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Lifestyle
Fred Onyango

A New York realtor went viral for saying homeless people seem “pretty comfortable.” The backlash was immediate

A New York realtor was stopped on the street for one of those TikTok interviews where real people talk about their real lives. This time, one pedestrian was being asked how much her rent was, to which she responded, “$8,000.” She was also asked the minimum amount someone would need to survive in New York, and her answer was called tasteless, unreal, or out of touch, depending on the user.

“I feel like the homeless people on the streets are pretty comfortable too, so like you don’t really have to make anything,” was her full answer. Which, in a vacuum, seems like probably the meanest thing someone could say when discussing the homelessness crisis — but the comments somehow topped her remarks.

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