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NNPA NEWSWIRE — While outside of Manhattan, in the other four boroughs, rents can be found for much less, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan stands at about $4,000 per month. Scantlebury said landlords require earnings of 40-times the rent for application approvals. The post ‘The Rent is Just Too Damn High!’ first appeared on BlackPressUSA.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia
Monica Scantlebury lived in D.C. for a decade before picking up stakes and moving to the Big Apple, where she has resided for about 11 years.
So, as Scantlebury noted, she’s no stranger to high rents.
A high school teacher for 15 years, Scantlebury has decided to leave the teaching profession and New York at the end of the month.
“It’s not sustainable,” she said of ever-escalating rents.
Outside of Manhattan, in New York City’s four other boroughs, rents are lower. However, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan stands at about $4,000 per month. Scantlebury said landlords require earnings of 40-times the rent for application approvals.
“The average income needed is $160,000,” Scantlebury asserted. “If a teacher is a single person, that’s not even feasible, even at charter schools which generally pay 10 percent more.
“I have 15 years of experience, two master’s degrees, and I top out at $106,000 at a charter school. However, even with my husband’s salary, we are not at $160,000 nor close to it given he is in the dance performance industry.”
The average cost of a one-bedroom in August stands at $1,769 nationally, a 39% increase over 2021, Rent.com reported.
Two-bedroom rentals averaged $2,105 nationally this month, a 38% increase over 2021.
“If you’re interested in a single bed and a single bath, the average of such apartments is mostly around $2,000 to $2,100 here in Fairfax, Virginia,” said Dustin Fox, owner and realtor of Fox Teams Real Estate Brokers in Virginia.
“For each additional room, the rent increases by $500 on average,” Fox stated. “This information varies because of the difference in neighborhoods and amenities. The figures drop and move up but don’t really cross much of the budget.”
Fox said rental patterns revealed that current prices are comparatively lower but soared from $3,000 to $3,5000 in Fairfax last year.
“With the prevailing fluctuations in interest rates and home prices, it’s getting miserable for new home buyers to settle in their own places,” Fox continued.
“The only recommendation that can be put forward for these people is that they should hold back their expenses within strict limits and keep saving until the market cools down.”
Nate Johnson, a real estate investment expert and product manager at the leading property search site NeighborWho, offered recommendations for first-time homebuyers and current homeowners.
“My recommendation for first-time buyers is to wait and keep saving aggressively,” Johnson wrote in an email.
“For some individuals, it might make sense to move in with friends and family to save money over the next year. If their job allows for remote work, it could also make sense to move from a high-cost area to a lower-cost area that might be further away from the workplace.”
Johnson said he’s witnessed some negotiate for slightly lower rents with their landlord by locking into longer contract terms or putting more money down as a deposit.
“Another possible strategy for some renters is to rent out extra rooms on short-term rental sites like Airbnb or VRBO to help cover rent,” he said.
He added that it’s unlikely that a current homeowner would lock in a mortgage as low as what they already have.
“My recommendation for current homeowners is to stay where they are if possible,” Johnson insisted.
Joshua Haley, the founder of Moving Astute, said there are many ways to make housing more affordable.
“One is to increase the availability of units at lower rates,” Haley stated.
“Another is to provide incentives for developers to build more affordable housing. A third solution is to make it easier for people to access credit to purchase a home. Finally, increasing the supply of affordable housing will help bring down the rent cost in major cities.”
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mrs. Edwards, who is a member of the Friends of the African American Library at Gregory School in Fourth Ward, will lead a future celebration to honor Mrs. Clarice Freeman—the musician, educator, and community leader. Mrs. Clarice Freeman has a large collection of historical documents that need to be preserved and archived in the Houston library. The post The Elders Institute of Wisdom Honors Clarice Freeman as she Celebrates 102 Years first appeared on BlackPressUSA.
By Jacqueline Brannon-Giles | Houston Forward Times
How many people do you know who are 102 years old?
At S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, we know one.
Her name is Clarice Freeman, and she had a blessed marriage. Dr. Thomas Freeman, a great man, had a great wife, Clarice Freeman.
Dr. Thomas Freeman and Mrs. Clarice Freeman
Clarice Freeman is honored each time she attends the Elders Institute of Wisdom (EIW) at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center. Her contributions to the conversation in the EIW discussion group are amazing, clear, and loaded with wisdom.
Each week, an elder is featured in a one-page handout, and Mrs. Lana Edwards, one of the editors, is highlighting Clarice Freeman on Thursday, August 11, 2022.
