The apartment I lived in was nice until they were bought out and they screwed the place over.
"The government pays us $XXX to have so many apartments with washer/dryer hookups? Let's install those things in every apartment!"
They tore out my pantry and placed in hookups but the pantry was 12 inches deep, no washer or dryer could fit in there. To make it worse, government housing inspectors came in constantly..(WTF Privacy?)..and then they upped everyone's rent by $200/mo and 1/4 left, including both police officer families.
Then came the thefts, domestic disputes, and constant catalytic converter thiefs.
Did I mention the parties? Yeah the ones that go from 1AM to 4AM? Yup.
What broke my heart was that many of my neighbors were retired widows (best neighbors ever BTW) and they were effectively bullied out of there through the $200/mo increase, they couldn't afford it and had to be kicked out. "They're sending us to housing downtown, there's no grass yards near there, it's so dingy".
Reminds me of what China is doing, they are seizing land in small villages and forcing these people to live in small high rise apartments because it’s cheaper and a better use of space, and they can sell land off to developers to get more government revenue.
The issue is these people are so poor that pretty much they only ate what they grew. Now they have no land to grow on, and are starving.
The apartment I lived in was nice until they were bought out and they screwed the place over.
"The government pays us $XXX to have so many apartments with washer/dryer hookups? Let's install those things in every apartment!"
They tore out my pantry and placed in hookups but the pantry was 12 inches deep, no washer or dryer could fit in there. To make it worse, government housing inspectors came in constantly..(WTF Privacy?)..and then they upped everyone's rent by $200/mo and 1/4 left, including both police officer families.
Then came the thefts, domestic disputes, and constant catalytic converter thiefs.
Did I mention the parties? Yeah the ones that go from 1AM to 4AM? Yup.
What broke my heart was that many of my neighbors were retired widows (best neighbors ever BTW) and they were effectively bullied out of there through the $200/mo increase, they couldn't afford it and had to be kicked out. "They're sending us to housing downtown, there's no grass yards near there, it's so dingy".
This happened over the course of 6 months.
Reminds me of what China is doing, they are seizing land in small villages and forcing these people to live in small high rise apartments because it’s cheaper and a better use of space, and they can sell land off to developers to get more government revenue.
The issue is these people are so poor that pretty much they only ate what they grew. Now they have no land to grow on, and are starving.
"Let's just grab a third world person from out in the sticks of our country and toss them into an inner-city high-rise...What could go wrong?"
It's actually very Chinese (more or less "MAO-ist") of them, very self-centered and not thinking about society.