How many times have you moved? I used to move every 6 months at one time just to get a "first month free rent" discount every 6 months. I wouldn't even unpack...LOLI honestly have never wound up in the scenario you’re describing, yeah. Like, most people spend over 30% of their income on housing/rent, so clearly most landlords don’t give a shit about that rule! It’s like a NYT article about a graduate with a can do attitude and rich parent who manages to live in their parents’ condo debt free on six figures lecturing the rest of the country on how they’re the one making themselves poor. I genuinely cannot understand the world you live in. It’s completely alien to me.
The people spending that much of their income in rent is because the rent was raised after they moved in, their apartments were bought out by corporations after they moved in, not that they didn't qualify when they moved in. People usually live in places a while so they don't get hit with it until they move. Often they get stuck where they cannot move due to that reason.
You acting like the 30% rule isn't normal is what is alien to me, most everywhere is corporate owned these days and since I have had to switch apartments a few times in the last few years, I have had to deal with this 3 times in that amount of time. My apartments are corporate own and run and that is standard. And NOTHING I have said btw is reminiscent of " rich parent who manages to live in their parents’ condo debt free on six figures lecturing the rest of the country on how they’re the one making themselves poor". That is some twisted BS interpretation there for sure.