Sentence examples for rent so high from inspiring English sources

"With rent so high, it seems impossible for people like us to save enough to get anywhere near what we need for a deposit.

I had to leave a beautiful rental, studio apt., I rented for five years in Los Angeles as the landlord raised the rent so high I had to vacate.

The end came in much the same way it has come to scores of small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods throughout the city: a new landlord arrived and charged rent so high that the owners simply could not hold on.

The most common reasons for tenants losing their home are the landlord deciding to sell up (14 per cent) or raising the rent so high it becomes unaffordable to remain (7 per cent).

To recoup costs, the government set rents so high that no one could afford them.

"Rents so high that if you're, like, a young person coming from the sticks or whatever, you can't really afford it," Hamilton said.

With rents so high, no one should be surprised that the homeless population of the New Orleans area appears to have doubled since Hurricane Katrina.

"Every day at Shelter we see the devastating impact of a housing market at boiling point, with the cost of renting so high that many families are living in fear that just one thing like losing their job or becoming ill could leave them with the bailiffs knocking at the door.

"Unless we take radical action we will see more and more small communities wither, our big cities will become every more congested as we continue to pile on top of each other and the lack of supply will push prices and rents so high that – unless you or your parents are very rich – for so many young people living in your dream home is going to be a pipe dream," the draft of Clegg's speech says.

With downtown rents so high, it's still a good time to buy, he said.

Part of the reason so many people want to buy is because renting conditions can be so poor, while rent is so high.