lol amazing

I call shaft this time! I’m tired of minding the stepchildren. There’s no glory in working the balls.

No, cities and municipalities not passing residency requirements and laws dictating that all new construction needs to have the correct balance between affordable and market rate units caused this. There are places for people to live if you have enough money, and there are tons of units that sit empty most of the year.

Right but specific neighborhoods might not be able to accommodate. Micro/macro.

A quickly as possible implies that is needs to be rushed. There’s a process that from start to finish usually takes a few years. If you put 500 units of housing in a neighborhood without access to mass transit, with overburdened schools, or where the zoning won’t allow for commercial growth, then you did a bad job. If…

You know, I kinda thought that when you posted it but didn’t say anything.

No. It has more to do with access to public transit, education, if the neighborhood is in a food desert, etc… I could give to fucks about people’s perception of affordable housing. But if you put 500 units in a neighborhood that isn’t zoned for mix use, there’s no access to mass transit and the schools are already…

Right, but not every neighborhood can sustain growth. Its a macro/micro difference. Sure, the Bay in general can take the growth. But if you don’t have the right public transportation, access to food and education… You erode the quality of life for everyone who lives or is going to live in that specific neighborhood.

Thanks. I try to get around.

do you mean affordable housing, as in rentals? or as in places for people to buy into the “american dream”?

I’d like to know how removing Trump is the issue that “many of us have been seeking for decades”. You are either remarkably clairvoyant and inept, or you are moving your goalposts.

That’s what scares me the most… But its so obvious it can’t be realistic. The FBI, Mueller and the DOJ has to have thought of that. There has to be a contingency plan in place for that.

If you build affordable housing too big, you get a lot of crime and you cut the community off from public and green space. Resident health and mobility is adversely affected. Its a great idea, but it never works out well.

Vancouver too I believe.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

lol well you’re talking about ALL the problems, and I’m thinking about just the one!

That means some wealthier people will have to pay more to live in the same places as poorer people - and that’s somewhat unpopular with people in power. But it works.

Yes. I agree. And thinking that a city should “seriously build hundreds of thousands of new units of housing as quickly as possible” is what I would call “throwing up housing for the sake of throwing up housing.”

I agree, and I have definitely fallen hard for a few theories that never panned out.

Me too.