#cheap housing

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Residents of Harlem protesting the filthy conditions in their buildings, July-August 1949.

Photo: John Vachon for Look magazine via MCNY

[troonwolf]

also hate to break this to the Americans but it’s actually really pathetic and dumb when y’all call other countries “colonisers” when those countries haven’t colonised anything in 100+ yrs but the country actively colonising other nations right now is you guys. you just look stupid :|

[layzeal]

ok I'm curious so put in the tags what country you are from and whether or not you own/use a rice cooker

[zephyrchama]

Water Wrinkles

Seven demon brothers sat solemnly in a circle around you. You did your best to ignore them. It wasn't often that you got to spend time at the human world villa, and you were intent on soaking up as much sun as you could before returning to the Devildom.

You reclined your beach chair back, crossing your arms under your still-wet hair. It was a gorgeous day. Perfect for being at the pool.

Leviathan let out a muffled sob. As the demon with the highest affinity for water, he blamed himself.

"Let us take you to a hospital," Satan insisted for the tenth time.

"They're going to laugh us out of the ER," you nonchalantly repeated.

Satan lowered his eyes and muttered, "I couldn't find any traces of a curse in the water... So how...?"

Asmodeus had his head in his hands, unresponsive. Sometimes his fingers curled around the ends of his hair. You briefly glanced over to make sure he didn't pull his hair out - that would be grounds for a real emergency.

"I can't bear to watch. Lucifer, do somethin'," Mammon whined. He was fidgeting all over the place and winced whenever he looked at your feet.

The oldest glared at you. You knew it was out of concern, but his fears were unfounded. Even Lucifer refused to listen to reason when he thought you were in danger.

"Actually, yeah. Lucifer, can you pass me a towel?" you asked. It was embarrassing having seven shirtless demons intensely staring at you. If they wouldn't let you go back in the water, maybe covering up would make you feel less self-conscious.

Lucifer didn't move. It was Beelzebub who plucked a spare towel off his younger twin and handed it to you with a shaking arm. He looked like a wet puppy, having been the one who first discovered your "condition" and swept you out of the pool.

Belphegor hadn't gone in the water that day. He only hogged the plush towels because of how comfortable they were and, following Beelzebub's lead, dumped them all onto your chair. Now he sat, wide awake. He was anxiously squeezing a loose chunk of concrete but at some point, without realizing, it got crushed to powder in his hand.

You had more than enough towels now.

"In half an hour you're going to forget this all even happened," you said to reassure the worry warts.

"In half an hour, you might be gone!" Mammon snapped back.

"You're going to be a wrinkled mess of skin and bones," Asmodeus weeped quietly.

Leviathan pressed his hands over his ears. Though, with nothing to cover his eyes he was forced to look at your wrinkled hands again. Based on the noises he was making, you'd think someone was torturing him.

"As I've said!" you reiterated. "All humans get wrinkly in water. Look, now that I'm drying off it's going back to normal."

Beelzebub grabbed your ankle, raising it for the brothers to observe at eye level. "I don't see a difference."

You didn't expect the sudden manhandling and slunk several inches down the lounge chair while the demons stared at your foot. Kicking and twisting your leg was futile. You modestly crossed your free leg.

"I think it's getting worse," Satan said.

"We need to take action," Lucifer decided.

Asmodeus was actively quivering now. Belphegor and Leviathan had crept behind you and started picking at your wrinkly fingers. You tried to swat them away to no avail.

"Give me 25 minutes! Literally! Probably even less, this will go away on its own! I just need to dry off."

"We need a solution now," Mammon asserted. The cogs in his brain were turning. "We need fire."

You tried to sit up, to jump up and stop Mammon before he burned the whole villa down in an attempt to dry you off, but Beelzebub had not let go and you stumbled. You grazed your knee on the concrete and winced.

