Jake Gotta

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

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Truly an elite poaster

I assume that getting steak and lobster dinners with 20,000 calories of appetizers for your whole family delivered by personal chauffeur is inexpensive again now that Uncle Joe Brandon is out of the White House at least

Yeah there are other city amenities (sports, cool restaurants and bars, etc) that drive people to live city adjacent even if they don’t want to or can’t afford to live in the city

And with that distance comes a soul-crushing, time-wasting, wallet-burning commute

That’s why there all empty, because nobody wants to live there 🙄

One more design review panel bro. I swear, just one more design review panel.

The affordability / union labor requirements in the bills legalizing such a mixed use development are almost certainly the single largest impediment

Baltimore and Vegas aren’t exactly the nation’s Crown Jewels

People will go on this app and say anything. “Apple pie is mid.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true

Ditto for all the other listed cities !

you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive

Conditions in places that make up a disproportionate share of the national economy *are* in fact more important. That’s where people are much more likely to want to move!

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.

That’s right

But have you considered the point, “no it doesn’t”

Yes. The purpose of a system is what it does.

The list is a list of cities with the least affordable housing relative to the size of population just itching to move in

(Laughs from San Diego in November)

I mean yeah if you’re a vampire and don’t need sun

No ask @mateosfo.bsky.social

We made it illegal to build neighborhoods like this and wonder why people don’t like the look of new apartment buildings

What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?

And many people who moved from an exurb to a suburb are similarly disappointed with how little space they get for their dollar

Yeah, that would indicate that many people moved from a city to a suburb hoping for more space are disappointed to learn they don’t get that much more space for their dollar

Yeah have you seen the Texas exurbs ?

or my great grand parents, or my parents again (despite the housing costs) or the dozens of young people i know who moved from across the country to he in film and TV.

LA's founding myth: "Where any office boy or young mechanic, can be all panic, with just a good looking pan."