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All CEOs are bastards or something

Saving money on food to buy a guillotine is personal finance.

Please, I'm begging you, please call Habitat for Humanity. Don't make assumptions based on what you think you know about the program or have heard, just fucking call.

Worst case scenario: You spend an hour at the initial meeting and discover it won't work for you. The other scenario: You end up owning a brand new home (or one refurbished to brand new) at cost.

Because my es-wife picked up the phone, I now own my own home at $600/mo., 19-year mortgage. Took us right at a year to complete the program and have keys in hand.

Be glad to answer questions, but there are variations according to the local outfit's way of doing things.

My parents, 35000 dollars for a two bedroom, 1 bath house 3 acres of land in the middle of BFE back in the 80's

Today, 3 bed, 1 bath house with less than .25 acres, 200k same BFE area.

With inflation something comparable to my parents house in BFE, because it's not changed all that much, should only be 100k.

And the recent minimum wage increase to 13.75 an hour passed by the people is in process of being revoked by Republicans.

And I do get tired of visiting home and taking to people that spout off the 'back in my day' bs.

"Greedy landlords" is an easy cope out. Instead we should realize the system that's built to continously inflate the economy whereas our wages stagnate at best.

No one wants to work (for nothing) anymore!

I started at $1,400 in 2011. That went up to $3,200 by 2023 for the cheapest place in a worse part of town.

I had to move to an entirely different city. Fuck San Diego. Shitty ass city.

My first apartment (without roommates) was $600/month I think. I just check the present day at it rents for $1400! The mortgage cost on my first house (small/low cost of living area) was only $1000/month.

I just don't know how young people are affording housing these days.

But this flies in the face of the great American delusion that everyone can white knuckle their way through large crises arising from systemic failures or engineered on purpose by oligarchs.