Mrs. Edwards, who is a member of the Friends of the African American Library at Gregory School in Fourth Ward, will lead a future celebration to honor Mrs. Clarice Freeman—the musician, educator, and community leader. Mrs. Clarice Freeman has a large collection of historical documents that need to be preserved and archived in the Houston library.
We salute Mrs. Clarice Freeman, and we love her—a woman who knows how to demonstrate love in the Houston community. She has impacted the world in a positive way!
We appreciate Brother DeLoyd Parker for providing the S.H.A.P.E. venue to celebrate outstanding elders in Houston’s community.
The post The Elders Institute of Wisdom Honors Clarice Freeman as she Celebrates 102 Years appeared first on Houston Forward Times.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — It may be hard for many people to believe just how extreme Trump’s movement and his political supporters have become, and just how much of a threat to democracy they pose as we approach this year’s congressional elections. The January 6 committee has done democracy a big favor by dragging important truths into the light of day. We can’t turn away from them. To preserve our country and our freedoms, we must recognize that they are threatened. And we must act to protect them. The post COMMENTARY: The Power of the Truth first appeared on BlackPressUSA.
By Ben Jealous, President of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania
The truth has power. That is why an army of politicians, lawyers, political schemers, media personalities, and admirers of former President Donald Trump have tried so hard to keep Americans from learning the truth about his effort to overturn the 2022 election.
Fortunately, he failed to overturn the election. And he and the corrupt members of his inner circle have failed to keep the truth hidden.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on our country—and the criminal conspiracy that led up to it—is an important exercise in truth telling.
We have learned a lot thanks to the work of committee members and staff, principled members of Trump’s own administration, and journalists whose work has shed light on things Trump and his cronies desperately tried to keep hidden.
Donald Trump wanted to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. He wanted it so badly that he tried to bully his loyal vice president into making a power-abusing end run around the Constitution. He wanted it so badly that he worked his supporters into a rage with endless lies about the election being stolen.
He called these enraged supporters to Washington, D.C., to interfere with a key step in the peaceful transfer of power. He sent them to the Capitol knowing that many were armed. And for hours, while members of the Capitol Police were being brutalized, and members of Congress and Vice President Pence’s security detail were calling loved ones, not sure they would live through the attack, Trump did nothing.
Well, to be more accurate, he did nothing to stop the rampage. He did plenty of harmful things.
He did watch the violence on television. He did pour gasoline on the fire by denouncing Pence while the attack was under way. He did take calls from fearful members of Congress only to dismiss their pleas for help. He did reject direct appeals from his own daughter to call off the attack. He did tell his chief of staff that he didn’t think the mob chanting “hang Mike Pence” was doing anything wrong. He thought Pence deserved it for choosing the Constitution over Trump’s desire to keep his grip on power.
Only when it was becoming clear that the attack would fail to stop Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory did Trump grudgingly tell his troops to withdraw.
But even that was a tactical retreat. His attack on our democracy hasn’t stopped. Or even slowed down.
Trump continues to lie about the election being stolen from him. His enablers in right-wing media and far-right social media networks spread the lie even further. MAGA activists harass election officials. State legislators use that lie to justify laws that make it harder for people Trump sees as his enemies to vote.
Even worse, they are trying to get more Trump loyalists and Big Lie believers into positions where they will have the power to succeed at what Trump and his team tried to do this time around: overturn the election results in key states. Trumpists and election deniers are running for office as local election officials, state legislators, and secretaries of state, where they will have power to interfere with how elections are run and votes are counted.
And potentially even worse than that, they are also enlisting the far-right Supreme Court majority that Trump cemented with three justices who were preapproved by the far right-wing legal movement. They have agreed to consider a fringe legal theory pushed by the hard right.
If the court’s new activist far-right majority embraces this legal theory, it would let state legislators violate state constitutions and ignore and override the will of the voters. And it would be impossible for courts to step in as a check on anti-democratic abuses of power. This is a battle plan for authoritarian rule.
It may be hard for many people to believe just how extreme Trump’s movement and his political supporters have become, and just how much of a threat to democracy they pose as we approach this year’s congressional elections. The January 6 committee has done democracy a big favor by dragging important truths into the light of day. We can’t turn away from them. To preserve our country and our freedoms, we must recognize that they are threatened. And we must act to protect them.
Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. A New York Times best-selling author, his next book “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free” will be published by Harper Collins in December 2022.
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