Kinda missing the point here aren't they? The fact they consider his $800+ rent too LOW is clear indicator that the rent is indeed too damned high everywhere ELSE in New York.
What's amazing and enormously ironic is when $872 per month for a crappy little rent-controlled apartment is considered "too low." That means the rent is too damn high, folks.
Lol i live in Manhattan, and the rent has always been too damn high. 800 a month is incredibly cheap. My first apartment was $1400 a month and it was still a shit hole.
Yeah I'm paying 400 a month for an apartment filled with mold. Rent is too damn high for good quality. Rent is not controled by any government agency, all apartments are raised when other angencies raise the rent. therefore they fight for higher prices... How is that fair for renters if no one can properly control rent. to set a true minimum. why do the poor have to live in shit?
I'm just amazed at the rents mentioned in the comments. I knew rent was high in the US, but 2200 for a two bedroom apartment? How can you even earn the salary to pay for that? My boyfriend and I live in a two bedroom as well, 20min from Stockholm City and it's only about $6-700 (more like 900 now that the $ is super low) and I consider that "normal", not even cheap. We would probably have a hard time paying more than $1000, and that's with combined incomes.
I didn't know who was Jimmy McMillan before I watch this video, so when I saw the screenshot for this video, I thought it was a image of Kenan Thompson in a SNL sketch lol
I'm reading all of these comments about rent being $800 $1000 a month and I'm like HOLY SHIT! I'm paying $875 a month for my mortgage for a 5 bedroom house! MOVE TO ND AND YOU CAN LIVE IN A HOUSE FOR WHAT YOU'RE PAYING! We got jobs left and right here!
My rent is too damn high. I'm paying $525 for a one bedroom apartment. windows are warped to were they can't close fully. Every door to the out side has a lot of openings. I have to keep my thermostat at 60 deg. to keep the rooms at 80 deg. The washer That I rented through my apartment broke down in mid wash and I asked them to remove it...4 months ago. It is still here and mold is in it. To top it off my electrisity is around $260 because of the air conditioner. God fucking damn it.
We have a four bedroom two story house with two and a halve bathrooms for only $250 a month. Here everything is cheap, Every once and a while they try to put some kind of government housing down here and then all the landlords will be forced by the state to triple our rent. I happened once and we got them the hell out of here. We circulate our money.
800 dollars divided by 8 dollars / hr = 100 hours of work at minimum wage... per month. This figure does not represent any taxes deducted from wages. The average worker works 40 hours per week or 160 hours per month. 63% of all work done each month going to rent means.... THE RENT IS TOOO DAMN HIGH!
"rent control is not the right policy" this dude is borderline incompetent. and this reporting is entirely vapid. they set up the premise that he was kicked out because it isn't his primary residence, then just go off on some lame tangent of dribble drabble. get these fools outta here I want Jimmy.
It didnt make his campaign ironic at all ! he was all about the rent being too damn high so people couldnt spend to increase the economy, as a result of low rent he got evicted, so the next person in could be charged MORE MONEY thus rent = too damn high. Some people need to learn irony.
While rent control has issues. I would argue that a free marked in cities also has issues in regards to high prices. While the saying is that you would build more apartments to respond to demand. It dose not,profit wise, make sense to respond to the marked to much because that would only lower you companies profit margin pr unit by lowering demand. Its a double edged sword. Why make hundreds of apartments and gain a low price if I can make a few and force people to pay "beyond their means"?
@CmdrTobs I don't know whether you still think my responses sound priggish and trollish, but I just wanted to clarify who said what. I'm glad that you agree my reference to monetary 'inflation' is correct usage. I don't claim to have a Masters in Economics, as at least one other person on here has claimed. I just wish more people would exercise proper grammar and usage, construct clearer sentences, stop making excuses they 'mistyped' things and stop claiming they hold degrees they don't have.
I don't even get why costs of living have to vary so much within a first world nation. A bowl of cup noodles cost three for a buck fifty no matter where you go... poor people living in SF and NYC shitholes, live off that, save for travel and move to a cheaper place (but still large town like Cleveland or Indy) pick up a temp job there. My friend moved to Kansas, worked at a Taco Bell to live cheap and save for a decent home when he came back to Chicago.
