As I said in another thread, Adams may be corrupt, but people will vote for him for these reasons, people want government to work. 1877418353632878750 is not a valid tweet id
100K over 10 years is very little, but even that will be hard to do. 1878099399965880696 is not a valid tweet id
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. 1883155251991359922 is not a valid tweet id 1882941643478745332 is not a valid tweet id
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. 1896032942830596472 is not a valid tweet id
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. 1895378713996599630 is not a valid tweet id
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.)" 1918388351486574736 is not a valid tweet id
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.”" 1923016933118484588 is not a valid tweet id
Texas cities keep showing the way. "Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements." 1923038915222479322 is not a valid tweet id
Initial numbers about Portland increasing Inclusionary zoning requirements from 10% to 25% 1923474775344648427 is not a valid tweet id
Is that metro area? Because I’m thinking Kay’s graph must be cities and not Metro, otherwise The Lou would be there.