A New Brunswick tenant says he’s being pushed out of his rented bungalow as retribution for complaining about his landlord, but his landlord says she’s the victim of an unfair tenancy tribunal ruling that is preventing her from using the unit to house family.
Jonathan King and his landlord, Ashmin Goolab, have been embroiled in a bitter year-long dispute involving a notice of a 65 per cent rent increase, a failed eviction attempt, and claims that the unit is needed to house Goolab’s mother-in-law.
King, who lives in Chipman, said Goolab is trying to force him and his wife out of their affordably priced bungalow in an effort to circumvent New Brunswick’s rent cap, and as retribution for a complaint he made about being given improper notice to alter their lease.
Renters are allowed? Most of us can’t afford to buy, so check your privilege. Yeah, they shouldn’t use housing as a commodity, but renters need a place to live too, eh!
Renting in some cases is a valuable service to offer, but its also a bit of a chicken and egg problem.
When a huge portion of the population is renting only because they can’t afford to buy, the few people/businesses that can afford to buy rental properties are essentially just extracting value from renters. Getting paid to do nothing like a parasite.
Makes them get ahead faster than renters, and they buy up more and more properties. Driving up prices for both owners and renters.
it is no accident though, various private equity parasites have
lobbiedbribed various speculation-incentives into law over the decades that make it especially lucrative to be a rent seeking parasite…the “professional landlords” can even write lost rent off their taxes, that is…an apartment sits empty because noone can afford to live there (and who sets the rates…)? free $ off their tax billso they’re actually financially incentived to leave to a couple units vacant with an exuberant rate they know noone can afford
Where I live, houses that people can afford to buy are purchased by these entrepreneur grindset wannabe amateur landlords and then rented out at a higher price than the mortgage to the same people who would have bought the property otherwise (which must always be the case when you think about it, otherwise there’s no profit). I understand not ALL landlords are this type of scum, but she is a landlord and she is this type of scum. Hence the epithet.
Also, consider being a bit more cautious about who you tell to “check their privilege”, as I’m pretty clearly defending people with less money against people with more of it. For all you know, I’m a renter living below the poverty line. My opinion, exactly as I’ve expressed it, is shared by many people in that situation. Even if your argument was 100% correct in all situations, it’s obvious that my heart was in the place of defending lesser privilege, even if I really was misunderstanding the economic implications of landlords not existing.
Yeah? That happens everywhere. Did I not mention housing should not be used as a commodity? I forget. You threw renters under the bus in your comment I replied to, so I doubt you are a renter just eeking by? I calls em as I sees em. My heart was also in the right place.
You got me! I don’t rent now, but I did rent on a sub-poverty income for about two years, and during that time I felt the same way as I do now. So you would have had the same exchange with past, renter-me, and then what? What difference would that have made to either of our arguments? It is a pointless avenue for you to pursue, since as I already pointed out and you conveniently did not refute, many renters share my view exactly as written.
I don’t believe I threw renters under the bus, but I’m open to having my understanding corrected if you could elaborate on how I did so.
The reason you can’t afford to buy is because of the fucked up housing market where capital competes with normal people for the same supply. Housing shouldn’t cost a hundred bazillion dollars.
We should also blame governments and NIMBYs for blocking construction of new housing, especially when immigration is pursued as a means to grow the economy without any plan to provide housing for newcomers.
Our whole society is really set up to facilitate ladder pulling and hot potato, rather than community-building.
Spoken like a true enjoyer of their chains.
What a fool you are. There will always be a renter class in this society we’ve all created. I merely pointed out that renters are not the problem here, and owning comes with a lot of it’s own headaches. Yes, it is nice to own and builds equity, why doesn’t my paying rent build anything? It doesn’t even affect my credit score nor prove I am able to make a mortgage payment?! That is a real issue that should be identified and fixed, maybe it should eat into the equity a landlord builds on their property? Maybe that could stymie some of the speculation.
I also did specifically say that housing should not be treated like a commodity, but y’all go ahead and eat your own tail. I was paying the rent on a shared living space with 4 other people and the bank viewed that as a liability, not proof I can handle my finances. They cut off my credit card due to this potential liability hanging over me?!