It's mad that this isn't being treated as the national scandal that it is, nor being addressed as a massive brake on economic growth.

#rent #ukpol

@RAHU

#Prosfygika - one of the largest squatted communities in Europe - means 'refugee homes' in Greek; a stronghold of #partisan resistance in the December 1944 uprising, which left the blocks scarred by bullet holes. Nowadays this neighbourhood fights against the ongoing state-backed #gentrification of #athens
https://libcom.org/article/another-way-live-inside-fight-prosfygika

#housingcrisis #landlords #rent #Squatting

Babies having babies is all about that #nationalist subjugation. They want more #tax payers, more #rent money, more #subscribers, more #poverty, because as we say in Norway: more wants more.

This is also what #Putin wants, because the #nationalist doesn't care about the citizen, the consumer or the individual.

You are but an #asset ment to worship the #state.

Marc Siegel: 'Problem Is Teens... Ages 15-19 – The Fertility Is Down'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox-news-doc-says-the-problem-is-teens-ages-15-19-the-fertility-is-down/

NOW PLAYING == The Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards 4/12/26: Tales From The North, guest Erica Ifill of the Hill Times and the Bad and Bitchy Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43-Bnk9mNt0

#news #uspol #geopolitics #Canada #commentary #progressive #housing #rent #activism #left #ChrisRichards #anticapitalist #leftist #revolutionary #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

Held on, or: The road taken

A Sijo

W3 poetry prompt

For this week’s W3, Nigel encourages us to compose paeans to our personal triumphs.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Friend in Bray was looking to move back into the home she was renting in 2022 for €2,100/month.

The landlord quotes her €3,000/month.

I’m shocked: how can he do that when there’s a 2% yearly cap on price increases? So the most he should be able to charge is €2,273.10.

Can you guess the answer?

Did you say because Irish people elected a majority conservative/neoliberal government?

(Apparently the government just removed the 2% cap for new tenancies.¹ Landlords can now charge “market rates”. In other words, whatever the fuck they like.)²

Happy shoot yourself in the foot day to anyone who voted for Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael. Many happy returns.

¹ https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/renting-a-home/landlords-rights-and-responsibilities/rent-increases-in-private-rented-housing/
² https://news.myhome.ie/renting/new-irish-rent-reforms-explained-35249

#ireland #housing #rent #housingCrisis #conservatives

@RAHU

Interview with Housing activist Jordan van den Lamb anti-landlord “influencer”
Australian Capitalism and its parliamentary wing of landlords despises van den Lamb. He outrages conservative radio hosts and has even earned the ire of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who owns multiple investment properties, and who publicly branded van den Lamb “a disgrace.”

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/australia-housing-landlords-rba-parliament

#housingCrisis #Landlords #Rent