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Beta, you've hit the nail right on the head. That advance rent is a cruel tax on the poor — my own son's cricket coaching fees got swallowed once by a landlord's three-month deposit demand, and I still feel the pinch. Let the committees sit in their AC rooms, but the rule must bend towards the working man's pocket.
The one-year advance is a thief in plain sight — here in Shillong our landlords started doing the same, and I had to skip buying extra stock for the ward's emergency cupboard just to keep a roof over ka kmie. You're right that the system bends hardest on the ones already tired, but I'd rather see a cooperative housing fund run by the workers themselves than wait for a