Cities Keep Building Luxury Apartments Almost No One Can Afford

My building bills itself as Luxurious downtown living. It's 6 floors and often all 3 elevators are broken, often only one works, one elevator has not worked in the 5 months I've lived here, with a sign saying it's temporarily closed. The walls in the hallways look like they haven't been painted in half a decade or more, tons of plaster covering holes, no paint on top. Advertised price of $1250 for a 500sq ft apartment, comes to over 1600 with hidden fees. countertops? linoleum. built in 2006ish. We have cockroaches in the building, thankfully only seen them in the hallway. Oh and we don't have trash shoots, instead we have a service that picks them up only 5 days a week in a 2 hour window. My trash has never been picked up in that 2 hour window, only later. At the same time in the 5 months I've had several emails threatening tenants that if trash is put out early or late they could be fined $50.

Renters rights have been pretty trash nationwide, but y'all have let this shit get completely out of hand. I don't know how you do it. I don't think this is a city I'm willing to settle down in.

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