Across the US, many renters are calling for national action to stem add-on charges that spike their housing costs and increase their risk of eviction. Farah Momin, a renter in Seattle – who said she has “experienced firsthand the confusion, financial strain and sense of powerlessness that rental junk fees create” – offered her remarks as one of hundreds of tenants, activists and industry officials who have weighed in on the FTC’s new rulemaking process for developing regulations on rental housing fees. Of 471 comments available for public download, nearly 400 explicitly supported regulation or listed problems with junk fees, according to a Guardian analysis. Read what we found here: https://lnkd.in/gzR7Vd5N
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Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar have complained they’re deluged by "unfair" and "inflated" fees. The company denies these claims. “A fee for this, a fee for that was just crazy to me,” Nichole Collins, a former tenant at a Greystar-managed building in Colorado, said. “I had never experienced that before.” Read the full Guardian investigation here: https://lnkd.in/g5RGCVnH
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A tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened 2% lower on Tuesday. The Dow and S&P 500 were also down at opening. The heavy reliance on a single industry and a few key companies has some investors wondering if it’s a matter of when, not if, there will be a burst. Those concerns have been heightened by signals from the Federal Reserve last week that it may increase interest rates, and therefore the cost of borrowing, in order to tackle rising inflation.