A second round of panic overcame the demon brothers. Beelzebub let go, Lucifer picked you up, and Belphegor wrapped your knee with every available towel he could lay his hands on. Asmodeus and Leviathan were crying on each other's shoulders. Mammon came running back, oblivious to the second disaster that just occurred, with a flaming stick in his hand that Satan tried to keep at bay. If you got burnt on top of everything else, they'd probably go insane and destroy the human world.

In the midst of the chaos you caught a glimpse of your hand. It was practically dry. You couldn't even see the wrinkles anymore. You angrily wiggled in Lucifer's grasp as various hands fussed over you.

"Stay!!" you shouted over the clamor.

The brothers went tumbling to the ground, save for Lucifer who fought to stay rooted in place. You could finally hear yourself think again. There was primarily one thought on your mind.

"I just want to go swimming."

[tiffanyachings]

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[boreddaytrader]

This is an amazing new idea coming to consumers. My wife and I recently purchased a house with an acre lot and I'm already envisioning something like this for a guest suite or outdoor office space. Hopefully competition arrives in this sector. It seems that home or land ownership may now be within reach for those who previously believed it was impossible.

[wfhandwatchingtv]

I’m fuming. From the outside looking in, it looks like Rhaenys was jumped! But she ACTUALLY gave them boys a run for their money!

Rhaenys actually did very well on dragonback. She was the best rider and had manoeuvred better than Vhagar AND Sunfyre.

When they tell the story, Rhaenyra and everyone on team black need to know that

A. Rhaenys was jumped

B. Rhaenys bested Aegon BEFORE Vhagar came

C. Meleys fell down and got back up the most!!

D. Neither Vhagar nor Sunfyre can destroy Meleys ALONE

[heph]

may I request some of hilson's s2 domestic era??? (YOUR ART SKILLS ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPRESSIVE)

Wilson already knew

[tennessoui]

prompt list but it’s just sentences I’ve gotten wrong in duolingo

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

mike flanagan really saw american horror story and thought to himself “meh.. i can do better”

and then he fucking DID

[eliounora]

saw a video claiming that having two cars makes one upper middle class and a bundle of thoughts occurred to me that I'm struggling to word elegantly but it's something about how people can't tell between middle class and the upper middle class and the rich, and therefore don't realise just how rich actual filthy rich people are and how poor actual poor people are. also something about poverty being deemed a virtue, which makes it harder for people to recognise and especially admit their own privilege and luck, resulting in well-off people insisting they are poor and middle class people getting called rich for arbitrary things.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Thanks to Vasillian for sending this in- you can own a mansion for less than $300K! Look, garages for 6 cars! The real estate description says it has 0bds & 0ba, but it does have them. It also says that it needs a tremendous amount of repairs, but it looks livable. 1935 build, located in Hays, KS, and has 2 acres of land. Asking $295K (But, the seller is motivated- it's been on the market for 294 days, Zillow says it's worth $274,500, so you negotiate it down.) Let's take a peek inside.

The grand hall entrance. I don't see any work needed here, except to strip this wallpaper. Looks like the piano conveys. Beautiful newel post on the original stairs.

So, this is the grand sitting room. The fireplace is non-working, but it's big. What made them select such a small print for such large rooms? And, it looks newly put up. Well, I'd have to live with it for awhile.

An arched doorway to the dining room.

Nice large room with wainscoting. The floors are all new.

Okay, the kitchen is shit. The cabinets are dated, no imagination, cheap, and they took the damned microwave. But, you use it temporarily.

Not sure what this room is, but it could be the primary bedroom and it's huge.

Because thru that doorway is a walk-in closet.

They're not built-ins, so it's a cheesy walk-in closet, but at least they left them.

I'm confused, now. Same wallpaper and carpet, what could it be? There's a fireplace and piano. Family room? They left 2 pianos.

This is definitely a bedroom, but it has open stairs that come up here. There's a walk-in closet and it looks like they left a bureau.

