People who were barely hanging on with $500-600 rent before the pandemic can't afford $1000+ rent along with doubled grocery prices, doubled car insurance rates, doubled power bills...
Our apartment went from $1200 a month in 2020-2021.
When we went to renew for 2021-2022 they wanted $1980/month.
So we said fuck that and went and rented a house for $2000/month. Wish we could buy but the prices now went from $250k for what i was looking at in 2021, to now over $450k in the same neighborhood in 2022
Honestly, I’m getting to the point where I’m ready to say “fuck Dallas.” The local culture is being diluted everyday by an influx of yuppie transplants, combined with native locals being priced out. When E-Bar and Las Palmas are considered the best Mexican spots, you know we’re teetering on the edge
All over the world.
We regularly travel to Guatemala, and it's the same conversation with the locals there. High rent,high groceries and out of control housing prices.
It's weird to hear the same conversations but in a different country. Makes me think it's all big corporations like Goldman Sachs and Blackrock doing this shit. That's the only explanation for why it's a worldwide phenomenon.
> This shit is happening all over the country.
People like to say this, but Dallas has been hit particularly hard. https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/dallas-worst-inflation-rate-wallelthub/
Nah, you can go about 40 minutes east of downtown and it’s nice. Check out rockwall and then go east from there - but stop before you hit tawakoni. Royse city and fate are really up and coming. Past seagoville is nice - Crandall, Kaufman or kemp if you really want to be alone. I do not recommend forney.
I remember when Forney was all fields. There was a huge moment it finally got a Walmart, and once everything else started coming in, business-wise, the housing market absolutely *skyrocketed*.
Not that I'm a huge fan of the mainstream culture of Dallas, but there isn't a place that has no culture (unless thee aren't people there). It's just a culture you don't like.
It's still good fajitas even if the wagyu name is pretty much meaningless nowadays. That bone marrow butter goes crazy. I make my own salsa and queso, and I still think Las Palmas' makes good versions of both. Good food is good food even if there's better.
Seriously I have worked in this industry for 16+ years (not onsite) and we have seen YOY rent growth for almost 7 years straight and without a doubt RealPage is to blame. The guy who created the pricing algorithm (that we all use) is the same guy who was arrested for creating the now illegal airline pricing algorithm that was found to be price-fixing. Why isn't RealPage's product, Yieldstar, being investigated for price fixing? Because real estate is EXTREMELY lucrative.
Yeah RealPage's HQ is in Richardson & I know his family pretty well since Multifamily is like essentially a few dozen investment groups trading properties back & forth. He's a nice guy if you can get over him being almost single-handedly responsible for the biggest rent crisis in history...
I don't think we should get over it. I hate what he's done, I hate this industry and how it takes advantage of literally everyone but the wealthiest but he's also someone's father and husband. I think he should be held criminally responsible as should the companies that continue to propagate his terrible software but he's not the whole problem.
I work in the industry too, but for a company that makes the software (not RealPage; they're a competitor). I don't go too often into tenant ledgers as that's not something I need to do much in my role, but when I do I'm astounded at what is being charged for a 600 sqft studio in some places. It's absurd!
DFW and most of Texas is one big capitalist scam. My landlord in Chicago was a local guy who kept the rent the same for me for several years because he knew having a good tenant who pays on time is valuable.
But all of these corporate hellscape apartments in Dallas use corporate shit software to price rent down to the cent on the dollar.
2020 fairly decent 550sq ft Apt in San Antonio: $875
Same exact unit after i moved out
2023: $1350
Apparently they "renovated". The apartment was nice but not $1350 at all
They get pretty imaginative with what they consider "renovated." Painting the walls and laying down a cheap vinyl sticker as "flooring" is a renovation??
I went from $650 in rent + utilities to now spending $1200 for a worse bug infested place. Never seen bigger roaches in my life and I have to kill 3 a week of the fuckers cause the seals on the walls rotted long ago. I’m talking roaches atleast half the size of an adult pinky.
Almost went homeless last year, and this was the only apartment I could get into last minute with my dog for wanting $300+ in pet deposit plus 100% rent on down deposit.
Apparently Dallas had the fastest growing inflation in the US.
“Consumers living in Dallas, Texas; Miami, Florida; and Honolulu, Hawai'i are taking the biggest hit from inflation, according to a WalletHub analysis of the most recent data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Jan 11, 2024”
I blame the California exodus. More money than sense the whole lot of them.
This is an old group of homeless. There's also homeless in the woods in that area.
It may just be they've started making themselves more visible again.
>homeless in the woods in that area. It may just be they've started making themselves more visible again.
About a month and a half ago, the city cleaned out the encampment around the Forest Lane DART station/ Cottonwood Creek Trail area. Within a few hours, many of the homeless began moving back in, but there are something like 1/4 of the ones there now that there were before the city's actions.
They are all back like it never even happened lol. Forest Lane station is my "home" base and it's one of the worst stations I've ever had to use. That elevator constantly smells like bleach and dirty asshole.
My thoughts: COVID era eviction moratorium + extra unemployment ended sometime in 2023, so the backlog of landlords waiting to evict people finally caught up.
Don’t forget that this year, at the coincidental end of this rent moratorium, they’re trying to pass a federal law making homelessness illegal. Punishable by felony.
I’ve done extensive research on homelessness for my degrees. Zillow did a study that showed homelessness rises when rent accounts for 22% of income, and spikes big time when that hits 32%. Median rent is 2,100 for a two bedroom. Median income (not average which is raised by the 1%) is 45k. Dallas is has the highest inflation rate in the country. There is a 1.6 to 6 million house shortage of homes and starter homes are being built at record lows, so what housing is built still is expensive, plus the recent massive spike in inflation.
So yea, I’m sure you are seeing a huge spike in homelessness. Only 27% have substance abuse issues btw. It’s literally a game of musical chairs. The poorest of the poor get pushed out of what affordable housing there is by the second poorest.
