Rent: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2022
- John Oliver discusses why rent has become increasingly unaffordable, what we can do to combat a system that is stacked against tenants, and, of course, Dakota Johnson’s complex relationship to limes.
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This is why people in horror movies don't move out of haunted houses.
There could be demons prowling the halls and I'd be like "You're not as scary as being homeless, sorry."
Reminds me of that ABK skit:
- ...but surely the government would guarantee affordable housing?
- Doctor, my wife is insane.
The 2023 version of Arachnophobia is a comedy about annoying roommates.
I think about that often lol I wouldn’t be able to move. Ghost better get his ass a job & start pitching in.
"Sure, it's got a murderous ghoul living in the attic, but the rent is a third of other places within an hour of my job. What can you do?"
This show is the most fun ive ever had spiraling into an existential crisis.
Binging your channel for 5 hours: cool lovecraftian story, sucks to be the protagonists.
Watching John Oliver for 15 minutes: what's the point of living any more...
Such a good summation of how i feel about this show lol
@@charlieni645 haha xD
Spiraling you say?
Also just saying. Mao had some good ideas about how to handle landlords
The line "people who think investments deserve more respect than basic human needs" explains so much about a scary part of American culture.
yea, It's called capitalism baby!
@@kayleelockheart8208 i would simply round up the landlords and [REDACTED]
@@sirius1696 And compost. They'd probably give all of us tummy aches. Anyone got a guillotine?
@@kayleelockheart8208 From the outside: the american experiment looks very failed right now. US capitalist are complete savages, it's disgusting.
That’s kinda what slave owners thought too.
The hilarious part is that the politicians and other people fighting against a cap on rent are the same people complaining about the increase in homelessness.
@@AlexisFedrick Indeed.
The same people who oppose increasing the federal minimum wage.
Politicians and lobbyists want to subsidize high rental costs and profit off of it through investment in rentals, rather than actually addressing the problem by capping the amount of profit that can be taken in rent above cost to own, bringing rents back down to reasonable levels.
the head-in-the-sand illogical fairy tale model (Pleasantville) is what drives American culture. So many people believe that if they believe it, then it must be real. They don't want to know facts or help solve problems. Pretending they don't exist is so much easier. That's how these govt. paradoxes become reality.
Getting harder for anyone to tell someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. No one can afford boots anymore.
I moved to a Wilderness area of the US in 2010. I seldom deal with the Humans, anymore. (I texted Humans like the Ferengi say it.)
"Pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. A thing that is literally impossible"
It never was, or ever will be, a meritocracy.
An Old Adage: A poor man buys a pair of shoes 2x/year for 10 bucks each while a rich man buys a pair of shoes only once in their lifetime for 50 dollars. This is the nature of our bootstraps we pull on.
@@Baloneyious_Monk Sounds based on the Vimes Boots Theorem.
There’s an elderly woman at my apartment complex battling cancer who told me she’s going to have to live with her son now because they’re raising her rent by $600. She’s not ready to give up her independence but there are NO other places she can afford to go to. She’s been here for THIRTY YEARS and a new corporation buys up the community this year and does this immediately. It’s just downright evil.
That's literally my exact situation. Except I have kidney cancer and I'm not exactly old ....I got backed up scripts I can't even get filled my water s off. And Ssdi is extremely slow due to the pandemic so I'm probably about to be homeless if it doesn't come thru and I have no friends or family besides my cat/roomate/BFF and it's literally all I think about it's scary
Neighborhood Mom & Pop landlords are always a mixed bag. Some are decent, some are aspiring villains with delusions of being millionaires.
But one thing that holds true, always, is that the larger the landlord the more linearly awful they behave. Guaranteed.
Home of the Free, Land of the Brave! .... this is what a 'free market' does, it fucks everyone but the Landlords..
30 years that's a long time
Grandparents often live with their children in the Asian community and that may be another reason they're so successful. Grandparents can put that rent money towards the household.
I’m a US Army veteran who served in Iraq twice. After my second deployment I came back ill, so the Army sent me packing with medical retirement. The base I lived in allowed me to stay in military housing even after retirement. The rent was now paid with my disability compensation, which after a couple of years got cut due to one of my children becoming an adult. I called housing to ask them to give me some time to get the money together. Instead, I got served with an eviction filled federally. I was homeless for almost three years. I tried to get help from the VA, but I didn’t qualify because of being 100% disabled , which means a bigger check supposedly. They didn’t understand that it wasn’t about the money. It was about my record being tarnished. I got hospitalized for suicide ideation after I saw myself alone with my dog in my car with nowhere to go. The system is disgusting and it’s meant to set us up for failure. It doesn’t even matter that at some point I proudly served my country. I was useless to them once I got sick.
I hope you're much better now. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service. After dutifully serving your country, making sure you don't end up homeless is the least your country should do for you... it's a travesty.
So sorry, and yes, it's all rigged !!! We're no where near a democracy or meritocracy... capitalism is stopping us from moving forward. It used to help but no longer, pretty much most of our problems are lack of funds.
Thank you for your service. And I fucking mean that.
Thank you for your service. You matter and I am so sorry you experienced this
It only took a year and a half, but Kissinger finally kicked the bucket
Did he? The Wicked Witch is dead?
Is Kissinger What was Thatcher for UK?
The landlord I rent from hasn't raised the rent on me at all in the last 4 years. I asked her once how she manged to stay afloat and she said that she attracts low-maintenance renters who stay long term and pay on time. I've never been more grateful -- especially since watching this video.
That's amazing! My complexes owners sold to an LLC last year and my rent went up 53%. I know there's still good and moral owners out there and they've got a golden ticket to heaven for sure.
@@daniellong3194 53%?! That's just evil.
Yeah. I learned quickly in college that you'll get a far better deal renting from an individual vs a company. I moved to a small unit owned by a retired professor in my senior year and had none of the headaches from the previous year (where I rented from an LLC). I didn't get questions of 'is that person on the lease?' if I had a friend over for a week or get a $50 'late fee' for paying the rent half a day late.
The current person I rent from (when I moved for grad school) didn't even ask for a credit rating. Just proof that I had a job, first and last month's security, and a promise that I wouldn't get a pet. That's it.
I have a good landlord too, they exist. It’s a retired couple, they rent me their cute garage apartment for literally half of what they could charge.
But we can’t rely on people to just be nice. We need to legally protect housing as a human right and stop using housing as an investment opportunity.
@@zhonguocha Fully agree with everything you just said.
@@daniellong3194 A good and moral landlord is like a good and moral slaveowner. Yeah, there's definitely a spectrum from abjectly cruel and evil to kindly and understanding, and it's a lot better for someone to be on the latter end than the former, but the entire institution they're partaking in is still fundamentally immoral just in itself regardless of how nice the people involved are.
"They shouldn't sign the contract if they're too stupid to represent themselves in court"
Honey, that has nothing to do with intelligence. Not everyone goes to law school. Whether I study quantum physics or flip burgers I need a lawyer the same way I need a doctor. I'm not gonna perform heart surgery on myself.
Some people have truly rotten souls.
My thought when I saw that part was, “Yeah, because single parents with multiple children working more than one job are going to have the time or resources to do all the research they’d need to.” This guy learned what he needed to in school, on the job, and over time. Most don’t have that ability.
Their contempt for their fellow countrymen and women borders on pathological. The US military probably treats the people of occupied countries with more respect. I don't want to imagine what this country will look like in another twenty years if we continue on this trajectory.
As someone who is in law school and has taken Property and Contracts, American property and contract law is *complicated*, and it's understandable that people don't understand everything about them. That's what lawyers are for. Fuck the guy who said that in the video.
I would also love to hear what these "stupid" people are supposed to do instead. Die?
It is even worse than that. Those contracts are written to be intentionally confusing.
I remember a story from some years ago, a guy who worked in a legal department printed up the Multi-Story (thing was like 15 to 20 feet long) terms and services for a digital app, and when he carefully read through it... there were spelling mistakes. Because the point wasn't to make a coherent legal document, but to make a document so impenetrable no one would bother to even read it.
So, really, what he is saying is "you are too stupid to not be confused when we are intentionally trying to confuse and mislead and even just flat out lie to you." Which... is really telling, ain't it?
My dad has owned a trailer park (with 2 apartments attached to his home) since the 70s. He worries a lot about raising the rent because he's afraid people can't afford it. We had to raise the rent this year though just to cover the increased costs of the insurance and taxes. The rent is still about half the price of the market and just barely breaks even (except in years with big repairs), but the tenants have been there forever.
My dad ended up homeless as a teenager in the 50s and ended up living in the car wash where he worked until a little old lady offered him a room in her boarding house in exchange for helping her mow the grass and keep the place tidy. He's 81 now and is baffled by this housing bubble.
your dad is a hero. I work as a housing specialist for low income families and you have no idea just how much your dad’s lack of greed has improved his tenants life, mental health, and security. I don’t use the term hero lightly, his actions can really go a long way.