I don't even get why rent should go up in the first place... I mean its not like the person who bought the building had to pay more every year, their mortgage isn't increasing every year... Sure their taxes might a bit, but that still doesn't justify it, everyone taxes always increases... Its just another way to make the rich richer...
@CmdrTobs Commander, I know 'at' tags can be confusing, but I'm actually the one who brought up the broader concept of inflation and said "inflated housing prices in Europe are much worse." The person I was responding to in that post had said, "Do you not understand why rents in Manhattan are a lot higher then [sic] where you are in Slackjaw Georgia?" in response to my comment that when $872 per month is considered 'too low,' that means the rent is too damn high, folks.
An apartment that's $872/month in Manhattan? That's not bad (cause I heard they're extremely high for one person). Then again for me I should be lucky. My apartment is $490/month. (College, down south)..
@CmdrTobs Rent in Stockholm is pretty heavy regulated, and we actually have a lot of the problems that Cenk mentions, people holding on to their contracts and so on. But I just didn't think people in the US earned enough to pay that kind of rent,
I see alot of the comments saying how is it so high in nyc.. well you can not compare nyc to any other city. Especially comparing Manhattan (a section of nyc) to Staten island, or Brooklyn (another section). you can literally walk outside your apt at 4 am in the morning and find something or buy something you want.. the city literally never sleeps. Its not the same anywhere else. even in other cities in New York State and other states.. To people in NYSTATE living in Manhattan is pretty big time
@hanksnow82 Yes, I comprehend why rent is extremely inflated in large metropolitan areas, not only in New York and specifically Manhattan but around the world, but that still doesn't mean the rent isn't too damn high. Even in rural areas, where there are mostly houses, not apartments, people are charging rent of $800 or more for a crappy little house because, well, that's how much the mortgage payment is. Have you ever been outside the USA? The inflated housing prices in Europe are much worse.
Actually... I don't it makes his campaign ironic at all. His rent is too low & he wish others to have low rent as well... it would be ironic if he is campaign to get higher rent.
I love how we are so suckered by the wealthy that people think it's not enough for someone to pay $800 a month to live, I don't know the apartment building he is in, but I'm guessing it's not a luxury apt, so if you want to live large you should have that option, but if you can't afford it (I'm not talking about Jimmy, I'm talking about the American working poor) then you should have that option too. Sorry Cenk, I think you are totally off base on this one!
@Capng123 No, the point was his rent was to low (even though the place he was living at set it up that way) and the place he was living at is trying to kick him out because of that... You're the one who missed the point
I had a friend who lived in an efficiency on the lower East side above a Chinese deli in 2001 and he paid $850, but it was a shit hole. Nonetheless, it's probably going for over a grand a month now.
the captions are even more annoying now than they used to be. plus they are completely useless since they have almost nothing to do w/ what is being said. why bother?
This guy along with most are always out of touch with people...$800 is not too low thats still to fucking high..And the lower east side is not a glamerous part of Manhatten, it's about as nice as Harlem to be honest......:)
@LuDimezofKush in new york it's amazing. small apartments go for thousands (the ones not in the ghetto). even in my neighborhood apartments are around 1100 for the cheapest. Really depends on where you live, major cities go for higher
Not sure that you got this one right Cenk, if you have an apartment when at the time of the rental due to the economy or other pressures you were asked to buy into a program that created a rent controlled area which after that time is impacted by different pressures which makes it a more desirable area in which to live, how does that have anything to do with the original agreed to contract?? This would appear to be a bit of legal chicanery to try and break a Legally binding Agreement.
@hanksnow82 And yes, Hank Snow 82, I've been to Manhattan and other places around the world. I've never even heard of Slackjaw, Georgia, but in the schools I attended, they taught us the difference between 'than' and 'then.' They also taught us not to falsely assume a person's ability to understand things based on a perceived notion about where the person might be from. John Nash, the mathematical genius, and Homer Hickam, the NASA rocket scientist, were both from rural areas of West Virginia.
@BVargas78 True. The beauty of social housing pays for itself now & is pretty much proof of the enormous profits that are being made in the rental market when all the maintenance on the house + the rates can be covered by my $200 alone. There are 2 people living in this house including me so basically, to gov gets a profit from this house & many others. I am on a pension so it is not like I can just go out & get a job but if I did, the rent does go up according to what I would earn pro rata.
