I live in a low income area which has had historically low costs of livings for as long as I've been here. (Im a graduate student and this is a small college town in the middle of nowhere). I always looked on to other cities seeing extreme cost of living increases and just thanking my lucky stars. Now in my town were seeing a 30% increase on rent over one year. Families and small landlords moved away after the pandemic and rental conglomerates moved in. Every apartment is rented through a property management company now. It seems fewer and fewer houses are available now because theyre all fucking rentals and literally everyone is being forced to rent because they DONT GET FUCKING PAID ENOUGH TO BUY A HOUSE!. I make 30k a year as a sudent and because theres such a shortage with seriously inflated rates I'm worried I'll be on the streets in a month.
So my question is, why the fuck are we not rioting over this? Why are we just taking this to the gut and letting daddy big bucks continue to fuck us?
TLDR: Time to protest people.