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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I’ve helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street

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    • Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It genuinely seems like it could have fantastic advice. I just wish they didn’t make it so incredibly condescending.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It is blunt, for people who can’t understand anything else.

        I used to work for a nonprof helping the homeless, ran shelters, other programs.

        Some people are traumatized, some people are a bit mentally off, some people are more so just dense, stupid, cocky assholes to whom the concepts of rules and consequences just… fundamentally do not seem to register, who also continuously and obviously lie.

        Now this was more shelter oriented, but we helped move people into new housing too.

        If you can’t handle shelter rules, as in, you consistently violate them, we were a lot less eager to help those people into housing, because they can’t follow rules, and part of what we are supposed to be doing on our end is sending over people who can and will.

        Also, trust me, if you’ve ever been homeless, you will almost certainly develop a bit thicker skin than being offended by slightly impolite and blunt phrasing on a piece of paper, you will be dealing with a lot more serious shit than that basicslly all of the time, a lot more, extremely blunt and rude people than that, basically all the time.

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      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I served on the board of a Section 8 housing authority for a number of years.

        You would be amazed at the number of people who don’t understand that leases are legally binding contracts and there are actual, enforceable consequences for violating the conditions of it.

        “You guys can’t evict me.”

        “Uhhh, yeah, we can. It just so happens that hording 30 cats in your house and letting them soak every inch of the place with piss is a violation of the terms of your lease.”

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      • frog@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t rent and it got me curious…

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  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    its probably helpful for the people it describes. not everyone understands how lease agreements work, even in the basic way the flyer talks about.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Or even acting like a human being, by the sounds of things.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a millennial and I hate the verb “adulting” more every time I hear it.

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    • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was funny at first, but I won’t miss it if it disappears like other slang has.

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    • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m Gen Y, and I hate the term Millennial more every time that I hear it.

      Gen X --> Gen Y --> Gen Z --> Gen Alpha

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      • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The only real difference is that millenial has a stigma that Gen Y doesn’t have.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That seems fairly reasonable. No one should have to put up with noisy neighbours stomping around all night or throwing house parties packing like sardines into overcrowded flats like it’s a bus in India or constantly emitted smells of dogshit, weed and asian food or be harassed for no reason or feel unsafe or otherwise disrupted in their own home or the surrounding infrastructure that they need to use as part of daily life like exits/entrances/walkways etc.

    It’s called the social contract.

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      dogshit, weed and asian food

      one of these is not like the other…

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah you’re right one of them is a smell some people can somehow stand because they live in it and it doesn’t make it any more appropriate to emit

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    • Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The advice given isnt the issue. Its the attitude its all spoken in…

      Stuff like “Free (unlike your late fee that you keep racking up)” for example

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I like the tone actually. Hate landlords and yeah it’s a bit nasty when you think of the social dynamics but honestly sometimes you just have to reach people, because the kinds of people who become an issue also don’t tend to read the dry legal document that is their rental agreement, I guarantee you.

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      • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It reads like an attempt at joviality that comes off as condescending. College students see this shit all the time.

        I’m an old fart. I know better than to try to be hip. I’m not, and never have been. I get along just fine.

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      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Who cares. You softer than butter?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What the fuck is your problem with Asian food?

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh? Why the fuck would I care whether my neighbor includes a cousin? If the cousin is paying to stay there then I can see some legal issues but why would this have anything to do with me?

      The rest I agree with. Don’t want people bothering me.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s no problem if the cousin is on the lease. That’s the point.

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  • Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This feels incredibly targeted to me… one of the residents must be a pit bull owner with a deadbeat cousin and some really good Tuesday nights.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ma take a wild guess - is this being posted in a college town? Because a lot of that looks like shit you would’ve needed to tell me when I was 19.

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    • Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not really? The city over is a college town though so maybe its just close enough for osmosis to happen

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      • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, that might be what’s happening. I live in the city next to a university, and there are a lot of students in certain apartment complexes here. Moreover, that was also the case where I lived when I was in college. The adjacent cities had lots of students.

        The owners of this building might also be actively advertising their apartments to students.

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    • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was my first guess, too, but apparently not. Hmm.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gotta love renting. Help a friend get back on their feet for a bit after life throws them through the wringer?

    Too bad, so sad, your turn in the wringer.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wonder if this is being posted around student housing.

      Given the language, adulting 101 talk, and the mention of a “community room,” this feels like it’s aimed at 18 year olds in student housing, or a city that revolves around a university.

      Having people not on lease crash in student housing can lead to a lot of frustration for students using shared spaces.

      I had some roommates have messy friends “crash” in their rooms for extended periods of time, and it ment that I had to effectively deal with a new shitty roommate that I didn’t sign up for. Not an uncommon thing.

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok so what prevents everyone in the apartment doing this with a “cousin”. If you’re stuffing more people into the building then costs go up. Maintenance isn’t free.

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      • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Looks like it might be a building that has students in it. A lot of us probably had that college roommate that decided that their high school friend or the new person they were dating was going to visit and never leave.

        They didn’t need sanctuary, they just had zero boundaries and respect for the other people in the home. And young people aren’t always the best at resolving those situations with candor, so they fester.

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      • midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Compared to rent, maintenance is basically free, typically about 1-2%. If we think that cost would double, for some reason, by adding another person, it still wouldn’t be that much. But it’s ridiculous to think that would even be the case, given that a sizeable portion of maintenance is not related to tenants at all.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or 11 cousins, in a 2 person studio?

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i know this is ugh but irl my neighbors run a small engine repair shop with, no joke, 10 snowblowers in the alley between our houses. they rent. i own. i politely remind them their engines are, in this regard, mere feet away from my living room or bedroom depending on time of day. i dont know what to do other than that. (nothing i can do an im ok with that just ranting) they are otherwise kind, social, fine people. its just randomly “brrrrraaaaap” while im sleeping early due to a cold, or just a cozy saturday. sigh.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …what?

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a class action lawsuit.

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