Rent in my neighborhood increased 12 per cent.

Study after study has shown that they decrease rental stock and drive up rents. Yet people still use them (please don't) and municipalities won't regulate them. I don't mean someone who rents out a room in an owner occupied house. There are whole buildings and lots of single family houses that are nothing but short term rentals.

Let's hope my failing health will offer a better solution to being homeless, disabled, and not worth a plugged nickel to anyone.

(Some sites place Minnesota in the top ten of expensive places to live. Some put it more in the middle of the list. I wish there was a way to measure the greed factor in a given geographic area. That list would go a lot further in helping people decide where they want to live as opposed to 'economic factors' that only really pertain to a small percentage of the population.)