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Good-Expression-4433 t1_jchgcz6 wrote

Reply to comment by DrewCrew62 in More than half of R.I. renters spend over 50% of their income on housing, new report finds by rhodyjourno

When people start caring enough to turn up to hearings.

Landlord and real estate investors show up to hearings on housing prices and development in large groups like clockwork and there's often only a very small handful of tenants that do, and even that's often done through a community activist group.

People are fine with bitching about things but they don't care enough to step up and do or say anything about it to the people that can change shit. Even if you physically can't attend, there's a lot people can do with outreach efforts on social media or just making a phone call/sending an email.

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Abaraji t1_jcixjm2 wrote

People showed up to protest at the hearings about the electricity rate hikes before last October and they still happened...

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jckc09a wrote

i think meaningful action requires more than a single protest/testimony at the 11th hour.

the electric rate hike sucks but we didn't even have the most extreme one in new england. having an oldass grid and other market factors werne't going to magically disappear if enough people talk about how much it sucks.

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