Oh goodness, however could your saintly landlord father be rid of the accursed insurance and taxes? By...not owning those homes? By...selling them to other folks who would then pay those taxes (oh wait, the tenants already paying those taxes, they're just paying through your father). Your father is making money, or he wouldn't be doing it.
@@mnschoen My dad owns ONE home, his home. He gets offers from slumlord investors weekly. If he sells, he'd have to move out of the house he's lived in for 50 years, leave his friends and neighbors, and none of those investors are going to keep the rent reasonable for the tenants. He's actually a part of HIS community. And do you want to see his taxes because for YEARS he's been subsidizing the rents with his social security income. Raising the rent only makes him break even UNLESS there's a major repair and then he's still subsidizing it. So no, he's not making any money on it, but that's his home, his community and his neighbors.
Good info except I think a court filing does not stay on your "record", but an actual eviction (Writ of Possession by judge & removal from property by Sheriff) may? Please provide your source ASAP. I'm trying to help a renter who feels intimidated by your possibly false statement. Thank you.
One wonders what kind of incompetent do-nothing government allows this sort of idiocy to go on and on, while having the balls to describe itself as a 'democracy.'
I'm 24 years old. I've worked full-time since age 18 and done my best to save my money and spend responsibly, and yet I still live with my parents. The cost of rent for some of the cheapest places in my area is still over half of what I make in a month. I love my family and I'm so grateful for them and that my parents are able and willing to continue to let me live at home, but it still sucks to be a grown adult who can't afford to leave their parents' house.
Make yourself worthy of a higher paying job and you won’t be in that situation anymore. Go to school, learn a trade, etc.
@@tv92taylor Ahh spoken like someone who's not done that shit themselves and got their decent paying job because daddy knew someone. Because that's how fucking jobs work... It doesn't matter what you know, it matters who you know nowadays, that's just the reality.
@@tv92taylor And then when that doesn't work, y'all will come up with another banal excuse for why we're at fault because society screws us.
@tv92taylor People who have trade skills and/or college degrees can have trouble finding affordable places to live. Both things can be true simultaneously. Everyone needs a clean, affordable place to live. It doesn't matter what job or education you have.
I was in that same situation a few years ago (30-ish years old) and my solution was roommates. I moved out with my bro and nephew (one a professor, the other a college student) both of whom are super cool and supportive. Bonus, their rent went down and we could move some place a little nicer with a little more room.
You know we’re in real trouble when John Oliver’s main topic is a fundamental aspect of existence for most people.
And the #1, most expensive survival bill on everyone's list that they absolutely can NOT do without.
America really puts the Lord back in Landlord. It's like having a license to hold the peasants hostage.
Are we _really_ sure we aren't living in a Feudal system just because they don't flash the fancy titles in their names?
We are in real trouble. A horror show.
The more troubling thing is when you rewatch all his old episodes of serious problems we faced with solutions that we're still dealing with today, because a small amount of rich, bible thumping dicks call the shots.. Im not optimistic this is going to be addressed either
This is seriously some ruthless levels of totalitarian oppression of the poor and middle class, & yet they've managed to trick so many poor trump cultists into voting against their best interests and pro rich policies thinking one day it'll apply to them, its so stupid
the irony is this clown informs you on "current" topics. you will be repeating
whole heartedly his words in conversations at work, with friends..
Olivers net is 35 million?
colbert 75, Trevor 100..
you are a lemming.
My boyfriend and I own a rental property- we bought it 3 years ago. A single mom, her kid, and her disabled mother lives there. We've installed handicap updates and done some much needed foundation repairs. It's a large 3 bedroom home. She pays $800 a month- the same price she was paying when we bought it. We REFUSE to raise her rent when we have the ability to eat these cost increases a little better than she does. I don't understand how people can be so cold hearted and greedy.
Now, why don't you sell her the property for $800 a month instead of being a f*cking parasite and praising yourself??
Please hang on to that awesome humanity you have and don't ever let go of it
Just in case no one has said it to you lately, thank you for that kindness. I live in Austin and its stupid rare to hear about a landlord having that kind of consideration for their tenants.
You are one of the good ones 🥺
I had an absolutely wonderful landlord before I bought my home (I'd probably never have been able to purchase a home had he not been a kind and reasonable person). It's refreshing to see there are some good landlords out there, and I comment you for treating your tenants with kindness.
And do not forget scammers: People who advertise seemingly affordable rental units, only to make you pay a down payment to see it (claiming they are out of tow and coming to show it is very expensive to them) and then ghosting you. I almost got caught in one of those scams, before my husband told me the truth. Yes, here in Germany we have the same issue...
well... that's crap. didn't know that was a thing
We really need a Rent: Part 2!
That attorney who screams about people not knowing their legal rights should get disbarred. It's literally your job as an attorney to inform people of their legal rights, and not scream why they haven't been to law school before.
Right?! From that same logic, anyone who hires him is stupid because they don’t know the laws and need his guidance.
"These people that are "too stupid" to have gone to law school? Fuck 'em!"
Good LORD, what a goddamn asshole. Never mind that a lot of these people probably WOULD have *LOVED* to go to law school, but literally couldn't fuckin' AFFORD it because those rents are too goddamn high!
thats like me (an engineer) complaining about people not knowing how to design circuits when designing the circuits and explaining whats happening is literally one of the main things about my job lol.
John Oliver effect plz plz do ur thing
It's actually plain and rude manipulation. While "Ignorance of The Law" is no excuse it hardly applies to *every* law, some reasonability is supposed to be involved. Then state of free legal representation in civil cases is neither common nor can be derived, and quite logically people that cannot afford to pay their rent (including: "because of its exorbitance") cannot afford paid lawyer too...
Returning to what the guy have said: he provides "a reason" (or at least words sounding as one) and he act angry (appearing legitimate and warranted) both a psychological tools that reinforce own standpoint regardless of its validity. I mean seriously, that guy is accusing people of being too stupid (and not sufficiently legally competent) to do business with him and his clients, which is also coincidentally number 1 preferred excuse of swindlers and scammers of every variety...
Ah the good old "well you should know what your rights are!" Argument coming from a lawyer, a person who studied law for half a decade full-time, and has a full-time job in the same field, telling others, with completely different day jobs, they should be able to do the same things he does. It never gets old, does it? 😒
Same vibe as a doctor being mad that people keep asking him about the mole that keeps getting bigger. "You should know what's wrong with you!"
He is a real knob
Yeah like as someone who got a law degree i was dumbfounded at this guy. Like we go to law school for three years of the most intensive study of our lives and then have to pass a two day long exam to get licensed. And this guy thinks a layman should be punished for not knowing rights that it took him three years of school to learn? Like yeah I get that once you understand contracts they can seem really simple but damn don't forget the work it took to get to that point. like bro if anyone could do that shit it wouldnt require a specialized degree and years of schooling rigorous enough to push some people to the breaking point.
I feel like just saying "Well if everyone should know their rights before signing contracts then why are landlords allowed a lawyer?" would take all the wind out of his sail.
"Well you should know what your rights are"
Okay, then how would layers have jobs?
The comments for this video where people share their personal experiences and views from all over the world has been one really good learning experience Thank you!
Landlords really are just the last remnant of feudalism. You pay someone a huge portion of your life work and value, simply to have a place to stay while they do the bare minimum to protect you and reap insane rewards. Landlords never suffer financially, but they are morally bankrupt.
sorry but private, mom-pop landlords DO suffer financially. You have no idea how awful tenants can be. They don't pay, trash the place, heat with the windows open and then disappear, leaving you with the heating bill, a.s.o.,a.s.o. I rent out my house and barely make enough to upkeep maintenance and property taxes. And that's alright for me but I could not live of it, just having a job to earn my money. I'm VERY diligent however, to whom I rent it because of the bad experiences in the past.
True. A lot of the good landlords are decent people. The problem comes when properties are bought up by corporations or real estate companies. Hence your “land lord” as seen in these clips isnt actually a person, but a company looking simply for profit. As he said here they jack up rents to inflate market value to make themselves more profits.
The worst thing about this is that rent prices NEVER go down. Home prices fluctuate, so people can sometimes afford them if they wait, but rent will never ever decrease once it is raised. So if you're stuck in the renting cycle and the rent raises, you can't even save a dime, as your rent keeps going up so you'll never be able to afford a home and these investment buyers are purposely making that the future so they can continue to get your money for life.
Could not have been summarized better.
Well, when people left SF in large amounts during the pandemic rent prices did actually go down in a lot of the city. It went from "Are you insane!" to about "Really? Holy crap I guess".
Capitalism cuts both ways and I not saying that other options are better fyi.
No it does not. My wife and I moved into our apartment in Nov of 2012 for $1090 a month. It is now $1910 and we've outgrown it so we're moving a new one which is $2750. OUCH!!! We are unable to buy a house because we've only been given a mortgage loan of $392,000, which can't get us anything of value.
