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  1. theguardian.com/fashion/articl

    The kit detailed here totals over £1200 before you've bought travel tickets or booked accommodation, let alone budgeted for food and drink.

    How many people on an average salary* can afford that kind of expense?

    #FoodBanks #ChildPovertyAction #RentHikes #FuelPrices

    * A bit over £30k pa before tax, last time I looked

  2. Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds

    npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/

    A new Harvard analysis finds people across income levels got squeezed by rent hikes during the pandemic. The market has lost millions of low-rent places, and new construction is mostly high-end.

    #Landlord #Greed #GovernmentCollusion #HomelessCrisis #USA #Investment #Deregulation #Collapse #Harvard #Analysis #RentHikes #PriceGouging #ClassWar #GeneralStrike