re: Is the "housing shortage" overblown?

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I don’t live in Louisiana, but this idea of urban decay is the exact opposite of what’s happened in Tennessee. 20 years ago downtown Nashville was basically half of what it is now. Downtown Knoxville was almost dead. Areas like East Nashville were dangerous and North Knoxville had very few businesses. Now both downtowns are busy and growing. East Nashville and North Knoxville are filled with millennial homeowners, breweries, and good restaurants. Cities here aren’t decaying, they are thriving

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80 something percent if not 90 something percent of southern cities and the city center and surrounding areas is night-and-day safer and nicer and more vibrant than it was 30 years ago. Frigging Macon Georgia of all places has loft apartments downtown and overpriced housing. Janky-arse Augusta and Columbus too.

Where this whole "big cities used to be really nice but now they're shite holes" narrative is coming fron is beyond me.

Midtown Atlanta and downtown Atlanta were not places where you wanted to be after dark in the 1980s.