bobbyfijan.bsky.social
Building Housing for Families
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Can be remote, but must be in US. Will need to travel to be in person for some team meetings.
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I already have a national architecture firm engaged. I’m looking for someone to be on our team in addition to do designs and floorplans internally.
Mostly … want someone who can think like a Product, and help design something great for families.
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And yes I agree there are other issues
A big one would be allowing pervious concrete water system to count towards pervious
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8x18
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These are not pretty, but they are providing the vast majority of new supply.
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(this is not number of separate buildings, it's the number of TOTAL units inside those buildings)
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That fight has been happening for longer, at least in developments
Lower Merion, not exactly developer friendly, has allowed a % of required parking to be “compact cars” for well over a decade.
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here's a scale of the relative number of TOTAL units for each height
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And the other thing to keep in mind is that, obviously, the number of units built in each height is not the same
2-story buildings produce about 10% the total unit count of 3 or 4 stories
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The 3BR and 4BR units in the taller buildings are an illusion. Since this is Austin, those are ~all student housing units, rented by the bedroom, which just have very different floorplans.
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Personally I think it would be much better to put the kitchen on the bedroom wall
No natural light into the sleeping room, but better layouts
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Sure. DM me. Happy to share for that purpose
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For the 1960-1985?
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Where did all that extra square footage go? Look at the floorplan type
file:///Users/bobbyfijan/Downloads/GkBaLjOWAAApnZT.jpg
In 1960-1985, 50% of 2BR units were 2BR/2BA
In 2000-2025, 94% were 2BR/2BA or more!!!
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From 1960-1985, the average 2BR was 940sf. Only 5% of 2BR units were larger than 1200sf
In 2000-2025, the average new 2BR was 1125sf ... and 25%(!) of units were larger than 1200sf
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I think that since I’m only looking at floorplans of rental units, it’s frankly not coming up with a lot of single stair units
I’ll be able to pull the averages in a bit, but there are orders of magnitude more of the 4+ units per floor
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K. I can do that
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What year range should I isolate to?
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Wait no. I have floors. But I didn’t have it of data cleaned on whether it includes garage. So could be some messiness
I’ll run and check
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Reduce land values
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I can isolate for building height
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No, no, yes (relatively), no
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Damnit. I downloaded the wrong example.
yes this is a 2BR/BA (by DC definitions)
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Comment on topic, or piss off. I have no interest in my replies going that direction.
Housing, apartments and floorplans etc
You can talk about politics with anyone else
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Yes. That;s who it is designed for
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And if you think "Huh, did 2BR apartment sizes really decrease in 2011?"
Well, yes ... and no
What changed, is that DC started to build a TON of "shared light 2BR/1BA" units. Like this 750sf "2BR/1BA"
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@stephenjacobsmith.com
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How can that be? Well, even in larger units, like this 900sf unit ... they are catalogued as 2BR/1BA units.
Since DC is such a roommate heavy market, I'd argue that this cataloguing is the most "useful" toi tenants
(It is also not in violation of any specific rules)
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Even though the chart says that 10-15% of newly built apartments since 2011 have been "2BR/1BA" ... the average size of those units is 800sf, which is ~15% smaller than the average 2BR sizes in DC from 1950-1980
bsky.app/profile/bobb...
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[email protected] had asked about the dynamic in markets that were more permissive on "Dens" or "Windowless Bedrooms"
DC is by FAR the market with the greatest share of those units, and you can see that in this chart
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In some circumstances ... yes
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And also, this data comes from units/floorplans that were RENTED
So it is not everything that was built during the time period. But if someone built it, and rented it in the past 5 years, then it's here.
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Yes. 2/1's are nearly gone
bsky.app/profile/bobb...
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which means, roommates ... or at least designed for roommates
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It means larger overall units, and smaller living rooms