29-05-2024, 08:02 PM
Our village has twelve units. Seven female tenants, five males. Of the women, three have mental health issues, one is a resident non citizen, one has gambling addiction issues, one is disabled, and the last one has early stage dementia. Of the menfolk, one has advanced copd, one is very aged and has personality issues that saw him abandoned by his family, two are socially inept and prefer their isolation, and the other is exactly the opposite, with such an active social life we rarely see him.
Not one of us is normal. Thank heavens - but each of us qualified through the fairly strict process to be granted a home in a pansioner village where the rents are subsidised to be 30% of gross income.
And you know something interesting? Rents today are a lower percentage of income than owners with mortgages. And, lower, in most cases than our 30%.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/3...make-sense
The world is a weird place. It doesn't pay to be 'normal'..
Not one of us is normal. Thank heavens - but each of us qualified through the fairly strict process to be granted a home in a pansioner village where the rents are subsidised to be 30% of gross income.
And you know something interesting? Rents today are a lower percentage of income than owners with mortgages. And, lower, in most cases than our 30%.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/3...make-sense
The world is a weird place. It doesn't pay to be 'normal'..