I guess the answer here is for women to return to subsidizing the male lifestyle, which would not exist if women didn’t massively subsidize it by doing men’s cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, and all other manner of life organizing.
sorry this has been weighing on me for so long and i can’t hold it in a more. if you have one other sibling you’re barely BARELY experiencing what it’s like to be the oldest or youngest child.. you need AT LEAST one middle to create a real dynamic!!
Be in love, go to the aquarium. Eat the Korean fried chicken. Go to the park, next visit the aquarium. Laugh in the rain. Go on a long walk, to the aquarium. Have sushi with a Sapporo, hit the bar at noon. Feel the breeze on your skin. Get a shark tooth necklace at the aquarium.
This is why your housing is so expensive
Not Blackstone, not "greedy landlords"
Just your mom, dad, & neighbors voting for NIMBY local politicians who then prevent housing from being built
That's why you pay tens of thousands of dollars more than you need to
Simple as that
If you sincerely care about the cause of rent affordability, there's one -- and only one -- solution widely supported by data, academics and practitioners: Build more housing.
Check this out: Rents are falling where we built a lot of apartments. Rents rising where we didn't.
Republicans from hundreds of miles away hate everything about NYC except 9/11, which they didn't actually experience but still leech to stoke hatred and division.