We should start publicly shaming landlords and collect/post all rental price information to show everyone how terrible it has gotten. Burlington Vermont is now as expensive as Boston/NYC, WTF.
@@TheCatherineCC And then killing them. People are so scared to go there, but let's be real. Cockroaches cannot be negotiated with, and appeals to a sense of shame among landlords is both hopeless and just plain not knowing what you are dealing with.
Const of living and housing, gas, taxes in Vermont is out of control in general. The middle class has been slowly being squeezed out of Vermont since the early 2ks. Really sad to see. Burlington in particular is way out of control....if you have people commuting an hour from Plattsburgh you know there is a big problem.
I have no idea how we'd get this through city council (or even higher government) but we definitely need to break up some of these larger property management outfits and limit out of state / absentee investor ownership. thanks for all the work you put in to making your videos! take care
Burlington really needs to urbanize more. Rezone, improve transit, heck light rail would be amazing. If we want to keep youth here while also keeping it reasonably affordable, cutting transportation costs and improving density would go a long way. Church Street is really special - why not expand upon those ideas?
If people were required to live in or work in all properties they own, the government would end up controlling most housing. That hasn't worked well, historically.
It's getting to the point where you have to move out to the boonies to find anything affordable, and even there prices are rising. And with prices of utilities, gas and groceries rising far faster than wages people are going into thousands of dollars of debt just to keep their rotting victorian roofs over their heads. Meanwhile, in places like Williston practically an entire city of apartment complexes has gone up, and I don't know who the hell lives there because their price for a lousy studio was $1,400 a month with no utilities last I checked. It's so sad, when I first came up here in 2005 (yeah Jonny, I'm one of those people) to go to school Burlington had it's problems, but it had a great deal of spirit, personality and individuality. Now it's just a cynical husk of itself, and there are just a few reminders left of what it used to be like before greedy, speculative assholes destroyed it and drugs were allowed to eat the working class and blue collar folks alive.
We got priced out of vt we looked all over within driving distance and nothing! We ended up moving to ct where my husband was from originally. We miss vt so much but we don’t miss the struggle with affordability
Moral pf the story; eat the rich. Absolutely right about church street right now, walked it last week while i was on the job, and said to myself "huh, if i dont want booze, weed, upscale clothing or souvenirs, there ain't shit here"
Somehow it has become a place with a lot going on, but not much to do. I literally only go down there to show it to family who visit the area for the first time because they often read about it in a travel blog before they come to town.
Yup we moved to st Albans 😢 But I work in the area again. And to Sodexo's credit, they are paying me $24/hr to supervise a really easy college dining hall. So I could technically afford that crooked apartment and move back!!!
Left VT for a job post-grad. Insane to see that the rent I pay now in SoCal a mile from the beach is only marginally more expensive than some shitbox in Burly. Do not let Burlington become some yuppie gentrification station and keep Vermont weird (and affordable for fucks sake bud)
It's everywhere. Pretty bad over here on the opposite side of the state, too. I'm "fortunate" to have my place at 800 bucks in a half-double wide trailer. Fuck.
It would be an interesting idea to try and build more apartments and housing units. Given the design review rejected converting the closed pizza hut into 30 apartments...
Get your local government to build or buy non-stigmatic, middle-class, not-for-profit rentals. "Public Housing" is the stigma of "Don't put all these poor people in my NIMBY." Don't make it just for the lowest income. Don't force a for-profit operation to throw a couple basement cells into their unaffordable new building and then keep rents high for the majority of units. Build competitive not-for-profit housing for all incomes. Open the units and fill them. When you get a vacancy, don't raise the rent. *Never sell the building*. Borrow on it to build more housing. Compete with private landlords. Keep the market rate low for rents.
Can anyone name all the neighborhoods of Burlington? I’m working on a project about a town I’ve never been to and any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
😂😂 I still buy from the Swanns man! But I do live in a town house in Milton and it's only because I somehow got lucky enough when I moved here literally 4 months before they knew what covid was from Boston! My kids father brought covid to us before we knew what covid was we were sick with it and got over it! But my rent has gone up 5 times in the last 2 ½ years that I have been here! I did grow up in Burlington, though, before living in Boston for 12 years!
If it makes you feel any better, my old house in a suburb of Detroit has doubled in value since 2016. I could not afford it again. The whole system needs to burn up. It feels like 2006 again.
I’ve been a Burlingtonian my whole life. It used to have tons of character, 69 Main St. parties, Peru Street house parties, hanging out on church street after school or in the dream machine..(96 graduate here) now I live within walking distance of downtown and avoid DT at All costs.
Good points. I'd also add VT's land and building zoning which they are revising to be more flexible for more housing, but also a very high demand up against a limited supply. Think Cape Cod. And if Burl just keeps building it will ruin the place which I think is what is happening now. The good news is that high demand limited supply can mean positive development for nearby areas like Barre, Milton, Rutland etc. And getting people to resettle Northern VT up to Newport. I think that is the better answer than to overpopulate Burl and pollute the lake which is in full swing now. If I were mayor I would have said we only have so much supply to offer. I would not go with this, We're going to build our way out of this solution. B/c these other places throughout the state need people and business.
