Part 1: The Rents are Too Damn High! Renting hasn’t been easy for Fort Wayne resident Abby, who has moved on from an apartment that felt like anything but a luxury even though “Luxury” was part of its name. “What kind of ‘luxury apartment’ has one working elevator 80% of the time and makes you go to the basement and pay to do your own laundry, with washers and dryers that also are not working 80% of the time? Then raise our rent anyway! Every year, wherever I lived, they raised the rent. Nothing in the apartment changed, but they always added a hundred to two hundred dollars.” Another resident, Taylor, was lucky enough to buy a home in recent years, but her family members have to live further away because of high rent. She said, “The rent around Fort Wayne is way too expensive for...
