{"id":1209,"date":"2015-02-16T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:17:26","slug":"published-fall-2014-rent-is-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Published Fall 2014 &#8220;Rent Is Theft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rent Woes Issues<\/h3>\n<p>By: C. Harrison\/Feb 17, 2015\/ 1:35 AM<\/p>\n<p>It never faze me to take the J-train to Brooklyn, and this particular afternoon was no different. I got off the train and was on my way to the A-train, when I ran into a couple of guys handing out a pamphlets-a book entitled &#8220;Rent Is Theft.&#8221;\u00a0 Being a Journalist I am always on the lookout for a good story or lead, so naturally, I was curious. Walking seriously fast I quickly walk up to them and almost grab one pamphlet, of which I quickly shove it into my bag. And that was that until I picked it up and curiosity got the better of me, I kept reading and reading.<\/p>\n<p>It was not to say, that what the author is saying was my first time hearing this kind of\u00a0languages regarding <strong>Ren<\/strong>t; because years ago we reported on these subject matters and on such landlords but, it was a piece of Brooklyn that was described <strong>Bushwick, <\/strong>in the pamphlet that fascinated me and with that lingo one could really gravitate to the author&#8217;s mind frame,\u00a0thus get taken in. I am going to give you synopsis of what the authors and publishers are talking about and you decide if you want to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real estate of Brooklyn is set up to be a wealth extraction machine via rent. (well known verse) In other words, we&#8217;re all extorted by landowners for the right to live in our neighborhoods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The average mortgage would run them (Brooklynites) between $3, 500- $4, 500\/mo. Considering the generally accepted wisdom is to apply a third of your income to housing a luxury that most Brooklynites\u00a0 are ill-compensated to afford, that means a salary of $126,000\/yr after taxes at minimum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So-called affordable housing, is usually a ploy to use city subsidies to flip a dilapidated property into a massive financial profit for developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The modern state is a compulsory association which organizes domination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;German sociologist, Max Weber, who described the State as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate\u00a0use of physical force within a given territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The crisis of democracy: On the Government of Democracies.&#8221; In this report the group concludes that unrest in the United States and Western Europe in the 1960&#8217;s did not stem from racism and inequality but rather an &#8220;excess of democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You read it and draw your own conclusion. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/published-fall-2014-rent-is-theft\/scan0003_crop-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1211 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scan0003_crop-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"scan0003_crop\" width=\"244\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scan0003_crop-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scan0003_crop-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scan0003_crop.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rent Woes Issues By: C. Harrison\/Feb 17, 2015\/ 1:35 AM It never faze me to take the J-train to Brooklyn, and this particular afternoon was no different. I got off the train and was on my way to the A-train, when I ran into a couple of guys handing out a pamphlets-a book entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=1209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published Fall 2014 &#8220;Rent Is Theft&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}