@@JoeSimonsen and that's only because the pandemic forced them to lower it🥲. Without the buffer of the pandemic, renters have no more protection in place to keep us housed if we're forced out of the market. At least home owners can remain in the properties that have foreclosed on for the next year, maybe 2.
"We are clearly willing to prioritize housing in the budget but not for the people who need it most" covers almost all public policy in the US. Privatizing the gains and socializing the losses for the wealthy and saying fuck off for everyone else is what the US does best.
THIS ^^^
Greed destroys everything.
Not only for the US, it is how democracy works after ww2 imo. You allow concentration of wealth to spiral out of control, that wealth then needs protection from the poor and the only way to solidify it is to legalise it through changing the legal framework (ie buying politicians). They become a tool for the wealthy, just like the houses and cars they buy.
If eviction were made illegal it would make the economy work for everyone
Ultimate privatization means each family owns the home they are in and that’s it
@@letmewatchmyshows How would you decide which families get which homes? Some are nicer than others. And what about homes that people build for themselves? Would you have to give away a home that you built?
rent should be 30% of what you make? That was the funniest joke I've heard on LastWeekTonight in a while
lol
Thank you, John Oliver. I have lived thru these judgment nightmares for years. People can be so cruel and horrible.
Who else is HEATED that our grandparents could work part time and buy a home and now we are dealing with this?
And it is clearly just because we are too lazy to work as hard as they did, right? I mean, you just need to get a job and work hard and then everything will work.
*It hurts that this is barely even sarcasm of what they tend to say*
@@Chaosmancer7 spot on.
boomers went to college and bought a home for the combined price of less than a brand new pickup truck nowadays and they have the gall to complain like this.
My favorite thing is their ignorance. I had to explain to my parents and other relatives about the cost of housing, cost of living, and wages. They didn't believe till their kids college tuition, car costs, and mortgage started to weigh down on them. 🙄
White people could, black people often still couldn't as they were prohibited by the FHA from buying in the suburbs, and also because of legal housing discrimination.
Boomers are so out of touch it's unreal.
"They're too fucking stupid" the absolute *audacity* of this man. Legal rights aren't discussed in high school, only in specific areas of college, and many people are too exhausted making sure they can pay the exorbitant rent rates being posted to be able to self educate further. Not to mention that lawyers are expensive. When you turn housing into an investment and people into assets, you lose humanity and democracy.
Also his full-time job only exists because people's legal rights are often obscure, complicated, and/or easily misunderstood.
Especially when it's lawyers like him who've made renting so much more complicated than "I live here, I pay you"
Hey, welcome to capitalism. Profits over people! SCOTUS says so!!! Heil Trump!!!
Yeah it's appalling that a lawyer of all people would make a statement like that. That would be like if a doctor was publicly lamenting about how people deserved to die from a medical condition because they were too stupid to know how to live a healthy lifestyle. Rights are rights and lives are lives no matter how aware people may be about them.
Not too mention...he didn't sound that intelligent himself. Just because you are a lawyer doesn't mean you are intelligent, and there are many types of intelligence, some of which (like emotional intelligence) we ought to emphasize more.
There is a perfect storm forming in America. Inflation, sever drought in the farm belt, the pandemic, food shortages, diesel fuel and heating fuel shortages, baby formula shortage, shortage of and price of available cars, the price of housing. It's all coming together and could lead to real disaster toward the end of this year.(or sooner)
I think trading is easier with proper guidance, especially from a professional it really helps reduce the chances of running into losses. All thanks to Mr. Larry Kent Nick He changed my life, I was able to pay off my mortgage
@ Larry Kent Nick Trading
Man here I was ready to quote "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Misérables but the replies are full of crypto shills who see the economic struggles caused by the greed of the wealthy and think, "Y'know what would solve this? More greed! Let's instead throw our money into an ecosystem that's explicitly meant to further empower the wealthy!"
If we don't eat the rich theyll eat us first and claim to not be at fault that it's "just business"
Also the ENTIRE COMMENT thread before me is a crypto scam front, report and block
@Stephanie Jacobs lmao holy shit made my day
That Kissenger line aged magnificently
Glad he is gone
The bitch finally quit.
Every now and then I get hit with the realization that I'll never be able to afford a home of my own like my parents did, but now I'm thinking I'll never afford rent for an apartment on my own, no matter how hard I work. Luckily, I have a good relationship with my parents and I'm allowed to keep living at home, but it would be nice to live independently.
If eviction were made illegal it would make the economy work for everyone
Me too. I'm priced out. The lowest rent where I live is over 1000 and that includes no utilities or additional fees and charges. God forbid you want to live somewhere without roaches.
My husband and I are in the same situation. We moved back in with my parents last year. We're in our mid-30s and trying to start a family, but there's no way we could live on our own. Very thankful my parents not only are willing to let us stay but actively want us to.
You might be priced out in your state, I know I am....but you might consider owning investment property you can afford in another state while you live at home.....that's my plan.
@@jrbedolla10 you’d be part of the issue
Got a 1.5% raise, cost of living raised 6%, my rent was raised 8.7%.....what am I to do? Oh and then the landlord just decided to not renew my lease so he can get more from a new person. Yep you got it I actually lived in a "low income" housing unit, but now I can't afford "low income" housing.
Sorry brother -- sending you love this fuckkng sucks.
Vote red for politicians that are smart with tax dollars and be smart with your leftover money too
Damn dude I live in a storage house i pay off, like cheap tiny house living
@@greenwave819 since when are Republicans smart with tax dollars... they destroy the national debt every time they are in office
@@greenwave819 What is a single financially smart thing a single republican wants to spend tax dollars on?
I live in Southern CA. Our apartment complex was just bought by a corporate owner. They raised rents over $500/month. Now a 2 bedroom, 1 bath (875 sq ft) is now $2,800/month.
My wife and I pay $3,200/month for an apartment with the same as ft! This is insane, isn't?
Holy shit.
A huge thanks to this show, for addressing an issue that has been a nightmare for my family. It's ridiculous that someone who works 40+ hours a week can't afford basic life necessities.
Let's give credit to the writers for their amazing "Great Big List of Sad Things" (18:21):
• Getting evicted during chemo
• Dog deaths
• First ten minutes of Up
• Doing improv in your thirties
• Getting dumped by a DJ
• Losing your wedding ring
• When a bird hurt!!!
• The music video to Johnny Cash’s cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”
• The state of Ohio
• Losing your wedding ring at a Medieval Times
• The thought of Ben and J.Lo breaking up again
• When your kid calls the babysitter “mama”
• Trying on jeans in the store
• Finding your wedding ring at Medieval Times, but now you have to joust for it
• Reality television stars unverified on Instagram
• Landlord doesn’t get rent
• Celebrity tweets about a shitty airline experience
• White guy not allowed to rap all the lyrics
I lost my wedding ring in the state of Ohio. So, twice as sad.
White guy not allowed to rap all the lyrics… 🙄..
I'm dead at the jousting thing. btw, some lady posted a trail review and mentioned she lost her earring on a hiking/mtn biking trail and every time I go up on it I try to look for it. I feel bad. But you also shouldn't be wearing good jewelry while biking? but still... I have a conscience. I'm not going to yell at her lol
@@EmpyreanLightASMR You really are a good human bean. A "mensch," as we say in the Jewish lingo. 😘
@@MicheleEngel I didn't want to go there, but that is a racial slur for the hispanic community
I'm a legal aid attorney that gives advice to tenants facing eviction in Cook County, IL and just wanted to comment that this show did a remarkable job of hitting just about all of the issues that tenants encounter on a regular basis as well as identifying some of the most hopeful solutions. Great work! It excites me to see how well you did this, thinking that I can rely well on your research to educate me on subjects I'm less familiar with. And make me laugh.
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There is nothing worse than a tenant who doesn't pay and/or leave. Nightmare!
@@pavelimani There's nothing worse? How about a landlord that doesn't want to understand that people's lives sometimes turn around unexpectedly?
What if your tenant can't pay because of a sudden cancer? You're going to evict him/her, right? Money over human lives.
What you should do is give the tenant a time limit to start paying again and collect the unpaid rent as if it was a loan, with a reasonable interest if you want. But not evict them the first month, give people a chance, god damnit. We should help each other out.
@@snorch6697 It is not a landlord's responsibility to look after your life. Landlords provide a product and incur costs. If you don't pay for the product then landlords are paying for your costs.
@@pavelimani A home is not just a product like jewelry or a restaurant meal, it's a basic human need.
That's why I believe that if you rent homes, you have to be flexible.
You are like the Rush guy in the video. Don't be evil, have compassion. In general a person will pay his rent, always, it's only when they are drowning in life issues that they don't pay rent. And then it's when a simple flexibility on rent payment is needed and what landlords should do.
I'm so thankful that my landlords are renting me a place to live in at a reasonable rate . Inflation is uncomfortable but i'm thankful that my job pays for my life.
