• BCBoy911@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      I live in a wildly overpriced studio apartment. I would jump at the chance to move into a concrete block apartment with no AC and limited hot water if it took $500 off my monthly rent.

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        3 days ago

        How much do you currently pay and how much do you think these commie block apartments would cost? Because where I’m from, a 1br commie block apartment is as much as if not more than a modern studio apartment.

        The lack of AC and poor ventilation really show in the summer too.

        Apartment blocks are nice, but I don’t want to live in the commie ones, they suck in many ways.

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        4 days ago

        if it took $500 off my monthly rent.

        You think it would take $500 off your rent? Lol, they’re not going to make things cheaper, just life more miserable.

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          3 days ago

          Wouldnt that just be supply and demand? Why would less comfortable housing not be less expensive?

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              1 day ago

              Aren’t the projects subsidised housing? I would assume that most people living there would want out if they had a chance