So... he was evicted so the rent could be too damn high.
It's kind of irrelevant, though. He's advocating on behalf of poor New Yorkers, not so much himself.
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There is no irony, he is being evicted because the landlord wants to charge a rent that is too high.
i can't belive he said the rent was too low... wtf society are we living in.
Kinda missing the point here aren't they? The fact they consider his $800+ rent too LOW is clear indicator that the rent is indeed too damned high everywhere ELSE in New York.
He was evicted why? The Rent is Too Damn High!
What's amazing and enormously ironic is when $872 per month for a crappy little rent-controlled apartment is considered "too low." That means the rent is too damn high, folks.
Prices will always be too damn low for the people who are making money. This is not even an argument.
Bernie should start 'Medical Bills are Too Damn High' party.
Lol i live in Manhattan, and the rent has always been too damn high. 800 a month is incredibly cheap. My first apartment was $1400 a month and it was still a shit hole.
Yeah I'm paying 400 a month for an apartment filled with mold. Rent is too damn high for good quality. Rent is not controled by any government agency, all apartments are raised when other angencies raise the rent. therefore they fight for higher prices...
How is that fair for renters if no one can properly control rent. to set a true minimum.
why do the poor have to live in shit?
I hate running into this damn channel when browsing UA-cam.
The rent is just too damn high!
way to low??? that is insanely high lol
i said it before and ill say it again, VOTE JIMMY, THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!
I'm just amazed at the rents mentioned in the comments. I knew rent was high in the US, but 2200 for a two bedroom apartment? How can you even earn the salary to pay for that? My boyfriend and I live in a two bedroom as well, 20min from Stockholm City and it's only about $6-700 (more like 900 now that the $ is super low) and I consider that "normal", not even cheap. We would probably have a hard time paying more than $1000, and that's with combined incomes.
You guys [TYT] have seriously degenerated since these days
I didn't know who was Jimmy McMillan before I watch this video, so when I saw the screenshot for this video, I thought it was a image of Kenan Thompson in a SNL sketch lol
800 dollars in one of the most expensive cities in the world is insane, if the landlord can get more money then surely he should try.
I'm reading all of these comments about rent being $800 $1000 a month and I'm like HOLY SHIT! I'm paying $875 a month for my mortgage for a 5 bedroom house!
MOVE TO ND AND YOU CAN LIVE IN A HOUSE FOR WHAT YOU'RE PAYING!
We got jobs left and right here!
the sad thing is that apartment would have been too high for me.
My rent is too damn high. I'm paying $525 for a one bedroom apartment. windows are warped to were they can't close fully. Every door to the out side has a lot of openings. I have to keep my thermostat at 60 deg. to keep the rooms at 80 deg. The washer That I rented through my apartment broke down in mid wash and I asked them to remove it...4 months ago. It is still here and mold is in it. To top it off my electrisity is around $260 because of the air conditioner. God fucking damn it.
i dont even pay rent i just hook up the weed
He can still care about others' rent being too damn high. Politicians don't only have a platform on things that directly affect them.
We have a four bedroom two story house with two and a halve bathrooms for only $250 a month. Here everything is cheap, Every once and a while they try to put some kind of government housing down here and then all the landlords will be forced by the state to triple our rent. I happened once and we got them the hell out of here. We circulate our money.
I'll always remember Jimmy fondly for his cameo as 'Lord Mayor of Pepperland' in the Yellow Submarine movie.
800 dollars divided by 8 dollars / hr = 100 hours of work at minimum wage... per month. This figure does not represent any taxes deducted from wages. The average worker works 40 hours per week or 160 hours per month. 63% of all work done each month going to rent means....
THE RENT IS TOOO DAMN HIGH!
"rent control is not the right policy" this dude is borderline incompetent. and this reporting is entirely vapid. they set up the premise that he was kicked out because it isn't his primary residence, then just go off on some lame tangent of dribble drabble. get these fools outta here I want Jimmy.
$800 dollars is LOW? What the heck? $500 dollars here, which is really high...but TN does have a lower living cost, I think :/
800 Dollars is low!?!? I guess I'm the only person who is out of touch with reality
It didnt make his campaign ironic at all ! he was all about the rent being too damn high so people couldnt spend to increase the economy, as a result of low rent he got evicted, so the next person in could be charged MORE MONEY thus rent = too damn high.
