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Whitewater enthusiast 🌊🛶 Market rate and social housing are both good as long as there is cross ventilation 🏗️🏢
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How did you overcome this type of response?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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'residents may not have a choice in the matter' ❤️
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I think I'm remembering what people who make this type of argument believe. You think that Blackrock or something is buying up all the houses and letting them sit empty just to create a bubble, and at some point they will sell? Something like that?
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No I'm actually not sure what your point is. My point is that tens of millions of people are paying excessively high rent and locked out of owning a home because there's not enough houses in the places where people want to live.
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Let me play out your Occam's razor scenario, and tell me what I've missed. Currently there are high prices and a low vacancy rate in NYC, indicating that supply is not meeting demand for housing. Now you have the govt cap rents. Now there's still not enough housing, right?
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That statistic does not support your conclusion. For instance, there is a geographic mismatch between housing supply and need. Vacant homes often are not suitable for the people who need housing. Homeless people are a small fraction of the population that is impacted by the high housing prices.
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That's probably the number one reason, but I could also see an echo of the fight against the BART line to Marin where a big factor was fear of what type of people from Oakland might show up if a connection was built.
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This is a parody of itself, these white-haired, slightly angry looking people giving their public comment that simply says 'NO BUILD'. That's the start and the end of the thought process for them.
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How have grass and trees fared, overall, under the car centric development paradigm?
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This policy brief highlights 20+ newer single stair projects in Seattle
www.mercatus.org/research/pol...
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2k extra for Autochef compatibility
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Seattle has the second largest overhead electrical trollybus system in the US behind San Francisco. My guess is that they are using EV to expand electrical service because King county and most of Seattle does not have the population density to justify installing overhead lines.
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At this point we'll be lucky if the EV fleet isn't cancelled entirely
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FAR is floor area ratio, meaning the ratio of floorspace to lot size. Higher FAR allows developers to pack more units in which may encourage development but the way that they do that with the double loaded corridors makes for units w bad layouts and little natural ventilation and light.
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I might not have known what to look for but what I saw there was a lot of single family, some nice older apartments, and more recently built luxury high rises, 5 over 1 apartment blocks, and townhouses.
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People always mention single stair being legal in Seattle but I was there for 10 years and never noticed many interesting buildings of this style. Is that just due to other zoning restrictions?
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Dems will give them what they want as long as Musk signals that he is willing to negotiate in good faith on DOGE.
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It really is that simple
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The city is full of them
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*freedom gas
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You can't let them get away with this
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A paper like this could build credibility on straight local news coverage and then spend it on national coverage that makes issues that are good for Dems more salient. DNC is too compromised to pull this off though and it's hard to find a billionaire willing to pay for pro-worker news coverage.
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Still, Wray should have made him do it.
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The aesthetics of slender 5+ story single stair buildings are way better than the typical mega block midsize apartment building.
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Bad idea, doctors need oversight just like everyone else. If you can't reform medical then go after pharma. Govt could produce generic drugs. Shorten pharm patent lengths. Medicare Part D for all.
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Could be, Trump is very annoying because to some degree he is connecting w real justified anger people have about stuff, but his solutions are mostly worse than the original problem.
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Slim residential zoning
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I think we've learned that both the identity politics of the left and the defence of the status-quo offered by moderate Dems is not popular. Imo the successful hybrid of the two will be a sort of deracialized populism centered on mostly progressive economic priorities.
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Doctors will just do a surgery 1000 times without any data on whether it improves outcomes over no surgery.
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Great ticketing opportunity
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Please explain the easy process by which we could reduce the demand for housing in cities.