start lowballing landlords
EDIT: yes we are all aware of supply and demand, but negotiating price is and always has been a common practice in real estate and many other fields. It’s a millennial/gen z brain rot thing to think there’s something wrong or entitled about negotiating. Also do any of you pay any attention to the news? NYC had the largest negative population growth in the whole country this year. The population here is declining lol.
Another edit: one-off individual actions are cool and all, but what works better is getting involved with tenant organizing and collectively working against the landlords: https://citylimits.org/in-gentrifying-bushwick-residents-new-and-old-unite-to-organize-tenants/
I fear we as a society forgot we can negotiate rent. Obviously, the demand often works in the landlords favor but i see my shitty apartment up there on StreetEasy rn for $400 more than what they offered us to renew and i pray no one accepts that. Please everyone even if you found an okay deal, negotiate!! Offer lower!! Ask for a free month!! I’ve been messaging brokers at apartments I’m not even interested in to put in a lower offer. If this happens in masse it will make apartment hunting easier for all of us <3 In the last month I’ve come across multiple people paying $1900 a month to live with multiple roommates in very mediocre apartments in BUSHWICK. Off the Halsey L no less. No hate to that part of bushwick but a $5700 3 bed 1 bath there is just sickening. Even more sickening is that someone was willing to pay that. The brokers are advertising the apartments for way more than they’ll actually accept, please for the love of god try to negotiate your rent down