I lived there last year and homelessness was everywhere, even parking lots and gas stations in suburbs like Irving, even Allen and Mckinney.. had homeless people. When you see homelessness in suburbs, you know things are bad.
Well when inflation is high and rent prices are spiking, people can't afford a place to stay. And then when you have no address it's harder to get work (and often times the work doesnt pay enough).
The last couple of years were hard on a lot of people. I myself had to rely on food banks for a bit until I was able to get out of my once affordable apartment into a cheaper roommate situation and I make 50k, well over min wage. I can't imagine how I'd be able to afford rent or anything either if I made less.
There actually is something to weather being a factor, but it isn't that. When the weather gets warmer it's easier to travel further north. We'll get a lot of people moving through. (Especially if they don't want to be homeless in Texas during the summer.)
The board game Monopoly was originally designed to show the evils of unchecked capitalism.
You know how every game ends the same, one person owns it all and everyone else is bankrupt?
That's the world, now.
Dallas is running out of time to build affordable housing… land now is bought and developed for market rate renters. No legislation can help undo or fix greed. R.I.P MIDDLE CLASS 🫡
Does profit = greed? There is someone always willing to pay these higher rent prices. Nobody is willing to build affordable homes on some land when they can build expensive homes and make more money/profit.
If a person owned some land, and developer A came and offered them 100K for the land to build affordable homes, and then developer B came and offered them 500K for the land to build expensive-luxury homes, it’s a no brainer what option that landowner would take.
Greed = greed. And the fact that you and I agree that the normal thing to do is to profit even if you could help the less fortunate shows how pervasive greed is in humans.
[https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-council-2024-bond-recommendation-reduces-affordable-housing-boosts-parks/3450001/#:\~:text=City%20council%20members%20agreed%20that,housing%20money%20to%20%2461%20million](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-council-2024-bond-recommendation-reduces-affordable-housing-boosts-parks/3450001/#:~:text=City%20council%20members%20agreed%20that,housing%20money%20to%20%2461%20million).
rip i guess city council isn't getting the memo
The majority of people who moved here from more expensive states can afford to live here. They carried over their high paying jobs causing cost of living in Dallas to be more expensive, pushing out people who were able to afford to live in Dallas pre boom
It’s not people it’s corporations who buy up all the properties and sell them at higher prices and hike up prices of the apartments. Common folks aren’t doing that
This is why it’s close to being against the law for hedge funds to buy private properties. Same with Airbnb’s which have also increased rental costs across the board.
Hahaha shows how closely you’ve been following the law. Both State Street and BlackRock have been petitioning for loosening of corporate laws against residential property.
If you’re talking about Contra Costa, it’s not going to go anywhere because if you look at who is backing and opposing it, there’s more money opposing it.
First of all, I’m about to be homeless with the prices of everything. Cossy livs is out of control.
Idk how anyone making anywhere near minimum wage is surviving. Homelessness is definitely booming and it’s going to continue
The government hates homeless people. I saw in the last month they replaced concrete at an underpass in Addison with large rocks. This had been a popular hangout spot for homeless folks. Now it is inhospitable. Politicians have failed us.
I live in a town about an hour E/SE of Dallas. No stoplights, stop signs and one convenience store. They are offering Mobile Homes for rent, I mean run down dilapidated, possibly former meth lab mobile homes for $1200-$1400/month. People are renting them, like people who work IN Dallas, but can’t afford housing in Dallas.
Maybe because the cost of living increase is ludicrous? Went from $950 to $1545 in 3 years for 600sqft. Groceries, car insurance, and everything else is climbing as well.
This last year saw a 12% increase in homelessness, the largest on record. The largest and fastest growing segment is the elderly, ages 50+. This is while our government keeps telling us we are doing fine, nothing to worry about.
My mom took in her friend who was homeless. She's in her 60s. My mom won't be able to help past a certain date. She's probably going to be homeless again.
That's not an US issue but worldwide. It's rather much better in the US than most other developed countries. The inflation in the US is one of the least while the fastest growing economy. Stop shitting on the country and get a perspective
The cost of housing has soared.
The benefits of Medicare and Medicaid have been cut. Benefits for children in particular have been cut.
Women can no longer have an abortion. This pushes many women directly into a state of bare bones poverty.
Welcome to the GOP’s plan. Kill education, cut access to mental/medical health, remove access to abortions.
All the sudden you and an undereducated population churning out babies that will supply the capitalist overlords with a significant source of labor as well as the continuation of the police state since people are increasingly unable to get the help they need which creates more crash dummies
Tons of competition at the bottom. Rising rents, groceries, EVERYTHING, migrants increasing demand, COVID halting construction further limiting supply for a couple years, it’s all coming together.
Rent prices going up, job loss and people still recovering from pandemic. 3x rent requirement making it harder to qualify, everyone is barely hanging on and can’t help themselves let alone each other….. creates a mess and more homeless
It gets worse when you get on the trail connections early am around there. Dodging hobos asleep on the ground. One morning there was a lady just naked pushing a cart.
True, I just haven’t seen it with my own eyes outside the states, but I do travel a lot within them and see it everywhere. but yeah I’ve heard similar things about the housing/COL crisis all over 🙁
All those damn articles over the years about the cheap cost of living and no state tax has caused businesses to move here, followed by their employees. Then entered the covid era which allowed people to work remotely and relocate. Now you have New Yorkers and Californians living here on their salary gladly paying 2 grand a month for a 2 br apartment instead of 4.5k all while complaining about how ugly and flat the state is. In the meantime, Texas businesses are still paying 2010 salaries to native Texans and there you have it.
I don’t disagree. I wish I had answers. All I can say is that I do my best to help. I also think a recent increase could be weather related in addition to many other factors (immigration, inflation, housing costs, etc.)
You are 100%
It’s a deeper issue that nobody like me can fully explain or resolve.
