Big rent increases are hurting small businesses 

More like Trump and Biden combined

@@donttrip4069 why Trump? He's not in office..

Trump sold $400 shoes and $60 "BIBLES", shit that can't improve your life no matter how you look at it. Bibles are supposed to be free.

Both parties work behind close doors to screw Americans

The issue is at least in my town taxes on the landlords have skyrocketed along with costs of insurance and repairs. I’m not saying it’s right but the problem is the landlords need to be able to pay their people too. Or do you think that because you’re a handiman working for an apartment complex you don’t deserve a livable wage? But even beyond that the heart of the issue I think is the taxes. It’s always more and more taxes. My town just instituted a student tax, a tax on tenants, raised property taxes, and a new landlord tax to prevent a deficit. Why can’t we reevaluate the city budget?

I live in a 24 year-old Toyota Sienna minivan and don't pay any rent.

​@@Network126 Yeah, being homeless is not desirable for most

Please read your comment again and realize how this makes no sense.

@@stryfetc1471 Not desirable, but certainly a lot more affordable

Oh wah. Like the rental increases over the past decade haven't more than justified those costs already. Are the same people filling up rivers with tears when residential rent goes up 22%? Nope. Not a drop. Bye now.

And another increase in property tax

It's rising property taxes, city fees and insurance...plain and simple.

@@duckling4393 maybe where you're at but the majority of it is greed they got used to the extra cost when COVID hit

@@duckling4393Which is a form of greed. But no, it's also just HIGHER RENTS for more profit. So thanks for your totally inaccurate and uninformed take of landlords just passing costs along. Because that's an easily dispelled lie when you compare percentages of increases with percentages of the costs you describe. Now what will you do with all of that BEING WRONG that you have?

​@@duckling4393yeah because you're playing with your housing like a piggy bank instead of working..

don't blame the property owners. Blame the people that keep voting blue

American Corporations and Private Equity are whats making prices go up everywhere on everything. It's NOT the minimum wage, corporations just tell you it is.

​@@haydenanderson245 That's nonsense. All the local restaurants, like taco and pizza, started raising prices big time when the minimum wage raises started happening. Now it costs like $20 to get a basic taco dinner and a drink. That's got nothing to do with big corporations or private equity. Those are small business owners who work very hard and maybe take home $50,000 a year and the wages they pay workers are one of their biggest expenses, possibly the biggest. I used to go out to eat any time I felt like it. Then one month I added it up and realized I had spent over $400. So now I keep track and go out much less. A few more increases and I won't go out at all any more. I'm not going to pay $30 for a taco dinner, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that sentiment. When we get to that point a lot of restaurants are going to be in big trouble. When they close or reduce staff all the people the minimum wage is supposed to be helping are going to have no jobs. We've already seen exactly that happening in California and Washington State.

@@ericellis309where are you going where you spend $30 on a taco dinner? Also is the minimum wage keeping up with inflation?

20 not 30. But yes very expensive to eat out. I cook at home.​@@joaquinjr2570

Buddy you should READ things instead of hearing about it.

Thanks Biden and Trump

@@donttrip4069 just Biden. Don’t be dumb

@Afarbell Both of them old bastards have ruined America. Yeah I said it. What now A hole