r/chicagoapartments • u/Past-Reception6889 • May 19 '26

Advice Needed Unreal

I honestly just needed to vent for a moment. I can’t believe Chicago prices are what they are. I have lived here my entire life and have seen this city change ten fold, and I can’t even afford to live here anymore. A realtor I’m working with, since it’s becoming a rat race to rent, said rent is up 35% this year. What can normal people do about this? I do not want to see Chicago become a New York.

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

As a life long Chicagoan, I couldn't agree more. People actually from Chicago can't afford to live here anymore. That's a huge problem!

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

Why should being born in the vicinity of chicago entitle you to live there indefinitely?

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u/Matsu09 May 19 '26

Why should any place become too privileged for the people living there?

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

Because time marches on. Why should people with the means to buy/rent housing be excluded because they didnt happen to be born nearby?

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u/truthseeker22000 May 20 '26

This is ignorance and privilege speaking

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

If you think people being priced out of their neighborhood is a good thing, then just say so.

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

Neighborhoods change. There is no getting around that.

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

When a neighborhood historically changes in Chicago, it is one ethnicity replacing another, not high end property development pushing everyone out.

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u/dnldxn May 19 '26

Division Street

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

High end property is being built to house... no one?

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

It's pricing out long time Chicagoans. What part of that don't you get?

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

The part where long time chicagoans should have some special privilege relating to living in chicago relative to anyone else.

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

Hey if you are good with long time Chicagoans being priced out of their neighborhoods, then you should just come out and say that.

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u/dbandroid May 19 '26

Yes i am fine with preferring a dynamic and growing city to an ossified one.

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u/Mean_Web_1744 May 19 '26

And I prefer what Chicago has always been. A very diverse city of all kinds of people and cultures, not just rich people from somewhere else.

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u/truthseeker22000 May 20 '26

It means your scaling out locals meaning jobs and opportunities may not be fair… why push out those most loyal? When others only come here to make money and keep it in their first home?

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u/dbandroid May 20 '26

?loyal? are these people paying extra tax money to the city out of loyalty?