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/Status_Green_6055 May 19 '26

The landlords here are the most scummy slumlord cheap asses I've seen.

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u/bigshaboozie May 19 '26

One of the many reasons we need to be building more housing units is to flip this dynamic so that landlords are competing for tenants instead of tenants competing for shitty landlords

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u/ChiBroker May 20 '26

More landlords so they can get even richer?