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Wow, so it's catering to parking and cars that makes the city worse, not just the mere existence of taller buildings? Shocker.

Tourists are gonna wanna take "Rocky steps" pictures. That's fine and dandy. I figured the point of putting the statue at the bottom was to attract some of them to take the picture there and be more out of the way?

If NYC never built a new tall apartment building again, would rent go up or down over time as existing NYers have children? As people move there for work or to be with family? What happens when population grows and no new apartments get built? Is that predictable rent increase NOT gentrification?

In addition to the lived experience of people priced out of homes in California, you can just look at any chart comparing rents in peer cities that build dense housing and peer cities that don't. The trends are obvious - building tall lowers median rent, *even if the new places are expensive*.

Why are you denying the lived experience of my SF-born friends that have been priced out of their home, not by condo towers, but by a refusal to build dense housing at all? SF very famously refuses to build tall and, in exchange, is the only other place as expensive as Manhattan.

I hope your strategy includes building more homes in walkable areas served by public transit. Every other option is a marginal or band-aid solution that kicks the problem down the line.

Ew. Don't do this.

As a city boy it is very much my thing. I used to live in an apartment building with a ground level coffee shop and it was dope.

Underpants gnome logic, every time

cancelled this and it felt good

I don't like this article's unspoken assumption that building preservation is an inherent virtue regardless of the significance or use of the building in question, but it seems sensible to not knock down functional buildings until there's an actual plan for something new.

Warcrab!

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer

CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Surely the way to handle this is to honor all current union contracts but phase in a new system where new hires are something besides a conductor? Change one line at a time?

I want you to be correct but I don't think you are. In my experience people's brains turn off the second it is understood that a "developer" will make a profit by building something, no matter what it is. People will even scaremonger about affordable senior housing with this line of attack.

I do the same with housing. Do I "trust" developers? Not inherently, no. Do I realize that it's good when they build stuff that is a net positive for the city, like walkable density served by transit? Yes. That stuff is good whether the state builds it or not.

I keep these two thoughts in my head at once: (1) vaccines are a medical miracle and (2) big pharma is motivated by profit. I can be suspicious of big pharma and also know that vaccines save lives whether they are manufactured by the government or by P&G.

The uphill battle is convincing people that it's ok if someone makes a profit by building things we need, like dense housing in places served by transit. I prefer if the state builds the housing but I understand that it's not bad when the private market builds good stuff.

I personally think it's more important to house people and support social services than it is to maximally punish people who privately finance home construction but I guess it's not very radical of me to value housing the homeless over """sticking it to the man"""

It's never been a secret that chemo is in many ways "bad for you", but the whole point is that it's even worse for the cancerous cells specifically than it is for you overall. Literally everything in medicine is risk vs. reward. Chemo is no different.

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

Psychology research shows that left-of-center voters are broadly supportive of YIMBY policies until they are reminded that new buildings are designed and constructed by people with the job title of "developer".

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship.

She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

She's giving every indication of running for either Senate or President.

She's clearly eyeing a run for higher office. We're not done with her.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Areas further from downtown or a major transit line are gonna stay sleepier. That's always how it works. Some smaller apartment buildings will probably crop up and we won't notice them but they will be a more helpful part of the housing ecosystem than a SFH would have been.

Would you really expect a medium-sized metro with slow population growth to be radically transformed in 8 short years?

The areas right around Green Line stations have changed pretty quickly. Northeast near downtown is popping, too. That infill development is great and a logical first step.

Legalize single-stair apartments so more families can live near downtown!