You are lucky because rents are going up everywhere . Rent prices rose by 0.8% in june from a month earlier, according to the labor department it is the largest monthly gain since 1986.
@@Natalieneptune469 How can the typical family with average income afford a higher rate+ more expensive home? in my area multi generational home is becoming the norm . Don’t forget to add the inflation which just this week was 9.1 on the CPI , producers index 11.3, it’s going to be a rough ride for sure.
Time will tell how this period will treat people that never save, invest, lived beyond means, paycheck to paycheck, too many kids, too big of home, keeping up with the joneses with FOMO,YOLO, paying alimony, child support, etc
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@@marianparker7502 I raised all my rents at least 30% in the past year. You better hope your landlord doesn't catch on to reality.
such a gift to hear the Henry Kissinger joke after he died
It is absolutely horrifying to think and realize that even with a full time job, you are still on the cusp of being homeless. It's frankly a miracle that the country hasn't collapsed yet under this Investors Hierarchy
I'm guessing it will sooner than we like. Wonder what landlords will do then when their mortgages are due? And the mortgage companies?
@@pamelacass9642 Good point. Let’s hope THEY get pressed
Mhmm. I work 40 hours at double the local minimum wage, and I can't afford a studio apartment.
@@pamelacass9642 Landlords should have mortgages paid off when renting tbh.
Yeah, no one should be struggling to get by in any area of life if they’re working full time. You should, at the very least, be able to cover the basics. But god forbid we raise wages
This is the story I've been waiting him to to report on since the show started. And he didn't disappoint. It was a nightmare finding affordable housing even as far back as the early 2000's for me. In the end, even with two incomes, me and my girlfriend could only find housing supplied by slumlords. I'm now 48, work full-time, and with topped out pay working for a huge company, and have lived in my family's tiny apartment living room for the past TWELVE YEARS because that's all I can afford. Everyone else at my job is paying 50% (OR MORE) on rent alone! You know what's sadder? My family doesn't want me to leave because they can't afford rent without my help. I hate working and living in America. Hate hate hate hate HATE it. This country has made it very clear it simply doesn't want me, but I don't know where else to go.
Maybe you've been looking for housing in the wrong places. I only had to show up one time to get an apartment. I was able to lower my rent. Oh wait, I don't live in the US.
May I ask where exactly you live and what profession you work to still not afford anything?
That’s awful. Hang in there and never give up on opportunities in other places
at what point will the UN let us move under the status of "refugees". when does the political opression/ environmental/ man-made disaster status kick in? im starting to think the UN will not actively challenge the way the US currently treats its most vulnerable citizens.
@@CryptocurrencyInsider very enlightening
1:23 Is this why CZcams recommended I watch this again after a year and a half? 😂
I just started watching this channel but almost exactly 9 months ago, when this video first released, I had to suddenly leave my state because there simply wasn't any affordable housing available. I had been searching for a year or more but only a handful of places would be listed each month and Zillow shows you how many people apply to each listing. Within 24 hours, each listing would have 100s of applicants. Within a week, over 1000. And that was just 1 site - most places list on 2-4 sites. And the prices were NOT worth the quality. I was willing to pay $1200/mo or more for glorified shoeboxes in someone's basement since that's all that was getting listed at the low end.
I was fast approaching my deadline to being homeless, though, and getting into a place had odds on par with winning the lottery so I had to quickly slap together a plan to move to a new state based mostly on whether they had affordable housing available (Just as long as it wasn't some rural buttcrack state that doesn't even teach evolution. I have standards.). This was without having a new job lined up and without having permanent living arrangements lined up. Just drive to a new state and start from scratch in a hotel. The only other option was to move into a hotel in my own state and keep playing the housing lottery while hemorrhaging my savings. Keep in mind, I was full-time employed and making decent money but I was still staring down homelessness...
Anyway, 9 months later and I have a new job and a stable place to live in my new state. It is still absolutely **insane** how much difficulty I had to go through for a basic human necessity, though. I think about just how absolutely insane it is on a regular basis. People shouldn't be fighting so hard and paying so much for crappy 1 bedroom apartments. People need to be able to save money, buy a house, prosper, etc. This is untenable.
Housing/Rent and Healthcare are just two of the many major problems that U.S. continues to miraculously F’ up.
Ireland too. Complete shitshow here.
Yes, Biden is the worst!!!
Well, the main problems can be summed up by: fuck poor people! All hail the rich!
@@1987Liono aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi?
afterall print money endless just to remain illegally in iraq-syria
print money to sponsor artificial civil- direct wars so hillary/albright get cheap gold oil invest in Libya/iraq caused hyperinflation. george bush 14 years ago said he wants ukraine in nato foreshadow f word 2014 coup
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wesley clark foreshadow reveal 2000 to 2012 all rig for kill iraq to syria
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dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too
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The Army Corp of Engineers estimated the cost of fixing the entire water system of Flint, Michigan was between $1-1.5 billion. That was 8 years ago.
It not fucking up. It's working exactly as planned.
Omg. That man delighting in being able to squeeze tenants is the worst of humanity.
Remember that man. That is every parasitic landlord.
First to the guillotine
My landlord; a new realtor, has followed this blueprint step by step, gleefully. I'm scared.
These people wanna crush (physically & financially) many of us out, in their own thirsts for power
Thats how capitalism, you buy product and you sell for highest price or outsource, you can't mention socialism/communism around these folks. I would hate to buy property/home to rent out, cause you'll have crybabies on the other end, expecting a free cheap handout lol; plus you have to deal with the mental rejects which will damage your property, which I seen plenty of, which I been around almost killed..
That christian is what you call a religious fascist, following supply side jesus; hes a good example of these grifters that follow prosperity gospel..
As someone who is 18, this hurts the most.
I personally don't have a great family, I couldn't afford college, and covid took a massive hit on my income. I'm desperately trying to find a way to move out and live on my own but there are so many places that are way too expensive for me to rent.
I plan to stick where I am for another year and work my ass off to get as much money as I can so I can get an apartment, house, tennent, whatever so I can move out.
Wishing you abundance and safety ✨
Join the military. Seriously, that's how I got my start and it put me way ahead of my peers.
Dont join the military. The few that survive war come either severely injuried or mentally scarred for life @@Aboutaprincess
Im in the same situation, but it hurts that i dont have a choice, and i have to rent even if it means not having any money at all.
After getting my second bachelors to finally secure maybe a middle class job, I’m still very poor and live with my parents!! Thanks America !
College is a scam. It's a major part of the problem. Went to a Big Ten school and it basically was a diploma mill. Huge mistake.
Stop thinking of yourself as "middle class" and start thinking of yourself as working class. There aren't 3 economic classes there are 2. You either own the means of production and reap the rewards from other peoples hard work and are the capitalist owner class, or you sell your time and expertise for a wage are are thus working class. The whole farce of upper/middle/lower class is to keep all of us workers divided so the owners have an easier time conquering us.
I'm a public school teacher. I was bringing home about $3,000/month this past year, after deductions. I could find no affordable 1-bedroom apartment in town. Yet, there were abundant luxury apartments being built EVERYWHERE. Rent for them was upward of $1,500. I ended up living in shared housing the whole year, living in an Airbnb with five other people who likewise could not find an affordable place. This was one reason I left my job there and am moving elsewhere in the country this year. It's an area with a very strong NIMBY persuasion, which basically eliminates affordable housing in this town. Not a single teacher I know from my school could afford their own place in town: they either shared with housemates, were married to someone who made more money, or drove in from far away. Other places in the country are hemorrhaging teachers too, for similar reasons. Teacher pay is a different conversation for another time, but my point here is that I am comparatively fortunate in this -- and yet I was struggling. If I, with no dependents, on a professional salary, could not find housing, people, people with less privilege and more dependents (spouses, kids, parents, etc.) have it even worse, and I am angry on their behalf.
You could think about getting a part time job. Teachers have a lot of spare time on their hands, so it's ok. /s
@@jf2176 Funny. You mean in the evening when they are cleaning, grading and making new lessons ? Or when their families need them? What spare time do you mean? Some do have extra jobs, but not because there is an abundance of extra time but in spite of not having it.
@@carinakamangoesmael7669 The "/s" is short-hand for "sarcasm".
It’s a shame. My family has been teachers for generations and wholeheartedly believed for a long time I was destined to be a great teacher as well. But given how teachers are falling further and further into the lower class I just can’t. Education is declining every year and it’s sad. Capitalism is ruining our society
i say it all the time buuut PITCHFORKS
I work with homeless families and it’s a lot easier to get an individual landlord to give people a break than a property management agency. Individuals tend to just ask for a deposit and first month’s rent. Those rental agencies do a credit check, want 2x the deposit, and require your income to be 3x the monthly income.
Finding one can be tough though
@@Paulpoission yeah they are few and far between
That’s what happened when my friend and I were looking. Because it was run by a corporation even though we could reliably pay, they said we didn’t make enough.