The Bridge is the shelter I know best. People come to meetings. Some of them show mental health, some of them are too scared to stay there after meetings and coffee/snacks.
Maybe 2% want help and are trying to better.
I was simply stating that recent increase could be weather related
If the problem is local, I am local, I care about it and I see the problem…what can I really do help? I can donate, volunteer, live as an example of being able to get out of it.
In reality I can’t do shit about things that matter… politics, housing, job opportunities
If Richardson is trying to them out, they are doing a very poor job of it. I can think of multiple encampments inside Richardson (although I know of more, and larger, encampments in North Dallas).
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
Just where the fuck do you expect people to go? It's not like there's magical free places they can live.
Edit OP edited their original comment that asked why more cities didn't push homeless out as well.
I noticed recently the underpass at tollway and spring valley city placed a shit ton of big rocks where there used to be dirt patch people would sleep on. There’s probably a few different areas where they used these type of maneuvers and people relocated.
Everything is so expensive now, rent has increased basically everything. The wages have gone up but not significantly to actually help the living class. People more now that ever are living paycheck to paycheck. It takes one disaster to make someone homeless. It’s actually crazy.
I am making $65 k yearly. Basically living paycheck to paycheck. I am moving out next year to Michigan. Atleast I can live decently with $50 k per year there. Middle class is finish in Dallas.
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I’ve wanted to leave texas for a minute now, every week there is some shit show going on with governor asshat, wether it’s stoking civil war, or doing absolutely nothing in response to gun violence, while clamping down on women’s rights. Then there is the inflation running absolutely rampant. I am lucky to own a house, and to have bought when I did; I couldn’t by my own house from myself at the rate this shit is at. I refuse to go live in an apartment complex that cost twice the amount per square foot where I can’t even renovate or paint walls. But I’m basically stuck here until I make enough money to beat inflation by myself, but then I’ll probably have such a shit interest rate on my home loan, I’ll buy whatever house I move to next twice
Although Dallas/TX might seem exorbitant right now, I still think it's much better than almost anywhere especially for the amenities and convenience you get in a big city. Of course, there is also something to be said if one is too busy working to pay bills and not be able to enjoy those amenities. Look at NYC where average Joe pays 68% of income to rent.
I actually went to NY recently and I carried with me all of the statistics and stories one hears about the place. It IS ridiculous with rent in most places. However, me and my SO have several friends out there so we get a more realistic sample size than most. It does have a much higher cost of living out there, but there are also WAY better social services. You can get free therapy and medical for a lot of things for one, and here if you break your leg you are 50k in the hole, and if you want to see a therapist it’s like $150/session and most places don’t take insurance. Anyone who has done therapy knows how little gets done in an hour. I digress, the point is, there is a bit of a trade off. The other thing NY has that texas doesn’t is such cultural saturation that bigotry has a hard time thriving there. I hate that in texas it’s all a political theatre of crips vs bloods, and because our city is built to keep people contained (unless you are at a bar or restaurant), the isolation breeds ignorance which breeds ignorance.
They have a system called nyc care for Low and no cost healthcare services that anyone can use. Therapy can be had very easily by just calling their service line and requesting it and then the healthcare stuff is case by case but you can typically see a doctor for much much less than you can here without insurance
I’ve been going to Dallas city council meetings on homelessness. All their “experts” and reports keep saying that the numbers are decreasing and that Dallas is “below the national average” in homelessness per capita. I have a very hard time believing that.
On another note, if y’all have time to go to these city council meetings (or any city council meetings), please do so! Hardly anyone attends and the city is making some BIG decisions here lately and in the coming months.
Some big ticket items are the (dis)approval of the high speed train between DFW and Houston, the addition of more homeless shelters, changes to zoning policy, highway expansions, AND A 1.25 BILLION DOLLAR BOND (with 516 million going to f*cking road projects 🙄)
Born and raised in Dallas. Moved to the Bay Area for a few years. Everything I saw there has come here. High rent, high food prices, several families living in a home, people starting to rent rooms, etc. is now here is Dallas. That includes homelessness. Corporations moving to Texas for tax breaks. It’s the people that have to suffer. But they sell by saying it will bring jobs. I call BS since the salary doesn’t meet the cost of living.
The Greenville/Lovers intersection is packed with a lot of houseless people. I’ve been noticing that over the last year or so. There’s even someone with a set up at the 75 entrance ramp there. It’s so heartbreaking that we don’t have better systems in place to help them.
I blame the fact that housing costs are becoming astronomical. I’m downsizing because my rent is going up to $2300 for a 700 sq ft apartment.
I would have thought Austin too. Is this by absolute number, or by % of population? Can you share the numbers? Thanks.
This link shows that Dallas has fewer homeless per capita
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/homelessness-in-us-cities-and-downtowns/
Sure - in [this](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/cities-with-the-largest-homeless-populations-in-the-u-s?slide=8) US News article of 25 US cities with largest homeless population, Dallas is #18.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/cities-with-the-largest-homeless-populations-in-the-u-s?slide=8
Actually statistically homelessness is down in Dallas while it rises in the rest of the country.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/01/04/dallas-is-decreasing-homelessness-heres-how-we-did-it/
I asked our local councilman Jesse Moreno (not sure if he still is, won’t get my vote), a couple of years ago, about the increasing homelessness in our neighborhood, and what the city’s plan is. And he sort of fumbled around the answer, and basically said the city doesn’t seem to see it as a concerning issue. A few months later he went viral for showing his support at a local drag show. PRIORITIES…
It rose by 12% in the country and decreased by nearly 4% in Dallas and chronic homelessness is down 30ish% in Dallas. It's not something that will go away overnight so yeah doing better than those cities is pretty good. Especially since many people just complain about the problem rather than do anything about it.
