As I said in another thread, Adams may be corrupt, but people will vote for him for these reasons, people want government to work. Not a single Mayoral candidate wants fare evasion enforcement except for Eric Adams. pic.twitter.com/7o0ntf7ZkN— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) January 9, 2025
100K over 10 years is very little, but even that will be hard to do. Manhattan used to be full of working-class families, and too many have had to move out as housing prices went up.We're going to build 100,000 new homes in the next decade to reach a total of 1 MILLION homes in Manhattan.Our vision is called “The Manhattan Plan.” pic.twitter.com/Capn5tdGk6— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) January 11, 2025
It may take long and cost a lot of money, but it feeds the bureaucratic monster 1878133455848149057 is not a valid tweet id
When you let them build, they (price corrections) will come. Econ 101 remains underrated pic.twitter.com/hKLnHRhHkJ— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) January 25, 2025 Thanks to our efforts to build more housing, we’re seeing a significant drop in rents and an increase in vacancy rates, making homeownership and rentals less expensive, but there’s a lot more to do! pic.twitter.com/0gWgr0W3VN— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) January 25, 2025
Why can't we have cheap houses, well because it costs over 800K per unit to build affordable housing may be a clue. 1885790024127369233 is not a valid tweet id
One of the problems of Build baby build, is that there have to be policies that punish holding unoccupied housing. The whole housing is an investment encourages people to just hold on to properties even if they are empty for the value speculation. An example from Taiwan Edit: one issue, is the location of the empty houses, maybe the majority are in rural areas that people do not want to live in. https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/01/30/why-taiwanese-youth-complain-of-becoming-housing-slaves
Think this is probably the best place for this, a homelessness is widely a city issue. https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...homelessness/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Basically, gives a couple of example of a Park Ranger in San Francisco getting a couple of homeless people into housing. And the difficulty it entails. And how long it takes. For just 2 people (From 2021 to now she estimates 50 to 60 in total have become housed). It also gets into how much emotional effort it takes to get somebody into housing, and hopefully stay there.
Philadelphia and unions. I can actually see the benefit, it's hard for city regulations to catch up to new technology, but the regulations eventually need to be updated to catch up with the times. Learned yesterday that when the Comcast building was being built in Philly in 2006, the plumber’s union vehemently opposed the installation of waterless urinals and arrived at a compromise by building a piping system behind the wall that just never got connected for actual use pic.twitter.com/SP9dsCwUNx— TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗 (@TheOmniZaddy) March 2, 2025
Do we have a housing thread? I will post here as it is important for building more housing in cities. As long as the stairs have working sprinklers, having only one is as good as having 2. Important research by the @pewtrusts shows that 4-6 storey apartments with a single fire stair do not put residents at any greater fire risk (as compared to 2 stairs)Single stairs are also cheaper, and could allow much more housing to be built!https://t.co/K2iWwTPvVZ pic.twitter.com/1FtGN3HfX7— Philip Oldfield (@SustainableTall) February 28, 2025
The people are coming back, maybe because companies are scaling back the work from home. Or because living outside a city is only fun for a little while. NY population shifts " 2020-2021 -256,895 2021-2022 -144,529 2022-2023 +33,620 2023-2024 +129,881 2024-2025 +129,852 (est.)" New York population shifts 2020-2021 -256,8952021-2022 -144,5292022-2023 +33,6202023-2024 +129,8812024-2025 +129,852 (est.)2020: 20,105,1712025: 19,997,100😊 https://t.co/Agtc3YZza4— Zac Harmon 🌈 (@Zprtr1) May 2, 2025
Ahem... No it really doesn't and the cost of a stair tower isn't what's stopping the construction of more mid and high rise residential towers. You're probably not even able to replace the lost space with a functional rental unit - nor are you just going to add a couple of SF to the rest of the units so you can move the rental needle up and increase your functional profit. And THE ENTIRE FUCKING REASON FOR HAVING TWO OR MORE EXITS is the Sum of All Fears scenario where I fire breaks out at the entrance to the exit stair AND the fire suppression system is either out of service or is unable to extinguish the fire.
Detroit is finally growing again. Super excited for this because it means more jobs, more things to do and such. But on an emotional level it means I get to see my hometown start to flourish again. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...-estimates-revised-upward-duggan/83630070007/
So Chicago grew it's population the last few years, we may need to thanks Abbott in Texas for that. "“Demographers say the uptick was probably due to the arrival of migrants, many of them on buses sent from Texas.”" “Demographers say the uptick was probably due to the arrival of migrants, many of them on buses sent from Texas.”I think if 55K migrants came in 2023-2024 and the city grew by 22K then it is clearly not “probably” due to migrants but obviously due to migrants. https://t.co/XXhRCwG4uB— A.J. Manaseer (@AJManaseer) May 15, 2025
Texas cities keep showing the way. "Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements." Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements.🏙️eliminated in Downtown & within 1/2 mile of transit🛍️eliminated for office & most retail🏛️eliminated for historic buildings🚗reduced for other residential uses📍Dallas pic.twitter.com/oj9gZxFrW7— Jonathan Berk (@berkie1) May 15, 2025
Initial numbers about Portland increasing Inclusionary zoning requirements from 10% to 25% .@CityPortland’s 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn’t spark affordability — it torched production.From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results. pic.twitter.com/pOebe9BLaD— Eamonn T. Dundon (@etdundon) May 16, 2025
Is that metro area? Because I’m thinking Kay’s graph must be cities and not Metro, otherwise The Lou would be there.