@@allison257 unfortunately these types of “love letters” swaying landlords or sellers often result in discrimination, either through conscious or unconscious bias.
For example another family could have loved the place just as much, but if they didn’t speak English as their first language, they might not be able to express it in a letter the same way.
Landlords do that as well. Mine did, but rented to me regardless of the fact I don't make 3x the rent. We talked about it and they liked me. I haven't failed them and I won't because they took a chance and treated me like a human being rather than a dollar sign.
This is EXACTLY what most people I know are going through and I thank you for shining a light on this.
I work 55 hours per week and two jobs and am forced to camp outside Tucson. Can’t even afford a studio. And before everyone assumes I have mental health issues and am irresponsible, I have 6 years of college, (paid my loans, never declared bankruptcy ( rare), no addictions whatsoever (extremely rare), take care of my body (extremely rare), etc. I work hard, am responsible and play by the rules. Sad.
as a student in denmark, i spend a little over 50% of my income on rent, taxes etc. but unlike in the US, my only other expense is food and the occasional rolle of toiletpapier. i have around 10-20% of my income left, to put in my savings each month.
i really feel for the people who struggle so much, i hope it gets better.
So besides lodging, boarding, taxes, groceries and leisure.. what other major expenses do others have¡!
It won’t. We will become homeless then have society shun us as homeless.
@@sailaab health insurance ...
@@MrHackclan nope universal healthcare
@UC7VSDJgapW8n08yMM_E-yNg Denmark. Probably has reliable public transport.
In 2019, my rent was $1100/month for a 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment in a safe, diverse, middle-class neighborhood with average amenities and extremely old fixtures. My rent went up $258/month just this year and I'm now at $1600 for 2022. I asked for upgrades to my cabinets and to paint the second bedroom and was basically told to fuck off. This isn't sustainable and if my rent goes up again next year, I won't be able to afford anything near a major city in the entire state. I feel so hopeless and rental companies are bleeding their tenants dry without offering anything to justify the dramatic increases. Fuckers...
ditto. I'm going to rent out my second bedroom sometime this year hopefully (it's only 50 dollars more for the 2nd bed room and bathroom)
I'm right there with you. My rent is going up again in August. Normally I can negotiate a longer lease so I can keep the rent locked in at a fixed rate, but not this time. They know they can increase the rent again every time the lease comes up for renewal, so they're keeping the lease terms as short as possible.
fuckers indeed!!
@@Remerdre rent always goes up.
This is when for profit companies get into to rentals as an “investment” and “capitalism” is at play. It becomes bleeding people dry. Only make $2,000 a month? Great, rent is only $1600. It’s all about making everyone poor while capitalism is unchecked by the federal government.
I like John Oliver and I enjoys his breakdown of the problem,his calls to action are reasonable and actionable, but he missed the biggest thing I was thinking of while watching this:Tenant Unions. Tenant Unions weren't mentioned, but by uniting together all the small renters together can have a bigger impact than any one alone.
The more I watch this show, the more thankful I am to live outside of the US.
I believe John's team spends most of their work days mumbling "holy sh*t" as they go through trails of documents and series of interviews depicting what people are living through today.
John and the writers don't really research the topic.
This is a Tonight show show formula.
1)Blame something because it makes a profit
2) Say how the government should regulate said something
3) Make simplistic nuances and use sound bites to make whatever he is against sound almost clownish
4) Not believe a word he himself says, Collect a check and go back to his million dollar apartment overlooking central park, while his followers eat up whatever he says at face value.
@Mike Dalby well documented fact? That makes zero sense. I could dissect your argument without even trying.
John fails on this subject every time, there is plenty of cheap housing rotting away in Utica, Syracuse, Malone, Buffalo, Detroit, etc. But John continues to push the idea that ruins our cities, the idea that we all are entitled to live in a fun metro area, or sunbelt city, exactly where corporate landlords are operating and causing the problem.
@Mike Dalby Moscow, Singapore, Mumbai, every city in the world is overpriced and full of sharks. Do you intend to overturn the laws of physics and demand? How about use Marxist policies like rent control, which lead to rotting buildings and my loud drug dealing neighbors who can never get evicted?
I'm not sure where you live but I was forced out of Buffalo due to a lack of jobs plus rising rent prices back in 2016. Last I checked it hasn't gotten better
Here in Sweden we have a renter's union. They provide legal help, negotiate rents, provide information and can even help people financially.
We'd probably be fine without it due to other regulations, but it certainly helps a lot of people.
The politicans recentley abolished rent control so it will go down hill from here
Too many people in the US have been convinced that anything associated with the word "union" is bad.
@@annri8248 I don't know where you live mate, but it doesn't seem to be Sweden. The idea of partially removing rent control was debated here a year ago and ended up with the prime minister being ousted.
yeah and look at the crime these people are committing. Sweden at this point is more dangerous than Syrian war zones.
@@TheQuantumWave Too many people in the US are extremely ignorant.
I hate the lawyer shouting about tenants being too stupid to understand a contract. Gee, if only there was someone they could go to to help read through and understand the specifics of a contract… like a lawyer.
1:32 perfect timing
Mostly all of these episodes pertain to us in some way, but often distantly.
Today this one just made me want to cry. I'm tired of moving every. single. year. desperately trying to find somewhere to live.
SAME. Freakin’ same. We can’t even have a home…
I feel for you. It sucks and no one should have to be forced to go thru this.
what part of the country you in? Sounds like u need to move to some place cheap.
You can’t move some place cheaper if you don’t have the money to give up your job, set aside a portion of your income to see your friends/family, or get the transportation to move somewhere else. And if every area is unaffordable then there is no where to go.
If eviction were made illegal it would make the economy work for everyone
I literally brought my mom out to TN from CA to get her to a place where she could afford housing without needing to worry about insane rental prices. Within the last 6 months, she had to find a new place after her apartment decided not to renew her lease (that way they can push out lower income tenants to get in new ones at a significantly higher rate) and found ourselves sifting through property rates that matched the CA prices I brought her out here to avoid, prices she couldn’t afford is despite the fact she has an income that is literally double the minimum wage for the state.
How is it a minimum wage to live if it’s literally impossible to live off double it?
All the minimum wage means is “If I could pay you less, I would”. They want your mom to pull herself up by her bootstraps and get a second or third job. That’s what’s great about Murica, is if you need the money, you can work yourself to death and then not have to worry about it.
Because they don't care, and if they _do_ care, it's only because they're sadists who actually _enjoy_ the suffering they cause. If you'll excuse me for giving a literal answer to a rhetorical question.
I think that's what people should do and I respect you for getting your mom out to TN. Rents are high in CA because it's a popular place to go, especially for people that have a lot of money to pay those high rents. If you want lower rents just move somewhere cheaper. The only way the prices will go down is when demand goes down from people deciding to leave.
I live in TN and watched this exact same thing just happen
That's because all of this bullshit is working as intended, those with power and wealth juicing any person they are willing to dehumanize because of their income or race, or both.
That Kissinger life expectancy joke was brilliant!
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Having suffered abusive LL's who poisoned our air and got away with it over a dozen years, I've given up , in the end GREED triumphs not law. Nor justice.
It's really Darwinism at its finest?
It is hilarious that a lawyer who represents landlords in order to navigate the law in their benefit, is criticizing renters for not knowing enough about the law to protect their interests.
The sad part is that the system of him trying to help clients doesn’t make it any easier for his part. I get it! But that cursing during a meeting and laughing at tenants that need help made my stomach turn smdh.
@@rvegas81 He's a sad, sorry excuse who scarcely passes for a human being.
Good point.
@@paradoxicalcanons he's a perfect example of why the soulless demonic lawyer cliche persists.
That guy absolutely deserves to lose his home and experience life on the street like all the people he has screwed over in his disgusting career.
No one will see this in the sea of comments but I'd like to share my story. When my family was evicted I was 8 years old. The landlord paid her law enforcement family members to come and terrorize us out of the house and throw all of our belongings into the street (breaking most of it on purpose). She recorded the entire thing (this was 2001) and I remember her laughing at my parents and my older siblings. Her laughter is something I vividly remember even today. My parents didn't know their rights and while I was fortunate enough to provide housing for them now (shout out to the Marine Corps for providing me the opportunity to move my family upward socioeconomically with the VA home loan) I pity those who can't. That experience as a child is something I hold onto as an adult. If you're experiencing homelessness/hunger/threat of eviction I wish you nothing but good fortunate, wealth, home security, and happiness. My goal in life now is to provide other disenfranchised individuals affordable housing and I hope some day to make an impact so no other person needs to experience living in your car/homelessness/housing insecurity.
The only reason my wife and I have a home is due to the VA. It is telling that it required my wife to give up 7yrs of her life and have lasting health effects from the military as an exchange for housing, but I'm eternally grateful for what the VA has done for us.
God that's just awful to hear. I am so glad your family is doing better now, but that will never change the fact that what your landlord did was terrible and inhumane...
