Cleaning the “landlord special”
Rant: I’m a graduating student and I’ve been fighting this battle for years. My old apartment that I pay way too much has been neglected for probably decades by my slummy landlord is impossible to clean. I’ve been scrubbing with bar keepers friend and doing surfaces and decluttering. None of this is cutting it and it’s hard to explain to others who have not lived in an area monopolized by slum lords that NO, THERE IS NO BETTER OPTION.
UW students have do not have much of a choice because the landlord lobbying group has been successful at lobbying the university not to build more student housing.
We do not have a choice but to occupy the greater downtown area and slumlords have taken advantage of this.
Most of us cannot afford to live in the new luxury high rise student apartments and they sit at least half empty after their first year.
This rant is because nobody deserves to live in dangerous housing- even students.