I am frightened about the future. I belong to a neighborhood forum and within this week, there are 3 families who have posted that they are being evicted with nowhere to go. No money to make the necessary deposits (at least first and last month's rent) and rent is high. Two can no longer afford their rent as the landlord has raised it so significantly, one is having to move out because the landlord wants to sell the home. None of them have accumulated enough money to make deposits. They are asking for $$. They have started 'Go Fund Me Pages'. In this area, groceries have doubled, homeowners insurance has doubled and in some cases tripled, flood insurance is ridiculous, electricity has doubled as well as water. Everything has skyrocketed as you well know. Joe and the leftists policies are not only crumbling our Republic but ripping apart families as told in the story @link below:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/weve-living-tent-5-months-193246712.html
@libertybele$1200 per month rent for an apartment is a cheap price in most cities these days. Mostly because the 1200 bucks of today amounts to maybe 300 bucks in the dollars of 5 years ago.
IF your income is from some sort of retirement fund,and that is your sole income,your only valid option is to move to the outskirts of a medium or small town somewhere in semi-rural America,buy a half-acre or acre lot,and put a single-wide used mobile home on it.You will be paying your montly payments towards you living rent free in the future,and your rent won't go up and one day you won't have a rent payment to make. Just yearly property taxes and upkeep/maintenance.
People retired on fixed incomes based on SS payments that live in cities will soon be living in public housing on welfare,and at risk for being robbed and murdered for their cash on the 3rd of each month.
Try to find a plat of land that is unzoned within 15-20 miles of a medium-sized or small city that you can buy for cash,and then use the land as collateral for the bank loan you need to put in a well,driveway,septic tank,water pump,and used mobile home. Do that,and you can hope to avoid being put in publik housing.
And,of course,the downside is you will also have to buy a pickup or suv to have transportation because there will be no publik transportation avialable. Or maybe an upside,depending on your POV.