Is that a roll-top desk? Nice. You know how I love when stuff conveys.

So, I guess the bed would go in here?

Very large en-suite with matching rose sinks and tub.

This hall leads to another part of the house, but I'm not sure where.

It looks like the attic.

Seems odd to have a wood stove up here. There's also a fridge, which they left behind, and what looks like a kitchenette.

It's a weird space, but I like it.

Here are stairs to a lower level.

What is this place? Look at the mirrored ceiling and there's bridge w/openings to look down to a lower room. I'm really diggin' this house.

Are you kidding me? Look what's below- an indoor pool. There's a soaring 3 story fireplace and everything. Party time! Looks like they're in the middle of repairing it.

Oh, this is cool.

For less than $300K? Come on. I'll take it.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2390-E-27th-St-Hays-KS-67601/91133722_zpid/?

[nelkcats]

Danny and Vlad didn't get along so badly anymore, seriously, well, at least they're not supposed to, that doesn't stop him from persecuting Danny from time to time with proposals about being his mentor and he would claim child support in return.

For Danielle more than anything, he loved his "cousin" but he couldn't keep up with her travel purchases, nor provide her with basic necessities and Vlad was a millionaire, he should be able to do that at least.

They were arguing, as was normal, they just didn't realize they had an audience, and that their discussions could be misinterpreted, very badly, even more so because they were in human form.

Jason was considering taking one of the guns off of him while an adult he was sure he had seen at one of Bruce's galas yelled at his neighbor to go with him, his neighbor who looked very tired and on despair, but was a good guy and offered him Cocoa from time to time, the neighbor who never asked questions about his nocturnal habits but still offered help.

His neighbor, Danny, who was his friend outside the bats eye, with whom he laughed, had deep conversations and made bad jokes about death, who had started reading Pride and Prejudice for him despite hating literature for a bad experience. The one who had cried over him for not being born in the right body while he asked him to take off his folder and breathe, the one who had stroked his back during his fever.

He was deciding what to do when Danny yelled "Well maybe I'd consider going with you if you hadn't thrown Danielle away as a mistake 6 years ago and wouldn't even deign to pay for anything to do with her, YOU'RE A MILLIONAIRE VLAD, I CAN'T EVEN PAY THIS APARTMENT, JUST GIVE UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE"

¿Six years ago? Jason did the math in his mind, Danny was still a teenager back then, no more than 14 years old, ¿was this a bribery situation? ¿Threat? "Danielle" sounded like an out-of-wedlock daughter too. Had this "Vlad" caused a pregnancy on a 14-year-old? probably abandoned him too, this was a realistic situation but it really grossed him out. ¿Wasn't "Vlad" the name of his Godfather too? Damn it, this was making him sick.

Then Jason decided that yes, Vlad definitely deserved a bullet in the face, and maybe he should talk to his neighbor about ask for help when threatened, this was Crime Alley after all and he didn't want to see him death.

Being a teenage father was probably not easy, even more so if he was the illegitimate child of a millionaire, ¿is that why he moved to Gotham? ¿Was he running from the bastard? but he hadn't seen any children ¿did he have to hand her over? He needed to talk with him after punch Vlad face for sure.

[zephyrchama]

The anachronistic feel within the House of Lamentation is neat and has so much potential to explore.

Leviathan has a multi-screen PC setup and virtual reality games that feel indistinguishable from reality. Beelzebub has to reheat food in a cauldron over a wood burning stove.

The lights in all the common rooms are either lamps or candles, including in the bathroom, but Asmodeus has a modern-looking crystal chandelier in his bathroom. The shared bathtub has a modern faucet but the kitchen sink is a hand pump.

Mammon has a surround sound stereo system and everybody can use the FabSnap app but they don't know what a slow cooker is.

Facilities in the Devildom as a whole can probably range from ancient to next generation futuristic. You never know if the building you're walking into will look like a historical museum exhibit or a contemporary upscale business.