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I am 66 years old and have worked full time my entire life. I've never been evicted, but I've been priced out of a lot of apartments. I raised a child alone and had to put things back together after my husband died with no life insurance. Because I now get social security survivor benefits that pays my rent for my one bedroom apartment, that's under 900 ft², the rent is $1,338 a month. That's almost my entire social security check. In 2 17, I was 72 hours away from closing on a beautiful condo,where the mortgage would have been only 1,000 a month when I was fired from my job with a school district where I had been for 17 years because of false accusations made by a co-worker. Now the housing market is so bad that even with a VA loan, I can't afford it. I'm hoping that the housing market will crash soon so that maybe I might have a chance of buying some place. I just want to die in my own home. I don't think that's too much to ask.
It is very telling about the US's priorities that the institution seemingly most capable of fixing poor people's issues is the military doing it in exchange for service.
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My mother:
Has one (1) tenant.
Is in the former category.
The rental house she owns is in another state. So, what they do is that when something goes wrong - like when some pipe had to be replaced - he informs her, deals with it, and sends her the bill/invoice for reimbursement.
He gets: costs that haven’t increased, shelter, and prompt fixes.
She gets: a little extra income, the convenience of not needing to find a new tenant or head there for every problem, and maintenance being conducted.
1:30 Hah! That glitch has been fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ah so thats why it appeared in my recommendations.
An eviction notice was brought against me when I left my apartment for 3 months to care for my dying mother- I left my roommate in the apartment while I was gone and she wasn’t on the lease so they attempted to evict me. I spent 10k for a lawyer, fought my eviction and WON and still couldn’t rent in the city. I was blacklisted for 7 years they told me. My husband ended up being the primary leaser on any apartments we rented. The whole thing is garbage.
That's tragic. Sad.
I mean, you violated the terms of the lease. Which you signed and agreed to. You would be pissed if the landlord disregarded terms of the lease too
When will good people finally start fighting back against the greedy. Violence is never the first option but it definitely needs to be on the list
@@bidmcms3 dying mother.
@@bidmcms3 Depends on the reasoning, princess.
If the landlord was legally obligated to return my calls but literally CARED FOR THEIR DYING MOTHER instead, you don’t think I’d behave like a civilized human being and cut them some slack??
Is THIS really the hill you’re gonna die on? Pathetic
Dude... this is so personal. My dad literally just faced this, he is recovering from back surgery and my stepmother passed away in January, leaving my two half siblings, one of whom is neurodivergent and deaf, who can function but will likely never be able to live completely independently. The other is in high school. They have built a life in that home through almost 15 years. Their landlord came to them a month after ANOTHER major health issue (and our Healthcare system, of course, has been a whole other level of disgusting) and basically told him the plan was to renovate the house (fixing problems that he hasn't taken care of in 5 years btw) and hiking up the rent almost 150%, if my dad were to stay there. He also knew he couldn't afford this, and with his back, wouldn't be able to move many of his possessions, and was trying to make money off that too. During the covid shutdown, while my stepmother was getting chemo and her fucking TONGUE removed, and my dad was out of work with a herniated disc in his back, his state suspended evictions and he wasn't required to pay rent. He still did. His disability checks went to keep his family housed, bc he felt that he was trying to honor his agreement. He is a good person, who tries to do the best he can every day. He loves his kids and I have seen him sacrifice for them, and for me. He works hard, and has done so since he was a teenager. If our system were, in any way, truly based on merit, he would be living in a mansion and fucking Ted POS Cruz would be in a cardboard box. I pass homeless people every day in the city where I work, I've seen people out there without shoes in winter and I want to help them. Thinking about trying to set up a coat drive at work or something. But that's not enough. People deserve housing. Can we please. Just let people have a place to live? If we're going to all be forced into society cuz let's face it none of us, regular Joes and the wealthy alike, most of us are not cutting ties and just going out to live in the woods ok I've lived without running water or A/C or heat or refrigeration or proper insulation and idgaf if you think you're some survivalist or outdoors/hunter or whatever, I don't see you living out there permanently. So if we're gonna do this, we need to commit to simply ensuring the basic needs of every person. Once we do that, I literally do not care how much money people make. But rather than our grotesque worship of the over-indulged pursuit of wealth and the vessels through which this greed is portrayed, our top priority should be to carve out the rot that is poverty and ignorance. Greedy behavior should not be rewarded with luxury. For a country that claims Christian values, we sure don't seem to recognize these glaring sins in our society. Rant over.
Exactly this. Thank you for writing this.
You ignored Climate Change in your long whine, and, that what's killing Earthlings.
This one hit me harder than most episodes too.. I'm sorry you went through that.
PREACH
Deaf and neurodivergent people can work and have fulfilling lives
Powerful and leading. Congratulations once more, and I feel like saying thank you to the LWT team even though I am Australian - more power to you!
In my opinion, these land lords who's livelyhoods are based off of raising rents and such, they are leeches on society, they don't want to get real jobs but incessantly complain that tenant (who do all the hard work for them) aren't open to being extorted.
It seems you have a very tenuous grasp on reality
We need to pass legislation that breaks up these large rental conglomerates. These conglomerates make rents so high, because they buy up most of the housing stock in towns and cities. It's a huge problem in college towns too. Large rental conglomerates and universities buy most of the housing stock, and what's left is too expensive to rent and buy.
Switzerland has a good renter system. If we did what they do it wouldn't be so bad
There is also the issue of having all real-estate becoming speculation properties and no one actually living there. Also in places like New York or San Francisco when you want to build a new building you need to offer a certain amount of low income housing. In San Fran they start demanding so much that the project becomes economically impossible so nothing gets built. In NY you can do it in other places outside the city. Also to build that you can't build medium income housing or you won't be profitable so you can only build higher end housing to turn a profit and those are often bough by investment groups. So now the cheap housing is too far away, there is no middle class rents avaliable and all the new properties are owned by investment groups.
Yeah they need to at least put a cap on what % of a neighborhood can be owned by huge companies. Overall it's small, only 2% of houses are owned by these big companies, but in some areas its much higher, there are neighborhoods in some areas where they own 40% of the houses. But if things continue at this rate I could see them owning like 50% of the houses in a few decades.
@@aeis3007 it's awful. Communism is bad, but so is this system.
why would you "punish" success? /s
My landlord is one of the decent ones, and he is an absolute needle in a haystack. He charges us less than half of the market rates, and he's still paying off the mortgage. As far as I can tell he pays himself a small stipend to mow the lawn, but nothing else. The gratitude I feel about having an affordable place to live is frankly unhealthy, but I know that most renters in my neighborhood are paying at least twice what we are. No John Oliver segment should make me want to bake cookies for my landlord but here wr are
Good luck and hoping for longevity here for you. Be careful and not fully comfortable I’m so sorry to say. It sounds crazy but I feel so much more fear for people in your situation because the sudden change of pricing can be utterly destabilizing if you were top of your budget already. Just…have back up plans please for any unexpected change.
That’s the way it should be. Rental properties shouldn’t be get rich quick schemes. Landlords shouldn’t be allowed to charge much more than their own mortgage on the property is worth.
@@The93Vector Even then your affordable rent still relies on the kindness of a fellow consumer. If he decides he needs more of anything, its most likely going to come from you.
That's one person. All landlords are scum though
Dude.. bake cookies for him. Just do it. Provide incentive to his kindness so he never goes corrupt.
Currently watching this while I do not have the $830 for my 1 bedroom apartment that was due 3 days ago. My neighborhood is currently being gentrified. Every time they tear down an old building and put up fancy new apartments, rent increases in the entire neighborhood by at least $40/month. I am planning on buying an RV to live in next year and parking it on a friend's property. A lot of my neighbors do not have the money or credit score to do something like that. The number of unhoused people in my neighborhood has doubled in less than a year.
I work at a homeless shelter where I help house people and this is infuriatingly accurate of what all of our clients go through. Housing is a human right.
I'd like to challenge other landlords with this: When Covid started, before any moritoriums happened, we told our tenants that we were not evicting anyone for late rent. We have not raised rents on existing tenants in years. We'll adjust between, but only to account for the difference in property taxes. We fix problems as promptly as we can. Our rents are not set based on how much profit we could possibly squeeze out of a place, but on a reasonable profit based on our costs.
Our turnover rate is very low. Every property has had some late rents, but they literally all catch it up as soon as they can, and they prioritize it. I've helped tenants get housing aid rather than losing the tenants because turnover is expensive, and angry turnover is even more expensive.
What dose that get us? Well, our last turnover involved an apartment so clean we were able to rent it out immediately, there were zero hours between tenants. It gets us tenants invested in their homes, which we let them paint and put pictures up in. Every once in a while there's a major repair expense, but overall we still make money, without feeling dirty about it.
If you've figured out a way to not feel guilty for actively sabotaging poor people and evicting people with cancer? You've lost your soul.
