PART 1: Tomassetti, Briella. “NYC Rent Increase Approved for Rent-Stabilized Apartments: What to Know.” FOX 5 New York, FOX 5 New York, 22 June 2023, www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-rent-increase-approved-rent-stabilized-apartments. 

PART 2:

Rent stabilized apartments 

Rent Guidelines Board 

Inflation

1-year-leases

two-year leases 

Landlords

property taxes

PART 3:

As new yorkers rent stabilized apartments struggle to pay rent, the Rent Guidelines Board pushed out a law that will increase rent. These tenants are still trying to pick themselves up from the pandemic and the inflation. According to the study recorded by Briella Tomassetti on FOX 5, she states “[…] the board voted to raise rents on one-year leases by 3%.” Conflict between tenants rises to the landlords which they are also struggling to pay property taxes that were also inflated in price. It’s a game of “who is there to blame!”

PART 4:

The quote that is mentioned in the article is no lie. People don’t care about people that live in apartments. I, myself, who’s been living in an apartment in Queens, I have first hand witnessed the increase in rent. My dad who’s been trapped in the “American dream” working 9-5 his whole life ever since he stepped foot into this country. Watching him work and work and not being able to help him at the moment is very disappointing. There’s only so much to blame the landlord but they, themselves are also struggling to pay the property taxes. I’m sure morally they feel bad but what can they do? They are also citizens who need money and will do whatever makes them money. Who is there left to blame for the rent? 

PART 5: 

“”They don’t care. They think they’re talking to dogs, trees and rubbish! They’re not concerned about us.””

“[…]the board voted to raise rents on one-year leases by 3%.”

“On two-year leases, rents will go up by 2.75% in the first year and 3.2% in the second year, averaging out to a 4.4% increase over the course of two years.”

“Landlords, on the other hand, said they desperately need the money to combat rising property taxes, insurance, building repairs and other hefty costs across the board.” 

I would like to start off by saying i hate using technology to map out my ideas. Anyway, I’m choosing to write about the common narrative we’ve all heard all our lives, “forgive and forget.” Imagine you are telling someone something that means everything to you and the first thing they tell you is “just forget it… you can’t do anything to change that.” If this isn’t the most insulting thing to tell someone you are a cold person. Kidding, everyone handles things differently but majority of the time you aren’t fully over the situations and how you feel about it. These two books help the changing the common narrative by emphasizing the emotions and process as takes to fully accept what happened and move on. On that note, the narrative people should start following is “Accept, then move on.”

Well, wasn’t that interesting to read… Nothing in the article that was said was un true. Wow I actually enjoyed this article. Anyway, as we ALL may know, everything revolves around money. Even in times where there wasn’t a small green slip made out of paper with a considered GOD stamped on it, there was always something that gave people power. Today, whoever has money, they can fly meaning they have great power over anyone. Currently according to the author, we are in stage 3 which I refer to as “Time of Regret.”

“Short and simple” plays big in attracting anyone to read anything. SO many events have happened in history but Atwood managed to narrow it down to four stages. FOUR. To add on, from her mood to her diction, she emphasizes that us, as humans, are stupid. Having to describe money as “god” shows that money is powerful. GOD, “powerful” would be an understatement. “It FEAST on famines, songs of joy, lamentations.” This is to show how powerful money can be. SO powerful it consumes what humans need.

(Image from https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/dead-planet)

To move on to stage 4, she doesn’t describe the planet as “dead.” She describes the series of events that now the planet is just a large patch of sand that surrounds what used to be nature. “we did not stop in our industrious creation of deserts.” The planet did not just “die.” We KILLED it. And thats our path as human society…

REPORTING DEAD FROM THE DESERT, I AM HUMAN, BACK TO YOU…

Starbucks is romanticized too much. From the overpriced coffee they serve to each visit being different, I find it hard to believe people have a life after doing any type of work there. I would say i’m closed off but not enough to prevent myself from having a conversation with someone. If it happens, it happens. Do I want it to happen? Who even knows (lol). Regardless of my opinion, I see why people choose starbucks and not just any type of location.

As a college student, I don’t want to get work done. Also, because I leave home early and come home late, I have to come up with a plan that allows me to do my work and study whenever I get the chance between my classes. I went to starbucks about 3 times during my break. The first time was good and peaceful. The second was in and out. The third one was with a friend and it was loud. I didn’t mind it at all as I did get work done. With decent wifi and conversation, it was a good experience. If i’m not with a friend chances of me talking to someone are very VERY slim. Not because of me but cause of others. No one has time to talk if they have they’re wired in with a laptop in front of them drinking their overpriced coffee than can put anyone in good health in cardiac arrest.

“https://mashable.com/article/diabetes-here-i-come-starbucks”

In terms of the article, yes people are loosing human touch/focus everyday. But its something that everyone has to fix personally because no one has the same schedule anyone or same ideas as before. We have to work now. Hang outs with friends are rare and if anything, a memory to always remember. Whatever the case is sadly, thats life. Welcome to the “American Dream”.

“Reading is fundamental” is what my friend in middle school told me after I told him that I don’t read because I get bored easily. Has anything changed since then? I’d be lying if I said “yes” but not entirely. I managed to break past my wall of procrastination and I got to WILLINGLY read a book. I never finished the book (LMFAO) but I did learn if I really wanted to do something, I would do it without complaint.

Now a days, I try to read more and more. But today… I just wasn’t feeling it. I wanted to take the easy way out and not do this assignment which lead to a heavy amount of procrastination. Skimming through the pages as Carr has said in the article. I could not have agreed with him more. After reading 2 paragraph I resulted in looking at my phone to see what notifications i have received out of bordem (there was nothing to see LMFAO). Switching the channel to the T.V after reading one sentence. Back and fourth throughout the whole article until i finished… or what I thought I had finished. “Wait… what did i just read” is what i told myself after skimming through the story.

Everything is advancing surrounding technology and if you’re not read like me, you just gotta suck it up sadly. I don’t read well and take notes properly when using modern technology as it creates so much distraction for me but because college consist of modern tech… do I even have to repeat it again (just gotta suck it up)? Humans are not suited to be a “machine memory” in terms of always having an answer to everything. Yes we should work hard to get what we want in terms of rewards but c’mon tech is makes us so lazy its horrible. Bring back old school textbooks and pen to paper notes so I can look forward to doing my assignments!

How many times have you been told by your parents to get off your phone or tablet because you were playing Minecraft? How many times did you want to want to tell them to F*ck off?? If you said no then you are a great child! If you said yes… you deserved to get smacked.

I would say I used to part of the “Minecraft” discourse YEARS ago when I was in 3rd grade. Minecraft has its special and peculiar way to express literacy. From the simple complex engineering to the unlimit-less imagination to build anything, Minecraft can teach you a few thing. For instance, Minecraft has allowed me to not limit my imagination. Because Minecraft is supposed to micic the real world (in a sense), it can be relatable to some. My dream house I’ve wanted ever since I were 10 years old. I have build it from scratch in a game that is considered a “waste of time.” Where do I hope this leads in the next 20-30 years? Me living in that same model house I built. It gave me the creativity to think outside the box.

Because I’m not in that discourse anymore, that doesn’t mean I haven’t carried those traits along with me. Specifically with “Active, Critical” Learning Principle. In Minecraft, you are a human. You live multiple days and nights which you have to survive. You start from nothing until u chop a tree which then in the matter of days you’ve found the rarest item in the game: diamonds. This can be compared to the real world which a diamond is money. Money had power and value. You can never stop growing money. Money is the foundation of life. I get to carry my ideas and values onto other discourses such as the latino community.