Former homeless tenants facing rent increase in Bankers Hill housing

Dozens of once-homeless tenants at the Occidental Hotel face eviction if they don't honor the rent increase.

[@heathercarpenter5497]

Rent is out of control everywhere. I live in Washington state and there are studios right now, studio apartments going for over $1500. The people in charge complain about homelessness but yet keep raising the rents we're just going to have more homeless people.

[@CihttiBabbuu-dt9qw]

Keep voting blue 🤡

[@KingAngel4Life]

This is ridiculous that homelessness is on an all time high. Working class facing homelessness

[@jacobnapkins1155]

Fight for control

[@vicdog4440]

Over a thousand for a tiny studio in a building that’s already supposed to be for lower income people like the disabled guy. I can’t believe that landlord has no shame.

[@Ap_twsh]

hes gotta pay bills

[@duckling4393]

Don't blame owners...go after politicians...increasing property taxes, inspection fees, sewer fees, maintenance fees, management fees, etc..etc...etc

[@toasteddingus6925]

​@@Ap_twshhe didn't have to buy the building. The point is, anyone who was looking at buying that building KNEW that many were in SRO units. It's not good enough to turn around and want to pass the buck onto someone else. The housing issue in SD is not just the politicians fault. Many landlords buy "cheap" buildings, raise the rent in an attempt to kick people out, make a few improvements, MOST of which are usually just cosmetic, and then put up those units for exorbitant rates. Little by little the city continues to lose low income housing space, but I see EVERYONE complaining about homelessness. FCKN HELLO! does anyone have a brain over at city hall?

[@ThinhNguyen-wt8kw]

Well, they are in business to make money, not a charity to give people cheap housing. And btw, if these can’t afford the rents, why do they still live San Diego, one of the most expensive places in California???

[@nunyadambusiness3530]

Then the landlord needs to get a real job. @@Ap_twsh

[@kinky_Z]

$1000 for a rooming house room? In the 50s they were $15/mo. In the 60s, $40/mo. and now $1000?? Ridiculous!!

[@Babu-kr3cr]

Those places are barely livable no less.

[@sinebar]

Retired people who worked all their lives shouldn't have to be facing homelessness. There are abandoned military bases all over the US that could be converted to house low income people.

[@bubba6989]

There are, but it takes a lot of time and money when it comes to superfund sites, ordinance renovation... not saying it shouldnt be done, but not as simple as it sounds.

[@kennethsouthard6042]

How far is the closest abandoned military base to San Diego? Assume for the sake of argument that there is one between El centro and Yuma. Do you think these people will be willing to go there?

[@bubba6989]

@@777trader8 what does that even mean?

[@natrixxvision6997]

I agree. Retired people shouldn’t have to face homelessness. So when they invest their pensions in rental properties they deserve to make a return on their investment so they don’t lose it.

[@jerrymylove1754]

When partying your whole life and being bad with money goes bad.

[@AIartBonaza]

Greed rules the world now

[@stephaniecorelli3034]

Nobody is doing shit about it.

[@serenityb5816]

Christ, that’s a lot of money for such a crappy place.

[@MrJuvefrank]

It's no fun losing your home.

[@kelsieauger33]

This is system failure how can you do this to people this is all disgusting and sheer greed what they are doing to people its happening where i live 1 bedrooms are almost 2000 a month where i live and that is outrageous . Its wrong to stress these people out .

[@cynthiabecerra2164]

The only way things will change, is if the owners were suddenly the renters. People on top won't give up their spot

[@cecesmith]

Why blame the owners? Blame the politicians, they are the ones that increases everything, educate yourself and vote wisely

[@tashavirtue952]

I was homeless and barely got the place I have now which I'm also about to be evicted because of rent increases and losing my job and car being smogged and registered.

[@davidwright873]

I remember my days in an SRO...several in fact. They are a life saver but only temporarily.....It's definitely a great stepping stone.

[@surviveunplugged]

Monetary policy (infusions of liquidity into the economy through "stimulus") allowed for capital to be funneled into real estate over the past two years. The property was sold so now the "new" investment has to yield a return, likely on new, larger debt service. It's the same with the cost of education and student loans. The very policies desired by American voters have adverse economic consequences that most don't understand. "Stimulus" + rent moratoriums = Higher rent. That's simple economics. There was no escaping this and it's likely to get worse, so prepare.

