It’s actually wild how much speculation has driven up rent for businesses. I’ve seen pretty popular spots just get crushed by it. Petit beoug getting gobbled up by the bigger fish
It’s baffling more people support this system. A lot of popular shops all over my state have closed not because they weren’t making money, but because they could no longer afford to rent the buildings they were in. After closing, they’ve sat empty for years. Landlords would rather make $0 each month than charge less rent.
Of course, liberals and other chuds will blame nonsense like crime, immigrants, minimum wage, and so on before they blame any actual reasons.
Chuds pat themselves on the back for being soooo brave to have the courageTM to say that if all homeless people and minorities get genocided, that would solve the housing crisis?
But the nanosecond anyone calls out landlords being greedy you’re either called a naive kid at best or you get lectured by the same people who just advocated genocide on how it’s not nice to tell landlords they have enough.
It’s crazy! Like, even if for some reason we want to keep the whole landlord thing going, there are guardrails you could put up to prevent them from rotting out the cores of our cities.
Like, make it so the current tenant gets the right to keep paying the current rate until the landlord finds someone who’s willing to pay the higher one. If someone wants it, great, fine, you can close the old business and let the new tenant open. But if you can’t find a new tenant for the higher rent, don’t let the building literally rot instead.
Hmmm someone should write a book on the petty bourgeois and how they aspire to become bourgeois but are more likely to fall back down into the proletariat.
damn shame nobody’s written on this very interesting and relevant topic.