Some people need to learn irony.
I lived in Australia for a year... I was paying 180$ per week for a shared room, and I had a really cheap rent compared with my other school mates...
Wow my last 2 bedroom apt was less then that. Just says how crazy New York is
Couldn't agree more.
While rent control has issues.
I would argue that a free marked in cities also has issues in regards to high prices. While the saying is that you would build more apartments to respond to demand. It dose not,profit wise, make sense to respond to the marked to much because that would only lower you companies profit margin pr unit by lowering demand.
Its a double edged sword.
Why make hundreds of apartments and gain a low price if I can make a few and force people to pay "beyond their means"?
your avatar pic scared the shit out of me LOL I thought that damn spider was really on my screen LOL
i hate when i click on something that seems interesting and its the young turks
@CmdrTobs I don't know whether you still think my responses sound priggish and trollish, but I just wanted to clarify who said what. I'm glad that you agree my reference to monetary 'inflation' is correct usage. I don't claim to have a Masters in Economics, as at least one other person on here has claimed. I just wish more people would exercise proper grammar and usage, construct clearer sentences, stop making excuses they 'mistyped' things and stop claiming they hold degrees they don't have.
I don't even get why costs of living have to vary so much within a first world nation. A bowl of cup noodles cost three for a buck fifty no matter where you go... poor people living in SF and NYC shitholes, live off that, save for travel and move to a cheaper place (but still large town like Cleveland or Indy) pick up a temp job there. My friend moved to Kansas, worked at a Taco Bell to live cheap and save for a decent home when he came back to Chicago.
Next thing your going to tell me average rent in NYC is $2,000,000.00 that's the only way i can see 800 being too damn low.
I don't even get why rent should go up in the first place... I mean its not like the person who bought the building had to pay more every year, their mortgage isn't increasing every year... Sure their taxes might a bit, but that still doesn't justify it, everyone taxes always increases... Its just another way to make the rich richer...
yeh, its awesome cerk!.. he is homeless & yous are having great fun with it,...
What is funny is now they are going to raise it, so then the rent WILL be too damn high!
Without rent control we would've been spared Friends.
@CmdrTobs Commander, I know 'at' tags can be confusing, but I'm actually the one who brought up the broader concept of inflation and said "inflated housing prices in Europe are much worse." The person I was responding to in that post had said, "Do you not understand why rents in Manhattan are a lot higher then [sic] where you are in Slackjaw Georgia?" in response to my comment that when $872 per month is considered 'too low,' that means the rent is too damn high, folks.
AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THIS!
Ana Kasparian's sexiness is actually kinda overpowering.
My rent in Boston is $2,200 for a two bedroom apartment : /
An apartment that's $872/month in Manhattan? That's not bad (cause I heard they're extremely high for one person). Then again for me I should be lucky. My apartment is $490/month. (College, down south)..
Jimmy McMillan, don't ever mess with the God of Irony, the most powerful of all the deities.
This guy is my hero, screw these slum lords.
is rent high in cities like toronto, vancouver, london, manchester, perth?
@CmdrTobs Rent in Stockholm is pretty heavy regulated, and we actually have a lot of the problems that Cenk mentions, people holding on to their contracts and so on. But I just didn't think people in the US earned enough to pay that kind of rent,
move? wow I'm less then middle class at my peak, yes the rent is to damn high, and our pay is to damn low
I see alot of the comments saying how is it so high in nyc.. well you can not compare nyc to any other city. Especially comparing Manhattan (a section of nyc) to Staten island, or Brooklyn (another section). you can literally walk outside your apt at 4 am in the morning and find something or buy something you want.. the city literally never sleeps. Its not the same anywhere else. even in other cities in New York State and other states.. To people in NYSTATE living in Manhattan is pretty big time
they're automatically generated. you can turn them off.
He should win next time for the irony of it all.
one word to describe the situation: irony
rent is fucking horrible here. im 17 and i might move out of the city when im old enough. i REALLY love the city, but its expensive
$870 a month rent.......Can't Do it! (Mike Singletary Voice)
@hanksnow82 Yes, I comprehend why rent is extremely inflated in large metropolitan areas, not only in New York and specifically Manhattan but around the world, but that still doesn't mean the rent isn't too damn high. Even in rural areas, where there are mostly houses, not apartments, people are charging rent of $800 or more for a crappy little house because, well, that's how much the mortgage payment is. Have you ever been outside the USA? The inflated housing prices in Europe are much worse.
