In Houston there is so much blight properties that parts of town look abandoned. Yet, affordable housing is not even on the agenda of basic needs especially for seniors. Turning these properties into affordable homes would make a transformational impact on this town!
Pretty sure it’s about half a block, which did include a Burger King about a decade ago. It also had a bunch of other things like a Union hall, a Korean run Fresh Totilla Grill, a McDonalds, and a smoke shop, to name a few.
If those could fit families of four or five, that makes housing for between 2428 and 3035 people. That's very good as blue states are going to have incoming floods from red states.
I'm appalled that in my city we have several abandoned buildings yet we have homeless people with nowhere to live ..and they are always building stuff we don't really need here like car washes .....make it make sense please ..
The issue isn't "not enough housing," it "not enough housing that people can actually afford."
Too much new housing is luxury condos, affordable only to people who don't have to struggle to pay a mortgage.
People often forget that for every “luxury” unit that gets built, it means a yuppie moved out of the “old” apartments and into this, leaving space for the rest of us to rent at a better rate since the vacated units are no longer the new hotness. Everybody has to live somewhere, even the yuppies.
Okay but the rent on their old place doesn't go down, if we could afford those already we'd be living there. It doesn't work the way you're saying it does.
I see what you’re saying. My response is broaden out the thought. If you have renters that can afford the rent in that old location, they move and create vacancies in their old units. That keeps cascading and does create vacancies in units that are more affordable down the line.
People move for all sorts of reasons beyond price point. Some folks are looking for shorter commutes, better school districts, different lifestyle, new jobs, etc. New units, regardless of price point, are almost always going to be a net benefit to people looking for housing at all income levels.
Developers were building luxury condos and apartments by the bucketful for more than the past decade, if what you're saying is true why is there a housing crisis? What you're saying is just not what we see with gentrification.
True. But bucketfuls don’t mean much when your problem is ocean sized. I’m not saying you don’t have a point, there are issues beyond this such as zoning, density, transit, etc. There is truth is truth to what I’m saying, it’s just not a magic bullet. It’s another tool in the toolbox.
Crazy idea, make every home built to ridiculously good standards until crazy good standards are the norm and we all live in luxury, regardless of our 'class'.
That is awesome news. Also (random) if you are a Mid-Atlantic native plant nerd, there is a huge 20 story Joe Pye Eeed mural in Jersey City. Absolutely exquisite.
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Too much new housing is luxury condos, affordable only to people who don't have to struggle to pay a mortgage.
“at the burger king? zero”
Markets can be regulated lol
https://jerseydigs.com/499-501-summit-ave-jersey-city-plans-submitted/
https://www.newyorkyimby.com/2023/09/developers-break-ground-at-499-summit-avenue-in-jersey-city.html