Worth a shot! My very amazing partner yorjie and I are looking for a room/garage/crash space for us to shack up in for $800/mo or less. Preferably5-15 miles within the Beverly Hills area where I work. (Our preference is Hollywood but we’re cool with whatever!) We are creative professionals, which means we’re making money & making art. We love to collab. I have a very cool job with work functions that have open bars. I am a great asset to have around for that alone. We’re also pretty funny. We’re quiet and keep to ourselves unless you want to smoke with us; and then we’ll be your best buds. (There will be more jokes like that. Remember: funny.)
We are a dazzling queer couple with great resumes and even greater smiles. We’re great communicators and working on being great cleaners. Everything my partner cooks is delicious. We’re great to have around because it’s like we’re never around at all, but then there’s always weed and leftovers.
If this sounds like a good idea for you, let me know ASAP because we need to move by July 12th and finding LGBTQ+ friendly housing has been a huge pain in the ass. We’re incredibly friendly & chill!
We are going to be homeless in 4 days!
2 days!
PLEASE help them, this is not a joke, they will literally be on the streets in 2 days if you could PLEASE reblog this and spread some word
landlords arent bad because theyre “lazy” or “parasites”, theyre bad because they take advantage of poverty and manipulate housing availability for financial gain. you people have GOT to stop framing your critiques of the bourgeoise the same way eugenicists talk about the disabled
I was going to sneakily reply to this with “but they’re also parasites” but
I did some introspection and you’re right. While landlords do suck up value without giving any back, the idea that every individual needs to “contribute something” to capital is an inherently manufactured take.
What should be criticized is the coercive nature of the transaction between rentiers and their tenants; the artificial scarcity employed to maintain the power imbalance between the landed and those without; an ideal world is not one where we retributively attack the gentry but find a way to make them irrelevant.
Framing landlords as “they’re bad bc they’re lazy parasites” actually opens you up to further attacks! Several are in fact not lazy, they sometimes do stuff like act as professional middlepeople (“something is broken, it is their job to find someone else who will fix it”). And so they might say “actually, managing property is quite a bit of work therefore landlords aren’t all useless, just the bad ones, therefore we deserve to exist, ha!”
But that’s not the point! The point is that they manipulate a massively necessary need (housing) for their own gain, raising prices while threatening people with homelessness! That’s what’s bad, not the fact that they’re “lazy”. You could have the most hardworking landlord in the world, and it would still contribute to harm.
Something I don’t think gets talked about enough is that the house-flipping trend has not only resulted in ugly, poorly laid out houses, it’s resulted in houses that are literally already falling apart by the time they’re sold. There are vast numbers of new houses that are being built with the explicit expectation that they’re going to be torn down and rebuilt in ten years or less to keep up with contemporary trends, so they’re only designed to last five to ten years before falling to pieces. Like, I live in an ugly little house that hasn’t seen major renovations since the 1970s, and it’s in better physical condition than a lot of newer houses that were built last year.
I know that doesn’t sound like a big deal if you think of it in terms of ha ha, rich people overpaying for shitty houses, but flip it around and consider: what does our ostensible housing surplus actually mean if an increasing number of those houses will be functionally uninhabitable within a decade?
Prime example of racists co-opting progressive language to pass their bigotry off as something else
liberalism and white feminism have always led down this path.
We don’t have riots in Houston, but the moment someone comes for our Slabs…
The feminist language is pretense. What these people really care about is property values.
The same type of people move into African American neighborhoods and try to use noise ordinances against the loud church services on Sunday mornings. They move into white working class suburbs and try to get laws passed to stop the shade tree mechanics from having more than two vehicles parked in their front yards. They move to the country and bring nuisance lawsuits against farmers over the noises and smells and dust that are an inescapable part of farming.
All with the goal of making the area more attractive to the upper middle class who will pay more so that they, the new arrivals, will get more for their place when they go to sell.
This is the kind of behavior you get when market forces trump community.
Hey. Me and two other interns are looking for somewhere to live near the Amazon Robotics campus in Westborough and none of us know the area. None of us have cars. None of us know the area. We’re only there for the summer. The options seem downright dire in the town of Westborough, is there anywhere nearby that has anything to rent with a commute of 1-1.5 hours?
They’re driving the prices up because they’re buying all of it. Now they’re reselling it for higher and higher prices and making huge profits. Some of them are charging ridiculous prices just to let other people use it. So now there are people who can’t afford it even if some is available, because it costs so much. People are getting sick and dying because they don’t have any!
Oh wait. Did I say hand sanitizer? Housing. I meant housing. Damn autocorrect.
Photo credit: Does anyone know where this image was taken or who took it?
