Rent Is Too Expensive and the Only Option Is Somewhere I Do Not Want to Live

Interviews with people searching for housing who describe being caught between apartments they cannot afford and neighborhoods they do not feel safe in — the classic housing trap articulated by the people living inside it, without euphemism, United States, May 2026. The statement is blunt because the situation is: people describe choosing between too-expensive and too-dangerous with no good option between them.

Who: People looking for housing in American cities, interviewed on the street about the limited options available to them

What: Interviews with people searching for housing who describe being caught between apartments they cannot afford and neighborhoods they do not feel safe in — the classic housing trap articulated by the people living inside it, without euphemism.

Where: United States

When: May 2026

Why: The statement is blunt because the situation is: people describe choosing between too-expensive and too-dangerous with no good option between them. That specific articulation — the thing people say out loud when they stop being polite about housing policy — is what this footage captures. May 2026, in a market where median rents had not declined in four years.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTrcZGzR1YM

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