[@bonehardaggin]

I don't know about the Occidental Hotel but I do know that the Path building is notorious in the community . Its cause to worry when you hear someone has been hanging out inside... or even out on the sidewalk. It's a well known drug den, where people have been sexually assaulted. Most of the residents still have tents on the streets where they live a homeless life in the daytime to participate in the open drug markets or "homeless encampments".

[@arcticwolf4707]

Can’t afford it? Get a job? Still can’t afford it? Get a second job! Still can’t afford it? MOVE TO A CHEAPER AREA! Cheaper state!

[@imorccUO]

Sh*t in your hat and punch it.

[@Greenskies321]

It costs a ton of money to move dip 💩

[@arcticwolf4707]

@@Greenskies321 move your lazy a** to AZ dip 💩 this place is too expensive for your crackhead a**

[@ceuser3555]

No rent control bill by useless politicians

[@kinky_Z]

In 2018 voters in California rejected a rent control proposition on the ballot. People are so stupid - they always vote against their interests.

[@brotherhood92PA]

Simply greed

[@phallondavenport470]

This is so sad

[@artenman]

1k? I’m over here paying 4k 😭

[@northyland1157]

Rents go up.. its a part of life....

[@imorccUO]

Sh*t in your hat.

[@BusArch42]

Can we talk about what happened because of the eviction moratorium? All the small business owners sold to large corporations. They follow the same play book. Come in and renovate and double the rent. They have strict qualifications to rent.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

No eviction filings even if you beat the eviction. No criminal record. Perfect references. You have to be essentially without any issues, or you are homeless.

[@BusArch42]

@@Babu-kr3cr yup. And a high credit score plus proof of three times income.

[@michaeldavis9774]

Think about it. San Diego is a very diserable city to live in and visit. It is also prime real estate for developers that would like more resort and beachfront properties. But there is only so much resort locations to buy up. If only low income citizens could be pushed away from the arer, it would start clearing up land, by buying lots and land as it comes available. Of course, the big developer's best friend is the corruption of the San Diego City Council. Triditionally, San Diego City has always had developers backs over the citizens. Permits for developers are easy. It is only a matter of which developers way more for Council member's votes.

[@sandyduncan6825]

Landlord know that there is a shortage of housing so they are getting GREEDY AND RAISING THE COST OF THEIR ROOMS... ITS ALL ABOUT GREED!!!

[@rbfarrell1]

This is one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S. It took me years of hard work, proper money management to afford to live in San Diego. There are many other place much cheaper to live move there. Try Montana much cheaper, you won't have the nice weather and nice beaches, but you have not earned it either. The entitlement of people thinking they should be able to live where they want and the government should give them money.

[@BusArch42]

Wake up and smell the cost of living. It’s coastal california! Everyone wants to live there. We make 500k a year and it’s not affordable for us! If you are elderly move to the Midwest. Rent is cheap, taxes are low and food is inexpensive.

[@mcteeny7609]

Luxury apartments, Landlords, regular apartments will always raise rents. And if they cant. They will keep places vacant. Federal government needs to build on federal land or the goverenment just has to take away funding from all these apartment buildings and create their own wooden skyscrapers like the skyscaper built in wiscousin ( can find it on youtube)

[@Ap_twsh]

its sad but don't blame landlords, they have to fix up the place. What the tenants should do is request the city provide them with a voucher that can cover the cost of living even if the rent is increasing and show proof of occupancy then the landlord can use that as a method of receiving a payment You are in a very desirable location. Problem is the city is slow in regard to distributing the payments.

[@Greenskies321]

Piss off. It’s 100% the landlords. I’m a real estate accountant. Stop defending these thieves

[@brandonng6000]

how's about sharing your apartment? rent out a bed and make extra money to pay for that rent increase? If there's a will, there's a way

[@mohammadsabir7600]

Here Canada 3000 too much

[@Babu-kr3cr]

That is a dumpy little room, and these people are begging for their lives to stay there. All these corporations care about is making more money. You used to be able to find one of these SROs just about anywhere to crash while you figured out what to do next. Now it is the only home these people can find, and it is being taken from them. This one is clean, so it isn't the neighbors protesting them out of town. It is just the landlord looking to capitalize on the situation instead of looking out for his neighbors. Maybe he isn't even from the area. Once you lose a place these days, you can't find another unless you are from the upper end of the income spectrum.

[@markelam3242]

If you separate the drug addicts from real homeless . We could then take care of the homeless witch would be a small problem. Probably over 75° or more are drug addicts looking for a free ride

[@hakimbandaru1915]

I would say 95% are the drug addicts or mentally retarded. The rest are normal decent people.