We had a period of months where people were struggling to pay. One tenant didn't manage to get entirely caught up for a year. And then they did get caught up. Completely. If we'd evicted? We'd have had to eat all of the loss, because most people who flat out can't pay rent are pretty near judgment proof. Why ruin someone's life? Being homeless isn't going to help them get you the money they owe.
ALL of them caught up. And without me being a dick about it.
Hey buddy really cool story. you are still a terrible parasite standing in an incredibly long line of evil men and women that stretches back thousands of years. Your contribution to humanity is forever stained. But good speech or whatever
It's honestly the bankers fault, they have not shown any leniency and sh!t rolls downhill
I'd argue all of your tenants eventually catch up BECAUSE you're not a dick about it.
Safe and affordable housing shouldn't be up to your whims, but well done for being a decent human being when you're legally allowed to be a monster instead
have you ever encountered tenants who seem to make no effort in paying late rent?
Man, it’s almost like designing & maintaining a system intended to maximize extraction of profit from working people to the idle rich at the cost of literal human lives ain’t the best way to organize a society.
Huh, can you explain why?
Lol
@@aluisious because it's inevitable that, as the wage gap widens, the lower class will come together to rise up and rebel. Like ants, one is easily squished, but millions working together will win.
whoa whoa whoa whoa. What.
Hold on that can't be right. Everyone said that capitalism was the bEsT? Did........did they lie?
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@@notkerrystolcenberg so Karl Marx was right?
I don't know why I keep watching this. The truth hurts so bad but its good to know someone can put it into perspective. I proudly pay for HBO to support John and this show just so I can have one source of truth. As a society, we really need to do better.
Outstanding coverage of this dire situation. I speak from experience.
I used to work for a housing authority in the Section 8 department. I think that there is SOME stigma attached to tenants with Section 8 vouchers, but a bigger reason is that often landlords will not accept Section 8 vouchers because it makes them have to meet standards at yearly inspections that they don't want to deal with. The Section 8 inspection checklist is pretty comprehensive and many landlords don't want to invest that kind of time and money keeping their properties up to standard. Yes, that's reprehensible, but SO not surprising. They'd rather be slum lords. So much easier.
This is why Section 8 should be killed off and switch to UBI/negative income tax.
I’m a housing specialist at a PHA and I agree, it’s so fucked up how opposed they are to basic HQS
@@theBear89451 definitely not what I’d take away from this lol, section 8 saves lives, mostly elderly and disabled lives
@@idamay4590 Section 8 is a complete disaster. Tenants with Section 8 are paying above what their non-Section 8 fellow tenants are paying. Landlords only deal with Section 8 if there is an incentive for them to deal with the hassle. Just look at how Trump made his first millions. Section 8 makes rents more expensive. Then, there is all the cost to administer the program with all it's micromanagers.
You can just give a cash rent subsidy to the person renting. No need to go though all the hassle of vouchers and landlords wouldn't be able to refuse it since they wouldn't know the difference
Imagine saying "yeah, I'll evict your grandparents or cancer patients" and then actually thinking that you're the victim.
Yeah, because you couldn't do anything about it. It's the market. And it doesn't make you a bad christian. As if someone can or should say that about him- or herself in the first place!
Imagine thinking you have a basic human right to force someone else to harvest natural resources, relocate and process them into materials, manufacture construction products, and build your free housing, etc, etc, etc...
@@BG-bx4ey found the leech
@@BG-bx4ey Natural resources are not equally harvestable to everyone, are they now ?
@@BG-bx4ey Funny you say that as investors are literally harvesting poor people
This hit hard. It makes me grateful that it was only renting prices and covid that had me going back to my folks place. They have a big house and I still pay rent to them. I'm deeply grateful that we get along very well.
Thank you, John, for giving voice to this topic. I was homeless and might be homeless again if my landlord sells this house due to a lack of making enough money on it. Housing insecure is what they call this. I have been homeless before and it frightens me. I live in San Francisco, and the graph you showed on workers versus rent in cities including SF across the country was so spot on. I work hard, yet the rent in this city should be a crime. I was wondering and worried about the woman who accidentally went to the wrong courtroom. What happened to her and her child? Please tell me she found housing.
I'm on disability, I get 12k a year, and an additional 2k in food stamps. If I did not have very loving partners who allowed me to stay with them rent free, chipping in on chores and food, I would have no where to stay. I searched in a 50 mile radius and no where accepted housing assistance of any kind and the only low income places were 800/m at minimum for a studio place not much bigger than my current bedroom and be unable to afford anything else. I get so emotional when I hear about other people, because despite being so poor, having very little and being able to do little, I'm still very lucky to have parents to take on a few expenses I can't, and to have found loving partner's at exactly the right time.
Our system is so messed up, that the only way I can live, is to have family and friends take me in rent free
It's good that you have that sort of social support, and I hope that you continue to have that sort of support around you. It's wrong that someone would *need* to have that sort of support because the system has failed them. Everyone deserves to have stability in getting their basic needs met, regardless of income or social support systems.
welp, that's what living in a corporate owned country, where socialism is strictly censored due to the influence of the elites does to you... I mean.. People keep voting Trump who raises taxes on poor people and complain about Bernie Sanders being a commie.. idk what world Americans live in, but it appears to be a pretty messed up world. I truly don't get it.. The best part is, people keep blaming the government for everything and 2nd ammendment freaks keep justifying guns with the government argument, but none of them realizes the true mischief maker is the fking corporations who literally own the government lol... The government is just a meatshield for the corporations when they fuck up... People in America srsly need some education.. Although it's impossible to get in such system.. But still, people like Richard Wolff and Bernie Sanders keep fighting, so there's hope.
I’m in a very similar situation. I am unbelievably lucky to have parents that are willing to support me emotionally and financially because if I didn’t, I would probably be dead. I empathize so much with this
I’m disabled too. Happened while I was living abroad, and now I’m worried about my move back to the states. Is it true that you can’t have more than 2K at a time in order to remain on disability?
I’m moving to the states in about a month with 7k I’ve saved up… Is that going to be an issue? Or is it that you can’t have more than 2k from monthly income at any time? I just remember a poor girl getting kicked off of her disability because she sold something that made her bank account go to just $2 over $2000.
And then I was looking at the housing in Georgia, and if you want accessibility to public transportation like the marta system, you would either have to live in extremely rich neighborhoods like Midtown for US$4000 (which is HALF the size of the home I’m currently living in abroad, for double the rent money), or poor neighborhoods that report hearing gun shots since 2017. AirBnBs are also expensive (Surprisingly even more expensive than the housing…..), And of course everywhere else requires a car because America was dumb enough to focus all infrastructure on everyone having a car and making car payments.
Loving partner(s)? What the heck is that
Totally affected by this. Use to live in Cali, and our landlord hiked the rent TWICE in one year. One was 150.00 and the next was 175.00 AND he was selling the property. He was trying to get the rent up to the "market standard" before selling. So, we could not afford it and ended up finding a house in Louisiana for a 1000 bucks less than what he was charging. So we moved and joined the mass exodus leaving California. We left the apartment clean and with all holes spackled. Even had it cleaned, and left a ring camera and 2 new faucets (that we replaced ourselves during our time there) and this fat and greedy bastard said he was keeping our 2000 deposit AND tried to charge us 2800 dollars in "cleaning and damage" fees. Really? We lived there peacefully for 7 YEARS, no issues and always paid on time. So now we have to take him to court to try to get our deposit back. Some people are just despicable. And it adds insult to injury since we were great tenants, were forced out and now this. SMH.
The entire point of being a landlord is to make money without working for it. That's the caliber of person you're dealing with.
Yeah, keeping the deposit for no real justification is a typical slumlord move.
I've had it happen to me twice. Once I was moved out the apartment by friends while I was in long-term hospitalization and never paid attention to the deposit.
The second time, I knew there was some minor damage and I waited too long to demand an itemized list of charges to meet state law for being able to get the whole deposit back.
Now, I know the laws, and how to keep landlords "honest".
He sounds like a slimeball. No, worse than the pond scum moldy @$$ speck of dust on said slimeball! 👾👾👾
Keep fighting the good fight, I'll be praying for your court battle outcome 🙏💪✊💟
Sue his ass
Rent. Is. Theft.
Tell it, John! Preach!!! ❤
More regulations for landlords wont solve a single problem, limiting the ability for corpoations to buy up every home is how you stop it
well, one of the ways to help mitigate it, but yea.
I'm sitting here watching this in the home I just bought, and it makes me want to cry. I felt like a slave the entire time I rented, and now, for the first time in my American life, I feel like I have some level of control and freedom in my life. I am no longer working long hours to pay my landlord's mortgage and feed their kids. I pay $200 less a month for this house than I paid renting a house that was so dilapidated that my mom (who raised me in a trailer in the poorest county in the US) gasped and couldn't believe I was living like that. My neighbor who shared the duplex actually fell through his floor, and the place was covered in black mold. It was also costing me an extra $150 a month to wash laundry and get a gym membership so I had a place to shower (the bathroom was in far too bad of a condition and I was worried about the mold and the tub falling through the floor.)
