We’ve been renting a 2BR/1BA house in Sarasota for 8 years, originally at $1050/mo. Most recently, it’s gone up to $1400/mo and the landlord is selling out from under us so we’re frantically looking for something “affordable.” There is nothing. Anything close to our present rental is about 2K—and located in the shittiest of neighbourhoods. Anything comparable to what we have now is more like $2500 or more. I’m loathe to consider a mobile home, having just barely survived two damned hurricanes in a month (Milton hit our keys head on, and it’s not pretty).
Add to this that I haven’t had a raise (fkg Walgreens…) in two years so we’re talking rents MORE than I make (son is my roommate and has an even worse employer). We can’t even afford to leave the state, even if we could make twice as much elsewhere. No clue where we’d even go.
Obviously, we need to address the fact that oligarchs are controlling the housing market to everyone else’s detriment—but it’s Florida. Just one more thing pushing us to start thinking along the lines of a real class uprising. Maybe just one obscenely rich guy to the guillotine and the rest would get the message… 
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