Actually... I don't it makes his campaign ironic at all. His rent is too low & he wish others to have low rent as well... it would be ironic if he is campaign to get higher rent.
I love how we are so suckered by the wealthy that people think it's not enough for someone to pay $800 a month to live, I don't know the apartment building he is in, but I'm guessing it's not a luxury apt, so if you want to live large you should have that option, but if you can't afford it (I'm not talking about Jimmy, I'm talking about the American working poor) then you should have that option too. Sorry Cenk, I think you are totally off base on this one!
The misspelling in CC IS TO DAMN HIGH!
shout outs to this man he aint sugar coat nothin tell it like it is!!!!
Our 4 bedroom is $870 :c
@Capng123 No, the point was his rent was to low (even though the place he was living at set it up that way) and the place he was living at is trying to kick him out because of that... You're the one who missed the point
If anything this justifies his argument because they want to charge a larger amount....dare I say an amount that is too damn high
I don't even earn that much money in a month. I earn just under 800$ and I can live of that. Than again I live in the Netherlands.
Land lord?WTF is that?You have very strange things in America.
I had a friend who lived in an efficiency on the lower East side above a Chinese deli in 2001 and he paid $850, but it was a shit hole. Nonetheless, it's probably going for over a grand a month now.
My rent is $1100 here in Miami this sucks he has lower rent in manhattan damn he's lucky
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! That's hilarious.
the captions are even more annoying now than they used to be. plus they are completely useless since they have almost nothing to do w/ what is being said. why bother?
@KaleeCali Just for that insult, you win. Kudos.
mine is $450 for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath in NC
Thank God I stay down South
This guy along with most are always out of touch with people...$800 is not too low thats still to fucking high..And the lower east side is not a glamerous part of Manhatten, it's about as nice as Harlem to be honest......:)
The dislike bar is too damn high
@LuDimezofKush in new york it's amazing. small apartments go for thousands (the ones not in the ghetto). even in my neighborhood apartments are around 1100 for the cheapest. Really depends on where you live, major cities go for higher
Austin TX near downtown $375 all bills paid YEEEUHHH!!
My rent is $600 :P
Not sure that you got this one right Cenk, if you have an apartment when at the time of the rental due to the economy or other pressures you were asked to buy into a program that created a rent controlled area which after that time is impacted by different pressures which makes it a more desirable area in which to live, how does that have anything to do with the original agreed to contract?? This would appear to be a bit of legal chicanery to try and break a Legally binding Agreement.
@hanksnow82 And yes, Hank Snow 82, I've been to Manhattan and other places around the world. I've never even heard of Slackjaw, Georgia, but in the schools I attended, they taught us the difference between 'than' and 'then.' They also taught us not to falsely assume a person's ability to understand things based on a perceived notion about where the person might be from. John Nash, the mathematical genius, and Homer Hickam, the NASA rocket scientist, were both from rural areas of West Virginia.
three bedroom two bath in texas is 450 a month :P....i guess the bad thing is living in texas but you win some you loose some
What is with those subtitles
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@Capng123 It is pretty low. My parents used to rent out a house to people and that rent was $1000 per month.
@subatomicparticlephy "you don't know english" I'm not going to point out how hilariously ironic that line is.
these subtitles are terrible
perfect irony
@AtanasovPetar landlords are everywhere. they are in charge and often own the rented out flats/apartments.
@BVargas78 True. The beauty of social housing pays for itself now & is pretty much proof of the enormous profits that are being made in the rental market when all the maintenance on the house + the rates can be covered by my $200 alone. There are 2 people living in this house including me so basically, to gov gets a profit from this house & many others. I am on a pension so it is not like I can just go out & get a job but if I did, the rent does go up according to what I would earn pro rata.
@HoraceSteve
what's ND?
THE RAENT IS TOO DAMN....low?
Ana...she looks different here
The V in Ana kasparians shirt is too damn high
800 what, year, month?
I'd like to twisty twist something...
800 wtf that is a shitload
HAHAHA you guys are so ripped off, I pay $200 pm.