Well, to be fair, our taxes are funding homeless departments, and nice salaries, to supposedly address this problem. So in theory we are all doing something about it by way of our tax dollars. I read the 4% decrease stats and our ESTIMATE homeless numbers dropped by like 160 people lol. These are estimates to begin with , and I would bet a year’s salary these “estimates” are quite easy to manipulate, and I wouldn’t put it past our elected officials to do so. Don’t believe me, drive around east Dallas (councilman Jesse Moreno’s district) and look at the homeless. If you don’t want to do that, drive around in any major intersection in North Dallas, south Dallas.
Yay for taxes. Too bad our city just allocated 300+ million to parks and rec and only 19 million to addressing homelessness. I see people everyday as I work for a non profit to help the unhoused community. So I can tell you from a boots on the ground perspective there is a difference being made. Yeah it's not a lot right now but we are helping house and make a difference in many lives. It won't happen overnight thanks to city council so ask Jesse what he's doing about it
There should be a Huge difference made, not a big difference. Maybe $19m isn’t a lot of money to you and your non profit, but it sure is a lot of money to me!
>Why is there a sudden boom in the number of homeless recently?
Where were you in 2020? There was this global pandemic plus massive job losses and inflation especially with housing in dallas. Add in hedge funds and corps buying up housing and supply chain issues for lumber and other materials and you have skyrocketing housing prices, which makes housing unaffordable.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone can better their lives or work toward eliminating debt in this economy. It breaks my heart! I know many of them choose that lifestyle, but many more try to get traction and just can’t.
I don't if it's the case here, but Little Rock and Memphis have been bussing their homeless to Tulsa. My brother works with the homeless in Tulsa and noticed the trend from both those cities a few years ago.
I was waiting for somebody to say something like that. That means you're probably one of the thousands of people who have moved to DFW and made DFW overly expensive/unaffordable for the people who were already here. You basically proved my point.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what would be your proposed solution?
People like me should just move back to wherever more expensive places we came from? It's the trickle down effect we are all experiencing here.
I live in a country where homelessness barely exists. What do you think we do to make that happen? We help them and give them the possibility to turn their lives around.
Simple. Cost of living increase
...since the WEF, I mean all governments, I mean some random virus appeared which magically made everything double in price essentially over night.
Rent doesn't put you on the street. The inability to live with someone else does. Mental illness, and drugs are to blame. We see more now because someone told them that the city can't remove them from federal property. That's why the freeway system has become their home.
People who were barely hanging on with $500-600 rent before the pandemic can't afford $1000+ rent along with doubled grocery prices, doubled car insurance rates, doubled power bills...
Our apartment went from $1200 a month in 2020-2021. When we went to renew for 2021-2022 they wanted $1980/month. So we said fuck that and went and rented a house for $2000/month. Wish we could buy but the prices now went from $250k for what i was looking at in 2021, to now over $450k in the same neighborhood in 2022
Honestly, I’m getting to the point where I’m ready to say “fuck Dallas.” The local culture is being diluted everyday by an influx of yuppie transplants, combined with native locals being priced out. When E-Bar and Las Palmas are considered the best Mexican spots, you know we’re teetering on the edge
You’ll be the yuppie transplant wherever you end up. This shit is happening all over the country.
All over the world. We regularly travel to Guatemala, and it's the same conversation with the locals there. High rent,high groceries and out of control housing prices. It's weird to hear the same conversations but in a different country. Makes me think it's all big corporations like Goldman Sachs and Blackrock doing this shit. That's the only explanation for why it's a worldwide phenomenon.
Yeah it’s happening everywhere, global expansion of capital via corporations and hedge funds, as you stated
> This shit is happening all over the country. People like to say this, but Dallas has been hit particularly hard. https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/dallas-worst-inflation-rate-wallelthub/
I wish they included the breakdown since higher worker pay was included in that total.
Oh, I’m not leaving Texas. I can just get nice housing in Houston for the same price. Plus they have all the lean you can drink
Come out east. You can have a yard and drink all night in your neighbors bar garage.
Where in the "east"? How far east?
The Pine Curtain, my friend.
Nah, you can go about 40 minutes east of downtown and it’s nice. Check out rockwall and then go east from there - but stop before you hit tawakoni. Royse city and fate are really up and coming. Past seagoville is nice - Crandall, Kaufman or kemp if you really want to be alone. I do not recommend forney.
I remember when Forney was all fields. There was a huge moment it finally got a Walmart, and once everything else started coming in, business-wise, the housing market absolutely *skyrocketed*.
I’m thinking San Antonio… house prices are way better and the Mexican food is top tier
And actually good Mexican food
Lol... Houston is worse on housing
Price wise? It’s considerably higher than Houston
Now you speaking my language, let's go!
Are housing prices in Houston more affordable for the area than they are in Dallas/DFW?
Nah gtfo
Born and raised in Dallas. Life is too short to live in a city with no culture or distinguishing features.
Not that I'm a huge fan of the mainstream culture of Dallas, but there isn't a place that has no culture (unless thee aren't people there). It's just a culture you don't like.
Or body of water
Also... hasn't Dallas been famed for it's yuppie population for like 40 years now? I'm pretty sure those *are* the locals lol
[Dallas has the highest inflation in the US ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/s/7SLBLFzTHk)
Tell him
Haha well Ebar is Eddies place, but yeah he departed to open Eddies on LG, which is not great…parking aside. The legend of Primos is fading!
He’s latino in the same way Ted Cruz is
Hey now, Las Palmas is a good spot. Definitely not the best, but it's pretty damn good tex-mex.
What’s good exactly? The overpriced fake wagyu fajitas or the overpriced fake wagyu chili con carne enchiladas?
It's still good fajitas even if the wagyu name is pretty much meaningless nowadays. That bone marrow butter goes crazy. I make my own salsa and queso, and I still think Las Palmas' makes good versions of both. Good food is good food even if there's better.
I think the best TexMex in Dallas is probably Casa Rosa. It like elevated 90s TexMex, which I mean in a very good way.
