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Can cities ever actually fix their housing shortage?
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:43 pm
Seems that loud activists always call for more population density and more housing options in cities. But none of the actual residents already there - especially the local politicians who control permits - have any interest in having more low income people in their neighborhoods.
Any area in which they put up a bunch of inexpensive apartment complexes immediately turns to a crime-ridden shithole that no one actually wants to live in.
Is there any actual way to fix this or is this just how life is now with increased population?
Any area in which they put up a bunch of inexpensive apartment complexes immediately turns to a crime-ridden shithole that no one actually wants to live in.
Is there any actual way to fix this or is this just how life is now with increased population?
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Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:45 pm to Thundercles
Banking section 8 would go a long way. Make nice apartments in towns you don’t need a car in would go a long way.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:46 pm to Thundercles
Yes, but no one wants to do it because they'd be afraid to be called racist.
Go start cracking skulls in ghettos and make those areas safer for everyone to live, and the housing shortage goes away on its own. We don't have a housing shortage. We have a shortage of liveable areas. Imagine if places like the south side of Chicago were a legitimate option for a young, white family just starting out on their own. There are plenty of starter homes there but people shouldn't have to worry about dodging gunfire walking to the mailbox.
Go start cracking skulls in ghettos and make those areas safer for everyone to live, and the housing shortage goes away on its own. We don't have a housing shortage. We have a shortage of liveable areas. Imagine if places like the south side of Chicago were a legitimate option for a young, white family just starting out on their own. There are plenty of starter homes there but people shouldn't have to worry about dodging gunfire walking to the mailbox.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:47 pm to Thundercles
You mean nimby arse democrats that say they’re all for these progressive things like multi family homes, government subsidized apartment complexes, second chance homes, and recovery complexes don’t want to actually live next to them?
I know I can find my shocked face around here somewhere
I know I can find my shocked face around here somewhere
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:49 pm to Thundercles
It’s how it’s always been. Having safe, affordable housing is the reason the suburbs came to be after the highway system was installled.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:50 pm to Thundercles
Yes
The problem is Karens crying about property values. People need to learn that we arent guaranteed to make money off our residential real estate.
Tell Karen to frick herself, built the shite out of small, affordable housing.
The problem is Karens crying about property values. People need to learn that we arent guaranteed to make money off our residential real estate.
Tell Karen to frick herself, built the shite out of small, affordable housing.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:50 pm to Thundercles
Billions of dollars being spent.
Average cost of a one bedroom apartment for a vagrant is $700K to $1M per vagrant.
That judge totally fricked us over.
More and more people come here from other states because we pay out the most.
Cities are buying hotels/motels and housing them there.
They trash the rooms and the owners send the city a bill for repairs.
Rinse, repeat.
Average cost of a one bedroom apartment for a vagrant is $700K to $1M per vagrant.
That judge totally fricked us over.
More and more people come here from other states because we pay out the most.
Cities are buying hotels/motels and housing them there.
They trash the rooms and the owners send the city a bill for repairs.
Rinse, repeat.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:52 pm to Thundercles
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Any area in which they put up a bunch of inexpensive apartment complexes immediately turns to a crime-ridden shithole that no one actually wants to live in.
Well, the option is to let them camp on streets. I say build housing, let chips fall where they amy.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:54 pm to Thundercles
The term “housing shortage” is stupid. There is plenty enough housing. And there is plenty enough “good housing.” They determine “housing shortage” based on an arbitrary term “affordable housing.”
The big problem is that people don’t live within their means. 2 people who make a combined $75k a year shouldn’t be buying houses. They should live in apartments or a rental. It is what it is.
And now you have 25 year olds that think a starter should be minimum 2500 square feet. It’s ridiculous.
The big problem is that people don’t live within their means. 2 people who make a combined $75k a year shouldn’t be buying houses. They should live in apartments or a rental. It is what it is.
And now you have 25 year olds that think a starter should be minimum 2500 square feet. It’s ridiculous.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:55 pm to Thundercles
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Is there any actual way to fix this or is this just how life is now with increased population?
There is a massive housing issue in Boston. The state is now incentivizing owners of commercial properties to convert them to residential now that so many people work from home.
I’m not saying that alone solves the problem but it’s a good step.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:07 pm to Thundercles
First you need to get rid of the illegals. They're taking up housing, even if it is cheap apartments or trailers.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:37 pm to Thundercles
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Can cities ever actually fix their housing shortage?
Yes, by utilizing living pods.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:50 pm to Thundercles
It would be a decrease in population if they weren't jamming illegals up our asses.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:51 pm to Thundercles
More suburban sprawl is what's needed. Part of the reason that the government is importing so many immigrants is that we have low birth rates. We need affluent suburbs with room to actually grow families instead of packing everyone into tiny apartments in the inner cities.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:55 pm to Thundercles
People who own houses now want higher property values and fight to keep anything that may affect their increasing values.
People who don’t own houses now complain like a disgruntled school teacher that there is no affordable housing and that there is a shortage.
No different than the rich wanting lower taxes and the poor wanting to tax the rich.
It’s always been this way and it always will be.
People who don’t own houses now complain like a disgruntled school teacher that there is no affordable housing and that there is a shortage.
No different than the rich wanting lower taxes and the poor wanting to tax the rich.
It’s always been this way and it always will be.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:56 pm to Thundercles
Maybe they can make all the homeless people live in the politicians’ houses as roommates until the politicians figure out a way to make them stop living on the streets and building big nasty homeless encampments.
Stop allowing the homelessness problem to persist and blaming it all on “systemic racism and injustice”.
Stop allowing the homelessness problem to persist and blaming it all on “systemic racism and injustice”.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 2:59 pm to Thundercles
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Is there any actual way to fix this or is this just how life is now with increased population?
We've had American slums since before there was a United States. Even when we had more room than we actually knew or could really dream about to stretch our legs we piled people on top of each other. It just is what it is with a city population.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 4:05 pm to Thundercles
yes deport all people with a 500 credit score deported to Haiti gentrify the city where the poors lived
Posted on 5/10/24 at 5:31 pm to Thundercles
Yes they can...
1st, you allow for Fentanyl to pour into the cities and then allow for drug users to inject the shite everyday in broad daylight without any of them getting in trouble.
2nd, you allow all of the Fentanyl users to overdose on the drugs so that it kills them all.
3rd, you rinse and repeat this until the very poor pollution has been cleansed leaving room for only rich people who can afford the houses.
1st, you allow for Fentanyl to pour into the cities and then allow for drug users to inject the shite everyday in broad daylight without any of them getting in trouble.
2nd, you allow all of the Fentanyl users to overdose on the drugs so that it kills them all.
3rd, you rinse and repeat this until the very poor pollution has been cleansed leaving room for only rich people who can afford the houses.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 5:52 pm to Thundercles
Reopen factories in the US in the smaller towns that are mainly abandoned. How many towns dried up after NAFTA? Plenty of housing near the old fruit of the loom factories in Louisiana. Same with the small textile and furniture factory towns in North Carolina. That would pull immigrants away from the city and open up housing options.
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