How many times does it need to be said that building housing reduces the rate at which prices increase. It does not guarantee lower prices. Without new housing rent would just shoot up even faster.

A great analogy I heard: Saying building more housing doesn't help is like free-falling from an airplane and complaining the parachute hasn't completely stopped you mid-air.

Is there a list anywhere or map of 911 emergency dispatch centers in New Jersey?

Darke Pines (2nd btwn Newark and Coles) makes a great one. It's not the cheapest thing, but it's worth every penny. Also they only make sandwiches Wed-Sat until 3pm. Their roast beef sandwich is also killer.

Move to theBlvd collection, u can negotiate rent increase, I used to increase it like 50-70$ every year with 1.5-2 year leases

> but it's indicative of a much larger problem

But... It is not. You simply feel that way because you are struggling to keep up, but that's the way an unregulated market is supposed to work. You may not be able to afford it, but others will. Since we are not building enough units to absorb the population growth, we will continue to see increases in housing costs. Until population growth slows down, or some other shock to the system comes (like with the pandemic) we will continue to see higher rents.

What an odd take... the *correct* take is that we are NOT building enough. For all that "nonstop new building" people love to bemoan and criticize, we are getting MORE people than actual housing units, which is why prices DON'T come down or remain stable. Just to illustrate the issue, consider this: in 2000, it was estimated that JC's population was 240K. By 2010, it was estimated to be 247K (an increase of ~3% over 10 years) and then by 2020 it was estimated to be 292K (a increase of over 18% over 10 years, or 6x the growth of the previous decade). In the same period, the number of housing units did not grow nearly enough, so our vacancy rate of available housing units actually went down, demonstrating that we are not keeping up and instead are facing a market that is further constrained.

"Forsooth, thee gentrifier is gentrify'd."
William Shakespeare, probably.

I just received a 15% increase in Hilltop. It was 6% last year. I keep sucking it up because I don't want to move, but eventually it just won't be worth it anymore.

That’s slightly below inflation actually.

Right now inflation nationwide is about 8%. But for service/labor it’s substantially more, especially in NJ where minimum wage is going up on a predefined schedule.

Then you’ve got taxes.

The costs to operate a building went up above 10% due to labor alone.

10% means your landlord is taking a smaller percentage profit. There’s no other way to look at it.

I have had reasonable increases with KRE. 4% increase two years in a row

Hudson hall is pretty good

I did. I saw a few posts, but it's indicative of a much larger problem

It feels like they want nothing but luxury renters from NYC

Search the sub, this is asked 5x a week for the last year

Jersey city does indeed seem to be a counterpoint that nonstop new building does not lower rental prices in a meaningful way.

Yeah we’re starting to feel the same way. We don’t want to leave, but its getting harder to keep up

10% was roughly where we were able to negotiate down to after several years of being “invited” to sign a new lease every year or two in a high rise. Eventually became aware that the high rises were not a home and were merely a number of a form and left. It’s not sustainable long term and probably wasn’t designed that way. Unfortunately. Good luck.

Oof. I’ll be watching this one. Tough in Jc

We usually leave a note telling them it’s a driveway; if it’s urgent call police or use the WOTS app.

> I don't see how this is sustainable long term.

It isn't. General strike/rent strike when?

Explain like I’m not a pot smoker: what becomes of all the people that were running the pot economy before there was legalization?

I disagree with almost everything you've said here, most especially using private security for small/private institutions as a comparison point for a 911 dispatch system which manages all public services for an entire city. This is, to me, apples and oranges.

I’m gonna delete it, this was soo unproductive..

The new payroll system is a privatized company, that failed 4 pay periods since Jan. 6th to pay employees correctly. Cops, firefighters, dispatchers, etc.

Mods should be bouncing posts like this.

Not JC related and all ticket scalpers should be encouraged to get lost in the strongest possible terms.