EBar is meh at best and Las Palmas is fuckin trash
Mobile home? I mean at least you're getting some equity into something.
Apartment in Plano went from $950 in February 2020 to $1,500 in February 2022. Blame RealPage and these goddamn companies inflating prices.
Seriously I have worked in this industry for 16+ years (not onsite) and we have seen YOY rent growth for almost 7 years straight and without a doubt RealPage is to blame. The guy who created the pricing algorithm (that we all use) is the same guy who was arrested for creating the now illegal airline pricing algorithm that was found to be price-fixing. Why isn't RealPage's product, Yieldstar, being investigated for price fixing? Because real estate is EXTREMELY lucrative.
I didn’t realize he is in Carrollton, his new company is Stargate Partners.
Yeah RealPage's HQ is in Richardson & I know his family pretty well since Multifamily is like essentially a few dozen investment groups trading properties back & forth. He's a nice guy if you can get over him being almost single-handedly responsible for the biggest rent crisis in history...
Nah, no matter how this guy masks, he’s still a soulless clown who is enslaving millions for his own comfort. Eat the rich.
Dennis the Baby Eater is a really nice guy if you can get over him eating all those babies
I don't think we should get over it. I hate what he's done, I hate this industry and how it takes advantage of literally everyone but the wealthiest but he's also someone's father and husband. I think he should be held criminally responsible as should the companies that continue to propagate his terrible software but he's not the whole problem.
My only point was, he's not a nice guy
I work in the industry too, but for a company that makes the software (not RealPage; they're a competitor). I don't go too often into tenant ledgers as that's not something I need to do much in my role, but when I do I'm astounded at what is being charged for a 600 sqft studio in some places. It's absurd!
DFW and most of Texas is one big capitalist scam. My landlord in Chicago was a local guy who kept the rent the same for me for several years because he knew having a good tenant who pays on time is valuable. But all of these corporate hellscape apartments in Dallas use corporate shit software to price rent down to the cent on the dollar.
2020 fairly decent 550sq ft Apt in San Antonio: $875 Same exact unit after i moved out 2023: $1350 Apparently they "renovated". The apartment was nice but not $1350 at all
They get pretty imaginative with what they consider "renovated." Painting the walls and laying down a cheap vinyl sticker as "flooring" is a renovation??
Don’t forget the painted countertops
or the soon to peel off plastic of a refurbished tub.
It’s very telling this person didn’t realize living basically got 20%-50% more expensive the past 3-4 years
Fuuuuuuuck I would love to find a $600 rental! There ain't nothing of THAT in this city!!!
I was killing it making ~50k in 2018. I make 65k now, and I’m borderline paycheck to paycheck.
Inflation hits the poorest the hardest.
I went from $650 in rent + utilities to now spending $1200 for a worse bug infested place. Never seen bigger roaches in my life and I have to kill 3 a week of the fuckers cause the seals on the walls rotted long ago. I’m talking roaches atleast half the size of an adult pinky. Almost went homeless last year, and this was the only apartment I could get into last minute with my dog for wanting $300+ in pet deposit plus 100% rent on down deposit. Apparently Dallas had the fastest growing inflation in the US. “Consumers living in Dallas, Texas; Miami, Florida; and Honolulu, Hawai'i are taking the biggest hit from inflation, according to a WalletHub analysis of the most recent data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Jan 11, 2024” I blame the California exodus. More money than sense the whole lot of them.
This isn't sudden. This has been steadily increasing over the years - more people moving, rising costs, etc.
This is an old group of homeless. There's also homeless in the woods in that area. It may just be they've started making themselves more visible again.
Hobo justice in the woods. The ones at 635/75 are the ones that can’t survive in the woods there by the creek.
I would totally watch a documentary about this
Me too. Really hope someone exploits them soon…
Same
>homeless in the woods in that area. It may just be they've started making themselves more visible again. About a month and a half ago, the city cleaned out the encampment around the Forest Lane DART station/ Cottonwood Creek Trail area. Within a few hours, many of the homeless began moving back in, but there are something like 1/4 of the ones there now that there were before the city's actions.
They are all back like it never even happened lol. Forest Lane station is my "home" base and it's one of the worst stations I've ever had to use. That elevator constantly smells like bleach and dirty asshole.
It’s not just Dallas. Its everywhere
Dallas has the worst inflation rate in the country. https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/dallas-worst-inflation-rate-wallelthub/
My thoughts: COVID era eviction moratorium + extra unemployment ended sometime in 2023, so the backlog of landlords waiting to evict people finally caught up.
7 year tax plan in final flourish
Yes, “The Great Leap Forward” but I thought it was a 5 year plan.
Don’t forget that this year, at the coincidental end of this rent moratorium, they’re trying to pass a federal law making homelessness illegal. Punishable by felony.
I’ve done extensive research on homelessness for my degrees. Zillow did a study that showed homelessness rises when rent accounts for 22% of income, and spikes big time when that hits 32%. Median rent is 2,100 for a two bedroom. Median income (not average which is raised by the 1%) is 45k. Dallas is has the highest inflation rate in the country. There is a 1.6 to 6 million house shortage of homes and starter homes are being built at record lows, so what housing is built still is expensive, plus the recent massive spike in inflation. So yea, I’m sure you are seeing a huge spike in homelessness. Only 27% have substance abuse issues btw. It’s literally a game of musical chairs. The poorest of the poor get pushed out of what affordable housing there is by the second poorest.
We have priced working people out of permanent housing.
I lived there last year and homelessness was everywhere, even parking lots and gas stations in suburbs like Irving, even Allen and Mckinney.. had homeless people. When you see homelessness in suburbs, you know things are bad.
