#an increase of like 8-12k/year 😭 and yet california's democratic supermajority failed to pass rent caps 🤡�� | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

jukeboxhound · 20 days ago

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In the last eight years or so -- which means it's not just COVID-related issues -- I've lost my favorite local coffee house, my favorite local bookstore, my favorite local quirky restaurant, AND my favorite local Irish pub with the 1916 Easter Rising mural, and now I'm about to lose my favorite local secondhand clothing shop. 😭

#pretty much all of them have to do with an inability to pay the sharply rising cost of rent in this area #the clothing store owner is an 80yo woman who never remembers me lmao but she's very nice and has excellent fashion taste #the bookstore employees actually wanted to collectively buy the business from the owner but the owner said no #because he also owned the building and thought he could make more by renting it out to another business #joke's on him the place has been empty for several years now since he killed his own bookstore SUCK MY DICK MOTHERFUCKER #not unrelatedly now that my dad has officially inherited the house from my late grandmother the county has reappraised the property #and we're anxiously waiting for confirmation of the annual tax to see if we can pay it :/ two attorneys have told us to expect #an increase of like 8-12k/year 😭 and yet california's democratic supermajority failed to pass rent caps 🤡💀#hound barks

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