[@toasteddingus6925]

It's more like 50% are on drugs. You really would be surprised to see how many people are homeless or functionally homeless, ESPECIALLY elderly people. They are just not usually walking around downtown screaming at the sky so people don't think about them as much as the feces covered people on meth

[@BusArch42]

Yup

[@deeferguson9272]

Drug dealers never get arrested. Somebody is getting kickbacks. That bag in The White House came from somewhere. Joey needs his marching dust

[@hdwgh2022]

🥺🤎so sad

[@paddy9449]

Welcome 2 the club!!!!!

[@ka6459]

A lot of this is greed. After the pandemic, landlords decided that they were tired of the stress and sold to corporations that only have max profit in mind. While a few people were truly unable to pay rent during COVID-19, most renters who stopped paying rent did so out of greed. Well, the pandemic is over and you reap what you sow.

[@adamhall5024]

Possibility that the slumlord’s property taxes went up? Ok people it’s time to move out of that state

[@Maltologist]

Bankers hill is a prime location, not cheap. And the new owners have high intrset loans and bills to pay. They are not in charity business!

[@BusArch42]

We left california just like many others because it costs too much to live there. Simple solution - move.

[@toddmccbride4106]

Move to Tijuana. 1 be 1 bath $300 a month. Problem solved

[@Joshua40]

rent needs to be capped.. cost of living should not be 3x minimum wage income.

[@bonehardaggin]

Just make minimum wage one million dollars an hour than everyone would be rich. Right? Your so smart.

[@Joshua40]

@@bonehardaggin I didnt say raise minimum. I said cap rent. can you read?

[@six6goddess214]

@@Joshua40 How about you build these apartments and charge cheap rents, lets see if you can do it.

[@Joshua40]

@@six6goddess214 You're too stupid to argue with.

[@BusArch42]

That’s only possible if the government owns the property. What happens if it’s no longer profitable to own rental property? Answer - there won’t be any

[@vespaman101]

Damn I'm literally here because I was thinking about getting an AIRBNB here. No wonder they can't afford it. People are making what they pay in a month by having me rent for a week. Jeez. I'll skip it.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

They turned this housing into an AIR B&B? Those should be made illegal. They are displacing too many people.

[@vespaman101]

@Babu-kr3cr I wouldn't go as far as to make AirBNB illegal as you can't just tell people they can't rent out thier property. But I think they should limit corporations and citizens on how many they can have. Or put regional limits on how many an area can have. The problem isn't one person with 2 or even 5 houses. Those are a rare number of people. The issue is a company that owns 100 homes in your town and 200 in another town or companies that aim to own 10% of a community.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

@@vespaman101 They should be illegal. You were never allowed to do that before. It is like running a hotel without the licensing and inspections. Same thing with Uber. You are getting in a stranger's car with no license, background check or culpability. It is destroying the rental market. People are displaced for the sole reason the landlord can make more money running this Air B&B nonsense. Cabbies are being put out of business. I really think it is not fair to the lower classes to have these unfair unregulated entities as competition. The Air B&B doesn't need a CO and inspection. They just go right ahead and start charging a lot of money. If people are winding up homeless, something has to be done. I don't think it should be legal to evict someone in order to convert to an Air B&B at the very least, but then greedy landlords would run the tenants out some other way.

[@ginny709]

want to help the homeless situation... start with the greedy landlords....

[@beaubiden3244]

They’re literally getting the bum rush.

[@johnjaco5544]

Lots of space in slab city.

[@elizabethtejada2251]

More people citizens, immigrants is more demands in housing and left affordable housing for living ahh and the border is open

[@dulcineadurance1391]

greed and immorality of realtors/new landlords is the name of the game .... how they live with themselves is puzzling but "the chickens will come home to roost"..... leave California if u can

[@rjmanzano0877]

GREED

[@iwilson6651]

'hmmmm, I want my own place too. So I left San Diego.

[@Greenskies321]

Not how you bring consequences to the thieves. Such cowardice

[@992001jeffr]

Inflation affects EVERYONE. You just voted for more inflation, stop complaining when you get what you vote for. You also voted for more crime.

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

You have no clue.

[@JW-uy2on]

Inflation is a global issue. Do you understand that a world exists outside of the United States?

[@KingAngel4Life]

Change your vote..

[@MrQwiksix21]

Ya gots to pick up and go to another city that is affordable. Everyone wants to live in San Diego, but not everyone can AFFORD IT...

[@L.Spencer]

Yet how many people have multiple houses all over, a house here, a condo there, a cabin there. Crazy world.

