitted by hazzardus waste on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 5:57pm.

i know the social dynamics of our tax structure pumping up property values. and i meant the greener post to create dialog. the subdivisions are jacking up property values way more but i just wanted to point out that we are all part of the problem and all part of the solution.

Being somewhat new to the

Submitted by breathe on Tue, 12/05/2006 - 12:19pm.

Being somewhat new to the area, I cannot comment on what the rental prices used to be. The OP resonated with me somewhat, however. I went to college back in the 80s in Boston, an area with over 60 colleges & there was a lot of talk at the time about the impact that the students were having on the price of housing. If a landlord could charge $1400/month for a 2 bedroom apartment, (and this back in the 80s) that will get split 3 or 4 ways, then that is what the market will bear, especially when you have a lot of situations where college kids get money from home to foot their rent while in school. This has a huge impact on families- who have to keep downsizing in order to keep a roof over their heads. Even with 2 parents working at decent jobs, that is a huge portion of monthly income to put towards rent. So you end up with families living in studio apartments, and eventually, on the streets.

I haven't seen rents quite that high around here. I suspect that some of the higher rent cost is really just a reflection of the manic rise in housing value that has been going on for the whole west coast for a few years- although I have heard it is now tapering off, the rise in property values will definitely impact rental costs.

I do know that we had a pretty hard time finding a place to live when we landed in Oly, but it wasn't so much about cost as it was about being unemployed (of course we were unemployed- we just got here!) The place we finally found was not much more than what we were paying in a economically depressed area back east.

It definitely seems like a landlords market at the moment, though.

can i live at your house?

Submitted by hazzardus waste on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 8:49am.

i need a place to go can i live at your house? eat the rich the poor are skinny

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