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Millions can no longer afford their rent
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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A different story but Detroit had an issue with housing and laws that prevented certain people from buying homes, getting mortgages, applying for well paying jobs all while getting abused and sometimes killed by the police. Some of those people revolted, not all, not even a significant number. They burned down everything, including the homes they could not buy and it brought down a city.
I could absolutely see this happening again because of abnormal rents. These landlords are going to upset enough people to the point when the group with no hope for their future just starts burning it all down. Why should they care about society when society doesn't care about them? Fire is so easy to start, and as Detroit found out, so hard to stop.
You think people are going to start burning their apartment buildings?
I'm all for chaos and rebuilding apartments makes me money but I'm not sure this is going to become a thing.
Yes I do. They did it before why wouldn't they do it again?
I dunno, the choice between squatting for a couple of years while ignoring court orders seems better than torching the place. Maybe I'm not chaotic enough!
I agree, but sometimes reason vanishes when people are under great stress. The first neighborhoods put to fire in Detroit were the same low income, majority black ones the arsenists lived in. It made no sense to attack the homes of their neighbors but they did it anyways. The anger was as intense as the flames, no one was spared.
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I feel like burning down a place… they’d have insurance to cover rebuild and lost rental income. It would be the renters who would suffer meanwhile.