I’ve written about housing problems, solutions, and the need to address the sprawling issue that is affecting North America under many ways. We know there’s a crisis affecting millions of people which are pushing for a way of life which is not fully compatible with the environment.
Tiny homes have been on the feed of many social platforms for the past ten years displaying how cool they are, how cheap they can be made for people to purchase with their minimal requirements.
After a lengthy look through the years of this trend in small homes, we can say that without any effort it’s financially logical to dive into an investment of such dimension: on the wheel, cozy, made of natural elements, cheap, and so on.
I find myself arguing against this type of living for the simple reason that it represents the most essential condensation of individualism. They are no different than renting a single room in a house, except your isolation increases because you have the ability to pull it wherever you like it if you opted for the wheel option.
Some have different shapes, some look like the Sandcrawler from Star Wars.
Tiny homes are here to represent an extreme side of housing solution, yet they claim to resolve the many issues of urban sprawling. Their volume of less than 500 sg/ft -on wheel sometimes- is now a trend among architecture and design platforms, but they represent a phenomena of hyped iconoclastic reality juxtaposing against any other viable solution.
Why do we drift from gargantuan McMansion volumes to micro living spaces?- One of the reason is the hype of existentialism in reducing everything to the bone which has been affecting modern society today. It comes as an almost natural response to the exaggeration. The other bit is the will of people to remove themselves from the consumerism trap of their previous generation: millennials don’t want to repeat their parents mistakes and don’t want to end up living in the suburbs.
Some of these homes have great interiors and for a moment you forget they are the size of a shoe box. So fare this is not the solution to a housing crisis which tends to sprawl and consume so much capital and resources. Tiny homes are a trend and like all trends they tend to stay for a while and then fly away until the next one comes.
It’s a confining space that dehumanizes the persona and removes any sense of hospitality. Reducing the living space to a fancy VR or trailer might sound cool, but it’s far from being a home, it removes the very definition of human space becoming a display of self indulgence under the pretense of environmental caring.
Perhaps the real issue here is the lack of compromise between the 5000sq/ft mansion and the 500 sq/ft tiny home. There’s a lot that can be done to provide affordable homes and it should begin with the improvement of already-existing spaces, abandoned malls that can be turned into townhouses and have enough green space for people to enjoy. Cities have plenty of old sites that can be renewed, it’s just a matter of gearing up the right mentality.
Where is your nearest garbage dump? Where does the local factory go when it needs to get rid of some particularly toxic chemicals? If there was a disaster, would you have to move? Could you?
Sociologists use shorthand terms like “environmental racism” to draw attention to the fact that poor communities and communities of color are often more likely to be exposed to hazardous materials, and cases like the Flint water crisis drive this point home.
Of course, housing inequality also means that nobody has to dump anything to put poor communities in hazardous positions. One recent example of this is the flooding in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. Over at Socius, Yuqi Lu gathered data on the median household income in neighborhoods across the Houston area from the American Community Survey and matched it with land elevation data from Google Maps.
In general, poorer neighborhoods in Houston sit at lower elevations, and thus are more susceptible to flood risks. This relationship is strongest in less-densely-populated areas, such as rural and suburban neighborhoods, but additional analysis in Lu’s articleshows the relationship is robust.
Thelatest reports are in on human caused climate change. Regardless of whether we can act to turn it around in time, we’ll also have to recognize the fact that not everyone faces the same fallout from environmental hazards and natural disasters.
Evan Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota. You can follow him on Twitter.
Förstberg Arkitektur och Formgivning - House for mother. Linköping, Sweden. 2014
“House for mother” is a work in progress with construction starting in August 2014. The project is located in Linköping, Sweden, and part of the Linköpingsbo 2017 housing exhibition.
The house is divided into two parallel volumes slightly shifted from each other, thus creating spaces both in front of and behind the building. Oriented to the park in the north and the alley in the south, the two adjacent gables emphasize the overall theme for the area in general: narrow plots and a variation of housing types.
The first volume contains the kitchen, dining room and living room, with the bathroom and laundry room housed in a smaller cabin within the structure. The second volume, partly in two levels with a less inclined roof, provides the bedrooms and a small studio.
Facades and roof are covered with raw, corrugated aluminium while the interior is warm with an exposed timber structure and walls lined with plywood. The polished concrete floor folds up along the perimeter of the building and transforms into a bench and shelf.
Some shots of the new FC-Workshop Crafted Exterior on a Small House. The windows and doors visible on the outside actually translate fully inside the house and inherit the dye used on the exterior. The light coming in through them is really strong, almost on par with the imitation windows!
Balmung :: Mist :: Ward 6 :: Plot 42 [The New ‘Axe & Anvil’ Workshop and Storefront]
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