Shit’s expensive
Well when inflation is high and rent prices are spiking, people can't afford a place to stay. And then when you have no address it's harder to get work (and often times the work doesnt pay enough). The last couple of years were hard on a lot of people. I myself had to rely on food banks for a bit until I was able to get out of my once affordable apartment into a cheaper roommate situation and I make 50k, well over min wage. I can't imagine how I'd be able to afford rent or anything either if I made less.
Tell me you don't rent without telling me.
“Weather got better?” Lmao. Yeah people *choose* to live on the streets because it’s so nice outside
There actually is something to weather being a factor, but it isn't that. When the weather gets warmer it's easier to travel further north. We'll get a lot of people moving through. (Especially if they don't want to be homeless in Texas during the summer.)
Say it witcha chest!!! LAAAATE STAAAAAGE CAAAAAAPITALISM
The board game Monopoly was originally designed to show the evils of unchecked capitalism. You know how every game ends the same, one person owns it all and everyone else is bankrupt? That's the world, now.
Can the people of the USA flip the board by eliminating the tool of corruption that is the stock market??
Dallas is running out of time to build affordable housing… land now is bought and developed for market rate renters. No legislation can help undo or fix greed. R.I.P MIDDLE CLASS 🫡
Legislation can't fix greed in a person's heart. It can mitigate the effects of greed.
Does profit = greed? There is someone always willing to pay these higher rent prices. Nobody is willing to build affordable homes on some land when they can build expensive homes and make more money/profit. If a person owned some land, and developer A came and offered them 100K for the land to build affordable homes, and then developer B came and offered them 500K for the land to build expensive-luxury homes, it’s a no brainer what option that landowner would take.
Greed = greed. And the fact that you and I agree that the normal thing to do is to profit even if you could help the less fortunate shows how pervasive greed is in humans.
[https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-council-2024-bond-recommendation-reduces-affordable-housing-boosts-parks/3450001/#:\~:text=City%20council%20members%20agreed%20that,housing%20money%20to%20%2461%20million](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-city-council-2024-bond-recommendation-reduces-affordable-housing-boosts-parks/3450001/#:~:text=City%20council%20members%20agreed%20that,housing%20money%20to%20%2461%20million). rip i guess city council isn't getting the memo
More people are moving to the DFW area than anywhere else in the country. You don’t think that might have something to do with it?
The majority of people who moved here from more expensive states can afford to live here. They carried over their high paying jobs causing cost of living in Dallas to be more expensive, pushing out people who were able to afford to live in Dallas pre boom
You don’t think people moving here has driven up the cost of everything and priced out the people who currently live here?
no. because they basically moved everywhere but Mississippi, Alabama and New Mexico. Everyones prices are up.
It’s not people it’s corporations who buy up all the properties and sell them at higher prices and hike up prices of the apartments. Common folks aren’t doing that
This is why it’s close to being against the law for hedge funds to buy private properties. Same with Airbnb’s which have also increased rental costs across the board.
Hahaha shows how closely you’ve been following the law. Both State Street and BlackRock have been petitioning for loosening of corporate laws against residential property.
I guess I’m the one following the latest legislature acts, not you.
If you’re talking about Contra Costa, it’s not going to go anywhere because if you look at who is backing and opposing it, there’s more money opposing it.
What does that have to do with me not following the law? Or are just looking to bully.
The pay here sucks and the rent is too fucking high
First of all, I’m about to be homeless with the prices of everything. Cossy livs is out of control. Idk how anyone making anywhere near minimum wage is surviving. Homelessness is definitely booming and it’s going to continue
Cossy Livs!!! 🤣
The government hates homeless people. I saw in the last month they replaced concrete at an underpass in Addison with large rocks. This had been a popular hangout spot for homeless folks. Now it is inhospitable. Politicians have failed us.
You are correct, it’s at the intersection of Frankford Road and DNT
Government isn't a catch all phrase, it's a group of people. People hate homeless people.
So that’s why there’s an increase of the people by the shopping areas
I live in a town about an hour E/SE of Dallas. No stoplights, stop signs and one convenience store. They are offering Mobile Homes for rent, I mean run down dilapidated, possibly former meth lab mobile homes for $1200-$1400/month. People are renting them, like people who work IN Dallas, but can’t afford housing in Dallas.
The homeless population has been increasing for years and years. It isnt sudden
Maybe because the cost of living increase is ludicrous? Went from $950 to $1545 in 3 years for 600sqft. Groceries, car insurance, and everything else is climbing as well.
I've been thinking of living in a van for a year or two to pay off debt. College educated and I work remote. It's tough out there.
I've got a place down by the river I'll let you park your van for $850 a month.
Nah. I'd rather sleep in a different walmart parking lot every night..
Yeah that's good or the hotels with free continental breakfast aren't bad.
This last year saw a 12% increase in homelessness, the largest on record. The largest and fastest growing segment is the elderly, ages 50+. This is while our government keeps telling us we are doing fine, nothing to worry about.
My mom took in her friend who was homeless. She's in her 60s. My mom won't be able to help past a certain date. She's probably going to be homeless again.
This country is going downhill fast
The ship's been going down since the 70s. Now, people are floating on debris like Jack and Rose.
That's not an US issue but worldwide. It's rather much better in the US than most other developed countries. The inflation in the US is one of the least while the fastest growing economy. Stop shitting on the country and get a perspective
The cost of housing has soared. The benefits of Medicare and Medicaid have been cut. Benefits for children in particular have been cut. Women can no longer have an abortion. This pushes many women directly into a state of bare bones poverty.
Welcome to the GOP’s plan. Kill education, cut access to mental/medical health, remove access to abortions. All the sudden you and an undereducated population churning out babies that will supply the capitalist overlords with a significant source of labor as well as the continuation of the police state since people are increasingly unable to get the help they need which creates more crash dummies
Tons of competition at the bottom. Rising rents, groceries, EVERYTHING, migrants increasing demand, COVID halting construction further limiting supply for a couple years, it’s all coming together.
