Chip Chick
As many commenters relate to her, Grace’s story has enraged the TikTok community.
“They’re acting as it increased against their will,” user5401626445388 wrote.
“Ask them what $8k worth of improvements they’ve done in the past year,” marinaelsa commented after Grace showed her apartment and the building in her video.
Some commenters simply “suggested” Grace could just move to another place. Although they might have said it out of good intention, Grace stated a claim in a follow-up video that comments like these fail to see more significant issues with housing today.
Grace started in the second video with how she feels there is this mentality in the U.S. society that “cash is king, the poor are just shit out of luck.”
“In the luxury industry, I think that makes sense. I would never go to a steakhouse expecting McDonald’s prices,” she continued. “The difference here is that housing is, in my personal opinion, a basic human right.”
She further stated that everyone, regardless of their “financial income and ability to contribute to society through labor,” should deserve a safe and stable home environment.
Grace then went back to her experience, saying that getting priced out of her apartment also removed her from her community.
She would no longer see her friend who lives in the same building supporting Grace as a family and some locations in the neighborhood she had finally built as her safe spaces to visit.
Continuing to raise prices, Grace stated, encourages a cultural phenomenon of not investing in a community because no one can be certain of its future.
The comment section was also majorly supportive of Grace.