[@wayneroberts6642]

The whole country is unaffordable..

[@marietta1335]

@@L.Spencer Your point?

[@anchorsaweigh9893]

LMAO! There is no housing! Too many government fees, rules, regulations and incompetence. Also move somewhere you can afford to live 🌚

[@Larry93215]

Section 8 gives a raise every year

[@crimsonfirelily]

Yet it takes over 10 years to get close to getting accepted on Section 8! If your single or have no kids it takes even longer! What does a person do then? Everyone wonders why we have a homeless problem here!✌

[@jaad9848]

no relationship wIth homelessness. no relationship at all . we always know the homeless are druggies *sarcasm

[@lasaventurasdemrbravo3706]

Go Tijuana 😂cheap

[@jacobnapkins1155]

Greedy landlords

[@marietta1335]

Jacob Napkins greedy tenant.

[@jacobnapkins1155]

@@777trader8 you're post is uneducated the cpi report shows that the cost of housing has far outpaced all other expenses even factoring in all of those things you included

[@myrrhavm]

Can’t afford to live in the area you move out. Millions of WORKING people have and do it daily. WORKING people some have to drive and hour plus to get to work from where they live because that’s where they can afford to live. That’s life. Millions of people like myself don’t live where we want to live because we can’t afford to do so. Oh well. I use to live in Malibu in the late 70s early 80s. Guess what? Haven’t since then. Who do I blame for that? Who owes me a place on the beach? A place steps from the sand at 70s prices? No one. Move people. Go where life is cheap. I watch a video about Nebraska that has houses for under $150,000 and companies there can’t find workers to earn $40,000 a year. How is it people think they are owed anything in life? Democrats have created this illogical thinking just to buy votes with empty promises.

[@haveaniceday23]

Dino is so confused. Doesn't understand much about life. Wet behind the ears. I pray Dino never has to hit rock bottom

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

It’s not as cheap as you think in Nebraska and there is no shame in letting corrupt businesses get their long overdue shutdown and I say this as someone from the conservative viewpoint. The only due of mankind is Fear God and obey His commandments aka the Bible and to love God and love thy neighbor as thyself.

[@myrrhavm]

@@haveaniceday23 Confused? Understand life completely and know how to convey a message. Your comment makes zero sense and says nothing in much response to what I said. Just shows you lack intelligence, comprehensive thinking and reasoning.

[@myrrhavm]

@@EmilyGloeggler7984More wisdom and logic from those that think they are wise. So you think laziness and people not wanting to work is sticking it to the business man and corporations? That’s stupid. That’s why people are broke and homeless. Of course some places in all states are not as cheap as others places with in the same state. That’s logic. Why people move to where they can afford to live and commute to work. Millions do it daily as I already said. Feel sorry for you, Kulanda and those that think like you that are incapable of processing logic. You quote the Bible with nothing that has to do with the topic of this video or my comment. What does pertain to this video is Second Thessalonians 3: 9-12 9 Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate. 10 For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.” 11 Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.…12 We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

[@marietta1335]

@@haveaniceday23 Dino's post is reasonable. You don't challenge a premise by shooting the person who presents it. It's called ad hominem, and it's a faulty, malicious way to argue.

[@wayneroberts6642]

Sell Dope....

[@MrWargw]

People don’t seem to understand what it takes to maintain these buildings it simple they will charge what they feel they can afford to keep up with maintenance and make a profit if you can’t pay it get out where you go is not their concern, they will replace you within a week

[@Al_D]

Entitled much?

[@imorccUO]

Sh*t in your hat.

[@Babu-kr3cr]

You probably are.

[@ultimatedouchebag6760]

keep voting Blue

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

Like red gives two shits about socisl justice.

[@kennethsouthard6042]

@@marryellenmonahan5585 Just in case you aren't aware, this is a pretty blue state and has been for about 20 years. There is also a huge budget surplus. Given that why hasn't the state stepped up and housed these people?

[@JW-uy2on]

@@kennethsouthard6042 As if there isn't homelessness and poverty in red states. It's not a partisan issue.

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

@@kennethsouthard6042 I was referring to the above comment that said to keep voting blue as to why we have the homeless problem. Happy thanksgiving.....grateful to have a roof over head. We have to do better and stop the glorification of wealth and creating more billionaires and giving bullshit taxcuts to the rich and corporations. Any of them could do something....

[@imorccUO]

Sh*t in your hat.

[@jaad9848]

surf cowboy llc. cool guy landlord in the eyes of the person who started the company