Could we get like 3 of those restaurants to come down to the South East please, they can't be as bad as the Sysco fueled garbage that everyone serves down here.
s/o to the out-of-state scumbags who no cause evicted me from the barely-maintained old family home on elmwood ave i shared w four roommates and two downstairs neighbors this spring so they could sell it to some other scumbags love u so much
Man the whole of Vermont is usually pretty expensive to live in
Personally I think we should start adding more Pits. The downtown Pit is an incredible piece of architecture and we need more of them.
not clever or funny
4:28 Damn you 😂
We should start publicly shaming landlords and collect/post all rental price information to show everyone how terrible it has gotten.
Burlington Vermont is now as expensive as Boston/NYC, WTF.
publicly shaming landlords in the Mao way
@@TheCatherineCC And then killing them. People are so scared to go there, but let's be real. Cockroaches cannot be negotiated with, and appeals to a sense of shame among landlords is both hopeless and just plain not knowing what you are dealing with.
It is definitely not as expensive as Boston was for me to live but I see your point in rising costs!
You can't shame people without shame
I appreciate your artistic choice to use the Spider Man pizza song
funny how this is more informative than local news
4:12 - only real heads know
True Vermonters
Const of living and housing, gas, taxes in Vermont is out of control in general. The middle class has been slowly being squeezed out of Vermont since the early 2ks. Really sad to see. Burlington in particular is way out of control....if you have people commuting an hour from Plattsburgh you know there is a big problem.
Things are getting so bad Plattsburgh is getting better!
I have no idea how we'd get this through city council (or even higher government) but we definitely need to break up some of these larger property management outfits and limit out of state / absentee investor ownership. thanks for all the work you put in to making your videos! take care
Spittin fire rn
We need to advocate for more dense housing
@@circuitsalsa plus restricting corporate landlords
lived in burlington for 11 months and it was insanely expensive,
left Burl in august 2020 and moved to Austin and SAVED MONEY. It was astounding.
i live on North st. they raised my rent $300 in the last year, 200 of it couple of weeks ago. This place is bad, really bad.
Vermont's lack of a Red Lobster has been holding it back for decades. Glad to see this issue getting the attention it deserves.
Chic fil A is next......
the biscuits are the best part the rest of the menu aint nuttin special.
Bro this video is a gem, how tf have I not seen this before? I’m from Boston Mass and every decent town around here has the same exact problems.
240p ONLY! The Highest of quality!!
The HD is finishing its upload. You caught it right as I uploaded it
HD version finally up
@@JonnyWanzer I did not know youtube did it that way, that's very interesting.
So needed this content today😂😂😂
Rename to "why everywhere is so expensive right now" cuz it fits.
I'm so glad you're back!
The green house in the background was appraised last year at $600,000 and is for sale right now for $2 million.
Gross as fuck
I worked at city market for 3 and half years, boy did they treat us like a sacrifice during covid.
I always told myself that place was ground zero for covid in the city during the pandemic!
@@avann2006 thankfully I never got it while I was still working there
Glad to hear!
Burlington really needs to urbanize more. Rezone, improve transit, heck light rail would be amazing. If we want to keep youth here while also keeping it reasonably affordable, cutting transportation costs and improving density would go a long way. Church Street is really special - why not expand upon those ideas?
But if we build too high it'll block the views!
Light rail? LMAO are you serious?
@@JHvideoswhy not?
@@RG32822build just enough to not block the view then
Burlington had streetcars a long time ago, they paved over them lol. Why not bring them back if it makes financial sense?
If people were required to live in or work in all properties they own, the government would end up controlling most housing. That hasn't worked well, historically.
Suggestion you should do a video about the Champlain Valley Fair!!
It's getting to the point where you have to move out to the boonies to find anything affordable, and even there prices are rising. And with prices of utilities, gas and groceries rising far faster than wages people are going into thousands of dollars of debt just to keep their rotting victorian roofs over their heads. Meanwhile, in places like Williston practically an entire city of apartment complexes has gone up, and I don't know who the hell lives there because their price for a lousy studio was $1,400 a month with no utilities last I checked. It's so sad, when I first came up here in 2005 (yeah Jonny, I'm one of those people) to go to school Burlington had it's problems, but it had a great deal of spirit, personality and individuality. Now it's just a cynical husk of itself, and there are just a few reminders left of what it used to be like before greedy, speculative assholes destroyed it and drugs were allowed to eat the working class and blue collar folks alive.
We got priced out of vt we looked all over within driving distance and nothing! We ended up moving to ct where my husband was from originally. We miss vt so much but we don’t miss the struggle with affordability
Moral pf the story; eat the rich. Absolutely right about church street right now, walked it last week while i was on the job, and said to myself "huh, if i dont want booze, weed, upscale clothing or souvenirs, there ain't shit here"
Somehow it has become a place with a lot going on, but not much to do. I literally only go down there to show it to family who visit the area for the first time because they often read about it in a travel blog before they come to town.