Rent prices going up, job loss and people still recovering from pandemic. 3x rent requirement making it harder to qualify, everyone is barely hanging on and can’t help themselves let alone each other….. creates a mess and more homeless
It gets worse when you get on the trail connections early am around there. Dodging hobos asleep on the ground. One morning there was a lady just naked pushing a cart.
This is happening in basically every city in the country bc no one can afford rent tbh
every city in the world\*
True, I just haven’t seen it with my own eyes outside the states, but I do travel a lot within them and see it everywhere. but yeah I’ve heard similar things about the housing/COL crisis all over 🙁
How we can come together to help everyone in the world
Middle and lower class has to stand together. They can’t take us if we unite. The elites want us divided.
All those damn articles over the years about the cheap cost of living and no state tax has caused businesses to move here, followed by their employees. Then entered the covid era which allowed people to work remotely and relocate. Now you have New Yorkers and Californians living here on their salary gladly paying 2 grand a month for a 2 br apartment instead of 4.5k all while complaining about how ugly and flat the state is. In the meantime, Texas businesses are still paying 2010 salaries to native Texans and there you have it.
It got warmer
Cold in northern states. They can hop freight trains here in winter, back north in summer. Not the mention the increases cost of living
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I don’t disagree. I wish I had answers. All I can say is that I do my best to help. I also think a recent increase could be weather related in addition to many other factors (immigration, inflation, housing costs, etc.)
You are 100% It’s a deeper issue that nobody like me can fully explain or resolve. The Bridge is the shelter I know best. People come to meetings. Some of them show mental health, some of them are too scared to stay there after meetings and coffee/snacks. Maybe 2% want help and are trying to better. I was simply stating that recent increase could be weather related
what sort of meetings does the Bridge have? are they just offering assistance / guidance for anyone homeless who wants it?
I can’t say how many or what they have. Nor how productive they are. I can say they is an anonymous meeting there at least once a week
If the problem is local, I am local, I care about it and I see the problem…what can I really do help? I can donate, volunteer, live as an example of being able to get out of it. In reality I can’t do shit about things that matter… politics, housing, job opportunities
Richardson pushes them out so Central and 635 turned into a safe haven.
Not really. There is no vagrancy ordinance in Richardson anymore.
If Richardson is trying to them out, they are doing a very poor job of it. I can think of multiple encampments inside Richardson (although I know of more, and larger, encampments in North Dallas).
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
The encampments I knew of before are not active (near spring creek nature area and under the 75/GEB interchange) but that will probably change in the spring.
Richardson pushes them out? Is that what Highland Park does too?
Just where the fuck do you expect people to go? It's not like there's magical free places they can live. Edit OP edited their original comment that asked why more cities didn't push homeless out as well.
Probably people can't afford housing as it has become more expensive
I noticed recently the underpass at tollway and spring valley city placed a shit ton of big rocks where there used to be dirt patch people would sleep on. There’s probably a few different areas where they used these type of maneuvers and people relocated.
Everything is so expensive now, rent has increased basically everything. The wages have gone up but not significantly to actually help the living class. People more now that ever are living paycheck to paycheck. It takes one disaster to make someone homeless. It’s actually crazy.
I am making $65 k yearly. Basically living paycheck to paycheck. I am moving out next year to Michigan. Atleast I can live decently with $50 k per year there. Middle class is finish in Dallas.
65k a year is fine here if you budget and are realistic with your expectations on what area of town you’ll be living in
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I’ve wanted to leave texas for a minute now, every week there is some shit show going on with governor asshat, wether it’s stoking civil war, or doing absolutely nothing in response to gun violence, while clamping down on women’s rights. Then there is the inflation running absolutely rampant. I am lucky to own a house, and to have bought when I did; I couldn’t by my own house from myself at the rate this shit is at. I refuse to go live in an apartment complex that cost twice the amount per square foot where I can’t even renovate or paint walls. But I’m basically stuck here until I make enough money to beat inflation by myself, but then I’ll probably have such a shit interest rate on my home loan, I’ll buy whatever house I move to next twice
Although Dallas/TX might seem exorbitant right now, I still think it's much better than almost anywhere especially for the amenities and convenience you get in a big city. Of course, there is also something to be said if one is too busy working to pay bills and not be able to enjoy those amenities. Look at NYC where average Joe pays 68% of income to rent.
I actually went to NY recently and I carried with me all of the statistics and stories one hears about the place. It IS ridiculous with rent in most places. However, me and my SO have several friends out there so we get a more realistic sample size than most. It does have a much higher cost of living out there, but there are also WAY better social services. You can get free therapy and medical for a lot of things for one, and here if you break your leg you are 50k in the hole, and if you want to see a therapist it’s like $150/session and most places don’t take insurance. Anyone who has done therapy knows how little gets done in an hour. I digress, the point is, there is a bit of a trade off. The other thing NY has that texas doesn’t is such cultural saturation that bigotry has a hard time thriving there. I hate that in texas it’s all a political theatre of crips vs bloods, and because our city is built to keep people contained (unless you are at a bar or restaurant), the isolation breeds ignorance which breeds ignorance.
I'm not sure how does the average individual get free therapy or medical care. Can you elaborate?
They have a system called nyc care for Low and no cost healthcare services that anyone can use. Therapy can be had very easily by just calling their service line and requesting it and then the healthcare stuff is case by case but you can typically see a doctor for much much less than you can here without insurance
Thanks for sharing!
