The Cities Thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by That Phat Hat, Sep 12, 2012.

  1. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    As I said in another thread, Adams may be corrupt, but people will vote for him for these reasons, people want government to work.

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  2. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    100K over 10 years is very little, but even that will be hard to do.


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  3. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It may take long and cost a lot of money, but it feeds the bureaucratic monster

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  4. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #1679 ceezmad, Jan 25, 2025
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    When you let them build, they (price corrections) will come.


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  5. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why can't we have cheap houses, well because it costs over 800K per unit to build affordable housing may be a clue.

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  6. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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
     
  7. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  8. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
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  9. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
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  10. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    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.

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  11. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    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.

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  12. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.)"



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  13. Val1

    Val1 Moderator
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    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
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    Arsenal FC
    Very interesting read. Thanks for that!
     
  14. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
  15. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
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    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Take the soccer talk somewhere else
     
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  16. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  17. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
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    Chelsea FC
  18. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.”"

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  19. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Texas cities keep showing the way.

    "Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements."

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  20. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Initial numbers about Portland increasing Inclusionary zoning requirements from 10% to 25%


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  21. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    On the Detroit front, 2nd in population growth behind Columbus for the Midwest

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  22. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Made me look. I had no idea Kansas City is nearly twice as big as St. Louis.
     
  23. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    I'm seeing KC as 2.1 million vs StL as 2.8 million.
     
  24. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Is that metro area? Because I’m thinking Kay’s graph must be cities and not Metro, otherwise The Lou would be there.
     
  25. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    Yeah, St. Louis proper seems kind of hollowed out.
     

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