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Trump says landlords need to raise rents because the cost of energy has gone up over the past year pic.twitter.com/zK3l8V2zHk — FactPost (@factpostnews) June 26, 2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has launched a strong crackdown on bad landlords. The city is now aggressively using fines, liens, and foreclosure to seize buildings from negligent or repeat violator landlords and transfer them to tenant cooperatives, community groups, or public control. 🇺🇸 Mamdani announced the city will strip landlords of their buildings and hand …
The surnames are kinda suspicious h/t Zess-57
Sweeping Mamdani Agenda Hits Landlords https://t.co/Q935k6FALY 1/The Kommunist from Kampala clearly intends to bring all economic activity under the control of the state, and the inevitable economic collapse and social disorder that this will require that all activities of all — miles e drake (@medrakemd) November 15, 2025 How about that billionaire Alex Soros donating …
Washington Post editorial says Mamdani ‘drops the mask’ after election win, offers ‘seething’ victory speech. The Washington Post editorial board asserted that a “new era of class warfare has begun” in New York City after Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won last week’s election — criticizing what it described as his “change in character” since the campaign. In a Saturday editorial titled …
Landlords are reporting a huge surge in apartment applications. Especially in luxury apartment communities with strong absorption and higher occupancy rates. This comes after 2+ years of rental rate cuts in the U.S., where developers who overbuilt were forced to reduce rents in markets like Nashville, Austin, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Now, the rent could …
Ben Leo visited a street in Bolton where an English single mother and her children were evicted so her home could be turned into an HMO to house migrants.
Landlords and property managers getting nervous pic.twitter.com/UloHrBRDAo — GBR (@GayBearRes) August 14, 2025 Apartment vacancies are skyrocketing. Never forget who warned you first. https://t.co/yeL2Yf3I0P — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) August 14, 2025 Lumber prices are declining. A leading indicator for new home construction if this trend holds. Something to keep an eye on. pic.twitter.com/9UZAhK68UQ — AKM …
If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City, it will happen fast. Betting markets put him at 80%. The wealthy are already planning to leave. This will not be slow change. It will be a jolt. https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1955004486285701246 Cops are already looking to leave. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says NYPD officers will head south, where they get …
A migrant mother in Boston received $30,000 through Governor Maura Healey’s HomeBASE program. She used it in under 10 months. The program was designed to last two years. She’s now asking for more help https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14969147/migrant-mom-complains-taxpayer-housing-handout-massachusetts.html The program requires families to pay 30% of income toward rent. Nadine lost her job. Her boyfriend left. Her share …
New law awaits signature while chaos spreads. GOV. JB PRITZKER @JBPritzker needs to sign this law tomorrow. We need this for our communities, this has to END. I’ve literally had to create a team to remove squatters over the years, this shouldn’t be the case. END THIS NOW! pic.twitter.com/8MNLsdR5nK — Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) July 19, …
In this video a Financially Struggling 40 year old man expresses his frustration about how poor he and everybody he knows is. The cost of living is becoming so high that even those who are working full time are barely scraping by. He also talks about how it is only going to get harder for …
Florida is losing people due to move-outs, according to new data from the US Census Bureau, with counties like Miami, Palm Beach, and Broward all losing people in 2024.
LA Rental Hits $40,000 a Month as Fires Roil Housing Market Tenants vulnerable to gouging as disaster hits tight market Vacancies were 5% before blazes burned 12,000 structures
🇨🇦 landlords are drowning in red ink, clinging to hopes of future equity gains while the cash bleed grows https://t.co/Qqm6cHMJmA — Shazi (@ShaziGoalie) December 2, 2024 BREAKING: 1 million Ontarians used food banks. With food costs already UP 35%, Trudeau will hike his carbon tax on food again next year, on his path to QUADRUPLING …
Landlords across America are being forced to cut the rent on houses due to weakening demand. Especially here in Florida where rent growth is declining and big corporate investors like Blackstone and Starwood Capital are beginning to sell. Declining rents is a big problem for these investors, because the property tax bills and insurance costs …
Landlords in the commercial real estate sector are indeed facing a significant challenge with $1.5 trillion of debt maturing by the end of next year. Approximately a quarter of this debt could be difficult to refinance due to higher interest rates and lower property valuations. Regarding multifamily assets, around $95 billion of these properties in …
KEY POINTS The U.S. Department of Justice accused software company RealPage of unlawfully scheming to undermine competition among landlords and create a monopoly that harms millions of renters. RealPage “allows landlords to manipulate, distort, and subvert market forces,” the Justice Department said in the federal civil antitrust lawsuit. Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “Everybody knows …
Lawsuits Mount Over Software Used by Landlords to Set Rents Antitrust cases contend that use of RealPage’s algorithm, which lets property owners share private data, amounts to collusion. Imagine a system that lets big landlords in your city work together to raise rents, using detailed, otherwise-private information about what their competitors are charging. Such a …
Shannon McKenney Shubert, with the Michigan Breastfeeding Network, and Tameka White, a Certified Lactation Counselor, with their kids, testifying to the House Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2024. | Screenshot A five-bill package that would prevent landlords from denying renters based on their source of income passed through the Michigan House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, with testimony …
Values of apartments and commercial real estate are down as much as 30-40% from the peak in the middle of 2022. Indicating a widespread crash in the real estate market that could get worse as 2024 progresses.
Arizona’s attorney general claims owners of apartment complexes in Phoenix have colluded with a software company to inflate rental prices.
🚨🚨 NEW RENTS IN TORONTO CONTINUE TO PLUMMET DOWN ALMOST $300/mo SINCE AUG FOR A 2 BEDROOM TORONTO HAS THE MOST LEVERAGED LANDLORDS IN CANADA — CASHFLOW CRISIS INCOMING pic.twitter.com/XmUfbUqaiT — Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 1, 2024
Landlords around America are doing emergency rent cuts on properties that they can’t find tenants for. Particularly in a market like Phoenix, where the evictions have skyrocketed. The central problem that these big Wall Street Landlords are facing is that they increased the rent too much during the pandemic. To a level that locals can’t …
DFW rents are now negative y/y, when I get my lease renewal and see the increase, I'ma tell them to f'uck off and move to one of the many apartments offering much lower rates. — goldenkazeburny (@goldenkazeburny) October 7, 2023
In a case that promises to utterly upend New York politics — and boost the city’s housing market — the Supreme Court may soon strike down the essence of the rent control laws. Local politicians love nothing more than to gesture on behalf of cheaper housing, as with the City Council bill aiming to force landlords to pay broker …
via bullsnbears: ABOUT $1.2 trillion of debt on US commercial real estate is “potentially troubled” because it’s highly leveraged and property values are falling, according to Newmark Group. Offices are the biggest near-term problem, accounting for more than half of the US$626 billion of at-risk debt that’s set to mature by the end of 2025, …
https://twitter.com/dailyjobcuts/status/1678396843397464067 Illinois will soon require landlords to rent and sell property to illegal aliens, opening the housing market to tens of thousands considered deportable from the United States, even as rents remain sky-high in metropolitan areas like Chicago. Late last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed SB 1817 into law, which will add “immigration status” …
via YAHOO: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one of the longest-lasting eviction bans in the country. The eviction moratorium in the San Francisco …