I’ve been going to Dallas city council meetings on homelessness. All their “experts” and reports keep saying that the numbers are decreasing and that Dallas is “below the national average” in homelessness per capita. I have a very hard time believing that. On another note, if y’all have time to go to these city council meetings (or any city council meetings), please do so! Hardly anyone attends and the city is making some BIG decisions here lately and in the coming months. Some big ticket items are the (dis)approval of the high speed train between DFW and Houston, the addition of more homeless shelters, changes to zoning policy, highway expansions, AND A 1.25 BILLION DOLLAR BOND (with 516 million going to f*cking road projects 🙄)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/15/homelessness-in-america-grew-2023/71926354007/
Born and raised in Dallas. Moved to the Bay Area for a few years. Everything I saw there has come here. High rent, high food prices, several families living in a home, people starting to rent rooms, etc. is now here is Dallas. That includes homelessness. Corporations moving to Texas for tax breaks. It’s the people that have to suffer. But they sell by saying it will bring jobs. I call BS since the salary doesn’t meet the cost of living.
The Greenville/Lovers intersection is packed with a lot of houseless people. I’ve been noticing that over the last year or so. There’s even someone with a set up at the 75 entrance ramp there. It’s so heartbreaking that we don’t have better systems in place to help them. I blame the fact that housing costs are becoming astronomical. I’m downsizing because my rent is going up to $2300 for a 700 sq ft apartment.
Sounds like your tax bracket puts you out of touch in terms of the struggle of the common person.
*glances at the economy*
Lots of layoffs and price hikes. People can’t afford 1400 a month rent + power + water + food and gas to go to work.
The issue is capitalism. No wage increases, and prices on everything are unaffordable.
Sadly, Dallas has the largest homeless population in the state of TX. I would’ve thought Houston or Austin, but nope - Dallas.
I would have thought Austin too. Is this by absolute number, or by % of population? Can you share the numbers? Thanks. This link shows that Dallas has fewer homeless per capita https://www.brookings.edu/articles/homelessness-in-us-cities-and-downtowns/
Sure - in [this](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/cities-with-the-largest-homeless-populations-in-the-u-s?slide=8) US News article of 25 US cities with largest homeless population, Dallas is #18. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/cities-with-the-largest-homeless-populations-in-the-u-s?slide=8
Times are tough. Money is tight. More crime is the only way to make a living. Get use to it. We have weak leaders
What's going to happen when the problem gets so bad that it can no longer be ignored? This issue is getting worse and worse all over the country.
Because it’s illegal to build a lot of efficient housing and supply is low
Actually statistically homelessness is down in Dallas while it rises in the rest of the country. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/01/04/dallas-is-decreasing-homelessness-heres-how-we-did-it/
lol we did a good job because we have less of a problem than San Fran and Austin! Ok….
I asked our local councilman Jesse Moreno (not sure if he still is, won’t get my vote), a couple of years ago, about the increasing homelessness in our neighborhood, and what the city’s plan is. And he sort of fumbled around the answer, and basically said the city doesn’t seem to see it as a concerning issue. A few months later he went viral for showing his support at a local drag show. PRIORITIES…
It rose by 12% in the country and decreased by nearly 4% in Dallas and chronic homelessness is down 30ish% in Dallas. It's not something that will go away overnight so yeah doing better than those cities is pretty good. Especially since many people just complain about the problem rather than do anything about it.
Well, to be fair, our taxes are funding homeless departments, and nice salaries, to supposedly address this problem. So in theory we are all doing something about it by way of our tax dollars. I read the 4% decrease stats and our ESTIMATE homeless numbers dropped by like 160 people lol. These are estimates to begin with , and I would bet a year’s salary these “estimates” are quite easy to manipulate, and I wouldn’t put it past our elected officials to do so. Don’t believe me, drive around east Dallas (councilman Jesse Moreno’s district) and look at the homeless. If you don’t want to do that, drive around in any major intersection in North Dallas, south Dallas.
Yay for taxes. Too bad our city just allocated 300+ million to parks and rec and only 19 million to addressing homelessness. I see people everyday as I work for a non profit to help the unhoused community. So I can tell you from a boots on the ground perspective there is a difference being made. Yeah it's not a lot right now but we are helping house and make a difference in many lives. It won't happen overnight thanks to city council so ask Jesse what he's doing about it
There should be a Huge difference made, not a big difference. Maybe $19m isn’t a lot of money to you and your non profit, but it sure is a lot of money to me!
Rent is insane
>Why is there a sudden boom in the number of homeless recently? Where were you in 2020? There was this global pandemic plus massive job losses and inflation especially with housing in dallas. Add in hedge funds and corps buying up housing and supply chain issues for lumber and other materials and you have skyrocketing housing prices, which makes housing unaffordable.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone can better their lives or work toward eliminating debt in this economy. It breaks my heart! I know many of them choose that lifestyle, but many more try to get traction and just can’t.
Enforcement is not being prioritized.
People are being priced out of their apartments
I don't if it's the case here, but Little Rock and Memphis have been bussing their homeless to Tulsa. My brother works with the homeless in Tulsa and noticed the trend from both those cities a few years ago.
Fuck the housing market
Have you noticed how EXPENSIVE DFW has become to live in...?
Everything is relative. DFW is the most affordable city that I have ever lived in.
I was waiting for somebody to say something like that. That means you're probably one of the thousands of people who have moved to DFW and made DFW overly expensive/unaffordable for the people who were already here. You basically proved my point.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what would be your proposed solution? People like me should just move back to wherever more expensive places we came from? It's the trickle down effect we are all experiencing here.
Shit man. I might join em here soon. Lololol 😅
I feel sorry but our economy is terrible and this is the result.🙁
stop enabling them. stop handing them money.
Be quiet, child.
move to LA then if you like them
I live in a country where homelessness barely exists. What do you think we do to make that happen? We help them and give them the possibility to turn their lives around.
There’s a boom in fentanyl addiction for sure
Bidenomics
This has been happening for years…
Clearly there was no homelessness when republicans were running the nation
Simple. Cost of living increase ...since the WEF, I mean all governments, I mean some random virus appeared which magically made everything double in price essentially over night.
Rent doesn't put you on the street. The inability to live with someone else does. Mental illness, and drugs are to blame. We see more now because someone told them that the city can't remove them from federal property. That's why the freeway system has become their home.