Freaking 300.00 for 1 night in the hotel.
This is everywhere right now
omg burlington has a furry community!? accelerating plans to move there now ! 😮
Johnny always had a way of explaining things so I’s could under stand them.
Yup we moved to st Albans 😢
But I work in the area again. And to Sodexo's credit, they are paying me $24/hr to supervise a really easy college dining hall. So I could technically afford that crooked apartment and move back!!!
Left VT for a job post-grad. Insane to see that the rent I pay now in SoCal a mile from the beach is only marginally more expensive than some shitbox in Burly. Do not let Burlington become some yuppie gentrification station and keep Vermont weird (and affordable for fucks sake bud)
I wish I could double like for Trauma Center: UTK 2 jam. Good work producer/sound guy.
that would be... me. i do everything haha
It's everywhere. Pretty bad over here on the opposite side of the state, too. I'm "fortunate" to have my place at 800 bucks in a half-double wide trailer. Fuck.
It would be an interesting idea to try and build more apartments and housing units. Given the design review rejected converting the closed pizza hut into 30 apartments...
the heineberg senior center keeps having those Schwan's trucks in every week. they are probably buying
Get your local government to build or buy non-stigmatic, middle-class, not-for-profit rentals.
"Public Housing" is the stigma of "Don't put all these poor people in my NIMBY."
Don't make it just for the lowest income. Don't force a for-profit operation to throw a couple basement cells into their unaffordable new building and then keep rents high for the majority of units.
Build competitive not-for-profit housing for all incomes.
Open the units and fill them. When you get a vacancy, don't raise the rent.
*Never sell the building*. Borrow on it to build more housing.
Compete with private landlords. Keep the market rate low for rents.
Next episode: Johnny gets tired of urban life and starts an off grid kibbutz farm with Gold Shaw branded protein powder (Morgan is getting yolked!)
morgan and i are cookin up something tho shhh
Can't do anything about greed, but at least we can watch Jonny's rants. Would love to see some streetside journalism, gettin amongst it.
Thanks for the selfie today! You're like the Peter Zeihan of Burlington, but funnier.
Can anyone name all the neighborhoods of Burlington? I’m working on a project about a town I’ve never been to and any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
I dunno, that sounded like a pretty good list of solutions to me...
😂😂 I still buy from the Swanns man! But I do live in a town house in Milton and it's only because I somehow got lucky enough when I moved here literally 4 months before they knew what covid was from Boston! My kids father brought covid to us before we knew what covid was we were sick with it and got over it! But my rent has gone up 5 times in the last 2 ½ years that I have been here!
I did grow up in Burlington, though, before living in Boston for 12 years!
This Baguette will never stop being annoying on Church street. I love you guys too much.
#housingforall
If it makes you feel any better, my old house in a suburb of Detroit has doubled in value since 2016. I could not afford it again. The whole system needs to burn up. It feels like 2006 again.
I’ve been a Burlingtonian my whole life. It used to have tons of character, 69 Main St. parties, Peru Street house parties, hanging out on church street after school or in the dream machine..(96 graduate here) now I live within walking distance of downtown and avoid DT at All costs.
Good points. I'd also add VT's land and building zoning which they are revising to be more flexible for more housing, but also a very high demand up against a limited supply. Think Cape Cod. And if Burl just keeps building it will ruin the place which I think is what is happening now. The good news is that high demand limited supply can mean positive development for nearby areas like Barre, Milton, Rutland etc. And getting people to resettle Northern VT up to Newport. I think that is the better answer than to overpopulate Burl and pollute the lake which is in full swing now. If I were mayor I would have said we only have so much supply to offer. I would not go with this, We're going to build our way out of this solution. B/c these other places throughout the state need people and business.
i quit halfway through the vid when it was clear my man doesn't understand economics..
whats ur take
Be honest, you quit halfway through because that adhd got you staring at the squirrel outside.
@@darkwingduck1189 I do love squirrels
@@tallyrclol, they are kind of intriguing.
Could we get like 3 of those restaurants to come down to the South East please, they can't be as bad as the Sysco fueled garbage that everyone serves down here.
it's all Sysco fueled garbage
P r o m o S M
Dang average income being only a dollar more than illinois minimum wage is dire. With those rent costs its highway robbery
I thought you quit?
Nah. Check the Rutland video for update in the lore
s/o to the out-of-state scumbags who no cause evicted me from the barely-maintained old family home on elmwood ave i shared w four roommates and two downstairs neighbors this spring so they could sell it to some other scumbags love u so much
Aw I hope the break with Krystal was mutual. Also, it would be cool if your political ideas/solutions evolved past freshman year at UVM. Love ya!
How to delete someone else's comment???
Lmao hope this W got u through your day bud