I'm saving over $350 a month living in a great house that just needs a little TLC, and I have the freedom to actually give that TLC to it. I can finally have a garden and pets, an awesome river runs through my backyard. It's all I've ever wanted, and my heart goes out to all the people still being enslaved by landlords.
thats amazing, im really happy you have that!
I've been trying to do that for a while now, but the down payment and closing costs are just ridiculous. The actual payments are basically nothing compared to rent, but getting passed that initial "no poor people allowed" hump is extremely difficult.
For contrast, my boss is trying to go the opposite way since owning a home is too expensive for her with all the maintenance she doesn't know how to do herself and the high cost of gas to get too and from work or her kid's school. But she can't move because there's no place to rent that she'd be able to afford.
Great, but housing costs make it prohibitive for most people to buy either. Plus, you have to pay financing fees to build your credit rating.
Congrats! But it's not over. Get ready for shady property tax assessments (that will favor the county and are usually backed by a state equalization board) if you do improvements. Even if you get to a point down the road where you own your home free and clear you're still paying thousands of dollars a year to your county in overpriced taxes. It's great!!
@@eldiabs you're right i just got a bill for 443 in the mail for property tax i didn't realize i had to count as a bill ...
This story highlights another important issue we have with our legal system. It’s predatory, assuming, and loaded with arbitrary rules, which you must invest large sums of cash to play by.
And the Supreme Court keeps ruling in favor of corporations so we don’t even have that as a potential ultimate blocker anymore.
@@nunyanunya4964 it's not just the supreme Court it's the entire federal court system has been hopelessly corrupted and it is going to keep getting worse.
@@nunyanunya4964 Unless we fire the five lawyers who lied in their job interview--the confirmation hearings, about their specific views on Roe. All five lied. It's on tape. They should be kicked out. Who can or should be trust in a Justice who has been caught lying in a big way? The dumb thing is they didn't even need to lie.
Best break down on the housing crisis I’ve seen yet. 👏🏻
As a fan for over forty years, I'm confident Rush is appalled that man is wearing their hat. Happy to see John make a joke about it.
Huge issue is the delay in getting security deposit back when switching rental homes. You have to pay the new security deposit before you get the previous one back. I have friends who simply can't move because they can't afford $2-3k security deposit while their rent continues to rise.
The bigger issue here is your friends income and possibly spending problem.
Since WHEN do you get a security deposit back? I've been ripped off by my landlord EVERY SINGLE TIME I've moved and there's NOTHING you can do about it. A deposit is nothing but a BRIBE to the landlord to let you sign the lease. After that, you can kiss it goodbye. Tennants have NO rights, none.
@@lorraineclark4413 You have no clue what you’re talking about. Assuming you didn’t trash the place you’re security deposit is returned at least in my State. Maybe try standing up for yourself or read your lease contract before spreading misinformation.
@@lorraineclark4413 well tenants definitely have rights but I agree with your sentiment. Always do full video inspections with the landlord present upon move in.
It's far more than the security deposit. On the month that you move, you have to pay:
- Your current rent (even if you leave early)
- The first month of your next
- Potentially also the last month
- All of the costs associated with packing and unpacking all of your stuff.
- The traditional moving day bribe of pizzas for friends/family
- Renting storage trucks and/or hiring a moving company and/or all the gas costs from a dozen round trips in basic vehicles.
- (And then of course, whatever hit comes to your security deposit bullshit, if you paid one. Otherwise, you will inevitably receive a bill loaded up with fraudulent charges that will be cheaper than what the lawsuit to challenge those fees would cost.)
I live in South Africa, where Housing is a human right and tenant rights are strongly guarded. Landlords can't raise rents more than reasonable, a landlord can't 'change locks', 'renovate', 'discount utilities' etc to get you out of the unit. All of those attract spoliation cases through our Rental Housing Tribunal. Renters can cancel their lease with 20 days' notice whereas a landlord must honour the full lease (unless the tenant stops paying, in which case there is a lengthy legal eviction notice to be followed). The outcome of all of this is that we don't have large investment firms hoarding housing, rental prices are stable, and housing is a lot more accessible to the middle-income bracket. For those who are low-income, the government either hands out subsidised units or provides rental assistance (all students from lower-middle income households qualify for free university and free accommodation).
Yes, we have mass unemployment and mass inequality that is still being addressed. But we at least have the legal framework constitutionally in place at a national level.
✍️ South ✍️ Africa ✍️ decent ✍️housing ✍️
Duly noted
South Africa is a hell hole.
this sounds pretty fucking sweet and kinda unreal as someone in the US
Sounds nice and all, but how is that working out? One of the highest murder and crime rates in the world. Corruption everywhere. The military had to be called in to stifle mass riots because an ex president got convicted of corruption. Farmers are targeted and punished because they're white. The post-colonial and socialist rule doesn't seem to make anything better.
Watch out for leaders who want to do away with all this in the name of reforms and promise better equality & employment..
Bcz these politicians and policies will eventually come..
The first place I rented was in hazelton Pennsylvania in 1997. The landlord stuck 7 people into 3 bedrooms with one bathroom. One morning I grabbed the sink to steady myself and it came off the wall and I held it in my hands for 90 minutes.
i work in seattle as a critical care nurse. my current pay rate does not allow me to rent ANYTHING in the city that isnt a micro studio, since landlords require proof of 3x rent which i do not have, even if i was willing to spend more. as a result here i am, an educated professional providing a valuable (crucial?) service to my city, but unable to live in it. i could find roommates but instead i live with my parents an hour's drive away, saving every penny, hoping that i can afford a down payment for a small house within the next 10 years.
That is freaking insane.
You need to pair up. Unfortunately living alone is not doable. Even for professionals.
I actually went through a nightmare l last December. I got a notice from my landlord of 11 years on the 8th asking me to be out by the 30th. She didn’t even try to give me the full 30 day notice, until I pointed out that that was against the law. We had the most stressful time to be looking for housing near the holidays. The sad thing is that even though I never missed rent (even through COVID) & didn’t have an eviction, landlords ASSUMED that we were suspicious because we were in a hurry. Not only that, but because I have two cats, I got turned away from so many properties. At the end with barely any time left (& a letter of recommendation from my employer) we found a house that was $600 more expensive. I ended up taking my ex landlord to court for not returning my deposit. I won the case, but haven’t gotten it back yet because it’s so difficult and expensive to file paperwork to get the my money back. I hope that I actually end up getting my deposit back sometime this year.
evict them
If you have a judgment, take the judment to the court house and get a lean for your landlords bank accounts if you know where he banks take the lean to them and they'll give you all the money in the account up to the amount owed you.
And this usually only cost 25 to 50 bucks to get the courts to sign off on one.
Sounds absolutely awful. Good luck, don't give up! ❤️❤️❤️
@@MrSlicky77 Thanks for the tip! I’d been told to get a writ of execution and have the sherif go out and asses personal property. I’d have to pay $500 for that 🙃
@@Lulu-qn6bj ohhh, yeah that's a little more strong arm than just the lean. That permits you to enter their business and if they're not an llc you can even go to their homes and start taking their personal belongings.
I would do the bank lean a couple of times before going that route
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
"Bold of you to assume I can afford boots."
Really in America? Cant afford boots? Or rent? Never in my worse time has that been true. Never. You have a cancer in your mind and all the free money in the world will not help. Good luck.
@Akira Kurosawa Bro are you replying to me, or what?
1:26 Henry Kissinger is dead :)
It should be that if you win an eviction case, the entire record is sealed, and not showing on your record.
I literally paused the show, found that lawyers website, and sent a message saying "Fuck right off for worsening our housing crisis and having no sympathy about it." I hope I'm not the only one who has done this.
Well then share the dudes website so I can do it too
@@julianmorales-silva160 what’s their name?
Sending $55 billion to create foreign wars out of thin air and enrich the US military industrial complex and politicians contracts make a lot of sense now. Thanks for ur inputs.
I bet he's a Republican.
People like that don't listen to words. At some point people are going to decide on action not because they want to, but because we're being choked to death while doing everything we were told was right for life.
This so so accurate! My voucher took 16 years. There's a time limit on the voucher, you have to find a place fast! So we took a terrible small place, the landlord died and his brother lied and said we owed money..well, we have an eviction record now. Even if your case is dismissed, the court record remains.
I believe you can petition the court to have it expunged - I suggest you ask a lawyer
@@splooie02 great suggestion, I'll ask. Thanks!
Landlords don't want to rent to Section 8.... Middle class people don't want to live around Section 8 residents.
He was right. Raising rent doesn't make you a bad christian. One could argue externalizing blame, in this case, blaming the market, actually makes you a good christian.
John Oliver & his writers:
Come watch our show and have fun having an existental crisis😂