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I'm one of many thousands of San Francisco residents who are paying way more than the national monthly rent for an apartment. I understand the idea of supply and demand , but when an individual who is trying to make a living and trying to live in a world class City shouldn't be giving up close to in my opinion 50% of their monthly pay.  In the book, one housing law was listed. The state of California has "a law called the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act that limited the scope of what sorts of rent control to single-family houses and condominiums and any apartment built after 1995 (or whatever year the city passed its rent control ordinance, which in San Francisco was 1979). It also freed landlords from rent regulation whenever a tenant moved out, allowing them to raise the rent back to the market price." page. 204-205 In light of the current Coronavirus epidemic , the impact on housing and how to maintain, and pay for it, is a huge stress on renters. This book ...

This book is one of America's classics used in countless high schools as a literature standard. In light of this recent Coronavirus pandemic , I searched through some books I've been dying to revisit and appreciate. The Catcher in the Rye is one of them.  Set in the 1950's Pennsylvania ,  this book delves in a young man's life of borderline teenage years to leap into inevitable adulthood. It's simply a story of a boy's age of becoming. In his efforts to get through this threshold of life, he encounters individual, social, and personal challenges.  One quote, that says it all.  " . . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all." It's a reminder, that we all struggle in one way or ...