The future is dense, walkable cities.

[BrightShinyGirl]

With only an FM radio in my truck, I sometimes stop at NPR. Yesterday I heard a bit about the housing shortage: Biden said the solution is build, build, build. Uh, no. We don't need more of the cheap crap we already have, the huge houses that fall down in 10 years because they're made of green wood and styrofoam, the McMansions built at lower standards than old mobile homes.

How do we end the housing shortage without building more housing?

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Replacing floors and floors of offices with housing (and schools) will be needed to bring back cities
Dubai has such buildings. no?

Zoning laws in most of the USA probably won't allow for them. Same as how EPA and "vehicle safety" laws won't let us have those kick-ass little Kei trucks that are all over Southeast Asia. I can never buy a new truck like the '88 Ford Ranger I now own, because restrictions practically force the manufacture of larger and ironically more polluting models.

Fact check:

There is no bureaucracy that sets real estate prices.

The very concept of "zoning" was originally devised as a way for cartels of land speculators to keep land prices artificially high and to keep out poor residents from upper-class neighborhoods.

And also to keep out non-White residents, once upon a time. But of course the anti-renter and anti-density ordinances of today have nothing of that sort in mind any more. Of course.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Zoning laws in most of the USA probably won't allow for them.

Across the nation, loads of office buildings have been converted to apartments or condos. It’s a continuing trend.

 

[MajorRewrite]

With only an FM radio in my truck, I sometimes stop at NPR. Yesterday I heard a bit about the housing shortage: Biden said the solution is build, build, build. Uh, no. We don't need more of the cheap crap we already have, the huge houses that fall down in 10 years because they're made of green wood and styrofoam, the McMansions built at lower standards than old mobile homes.

You know nothing about construction, and as usual your take is moronic.

Congratulations on the consistency of your stupidity.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Across the nation, loads of office buildings have been converted to apartments or condos. It’s a continuing trend.

In Singapore and Dubai, a lot of the mega-skyscrapers are practically small, self-contained cities. You may well go to a job in the same building you sleep in, or one next door to it. You buy your groceries there too. Has problems, but it has benefits as well.

 

[MajorRewrite]

In Singapore and Dubai, a lot of the mega-skyscrapers are practically small, self-contained cities. You may well go to a job in the same building you sleep in, or one next door to it. You buy your groceries there too. Has problems, but it has benefits as well.

Mixed-use buildings are common in US downtowns, but a mix of office and residential is less common than a mix of retail and residential.

In the downtown of the smallish city where I live, there’s a former office building that was converted to a hotel on the lower floors and condos on the upper floors.

Another former office building has a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above.

The strong demand for downtown living has driven up the price of all the condos.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Interesting...

...haven't seen much of that in my city. Doing anything non-standard with property here is a total pain, I'm told.

Though it is semi-common in New England. Glad to hear that it's spreading.

 

[Chernosoth]

How do we end the housing shortage without building more housing?

By recognizing we don't have a housing shortage. We have a shortage of people admitting there's no future in where they live, the large suburban houses and skyscrapers that waste energy, and the suburban apartment blocks that may seem more efficient, but the residents still need cars.

Many practically designed midrise apartment and mixed use buildings and rowhouses have been demolished or abandoned so long they're teardowns, so there will be some rebuilding in many areas.

 

[wizzard426]

 

[MajorRewrite]

New York is a dySToPIan HEllHoLe. Happy first day of summer! Flip through the pics to see the true horror of the city.

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[dkovic77]

New York is a dySToPIan HEllHoLe. Happy first day of summer! Flip through the pics to see the true horror of the city.

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Oh it’s terrible, look at all those non-white people!

 

[MajorRewrite]

Grand boulevards would solve the housing crisis, Calthorpe says

Redeveloping commercial corridors, using policies like AB 2011 in California, enables new housing at a scale big enough to eliminate the housing shortage in the US without displacement.

It’s a smart idea. Add homes to commercial strips to create compact, walkable neighborhoods. Under-utilized land is just sitting there in the form of overly large parking lots and vacant retail properties.

And it doesn’t require big government investment. Change the zoning and developers will take it from there.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Urban American is carrying rural America on our backs.

 

[TrailerHitch]

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Urban American is carrying rural America on our backs.

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

 

[AlexBailey]

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

Say you can’t understand a chart without saying you can’t understand a chart.

 

[Chernosoth]

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Urban American is carrying rural America on our backs.

Much of that GDP is the same dollars counted many times as they are used in various financial schemes. And more is plain waste: disposable food and beverage containers, disposable holiday decorations, etc., that will become unaffordable as we lose the resources to make them.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

Enjoy it...with no food. You are the one who keeps pissing and whining about suburban and rural life. Honestly, we don't give a fuck what you do in your jungles called cities.

 

[Chernosoth]

Picking a fight with an opponent who is already falling down looks pointless. Cities generally have a future, but most of the USA's huge cities are goners for various reasons, starting with climate change with desertification and rising sea level on the west coast and rising sea level covering much more of the east coast. The cities that survive will be located where they have the resources to make what people need, including farm tools.

Recent developments in naval warfare may shut down global shipping before the ships completely run out of fuel. The Ukrainian technique of putting bombs on jet skis to sink Russian ships may eventually be done to any commercial ship anywhere, for piracy or terrorism. When jet skis and steel armor are both forgotten in the postindustrial world, pirate ships with ordinary cannons will be enough to sink wood sailing ships. The cities with the brightest futures are likely on the Great Lakes and a few big rivers: Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Picking a fight with an opponent who is already falling down looks pointless. Cities generally have a future, but most of the USA's huge cities are goners for various reasons, starting with climate change with desertification and rising sea level on the west coast and rising sea level covering much more of the east coast. The cities that survive will be located where they have the resources to make what people need, including farm tools.

Recent developments in naval warfare may shut down global shipping before the ships completely run out of fuel. The Ukrainian technique of putting bombs on jet skis to sink Russian ships may eventually be done to any commercial ship anywhere, for piracy or terrorism. When jet skis and steel armor are both forgotten in the postindustrial world, pirate ships with ordinary cannons will be enough to sink wood sailing ships. The cities with the brightest futures are likely on the Great Lakes and a few big rivers: Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Our reptilian alien overlords are going to stomp on cities like Godzilla.

 

[MajorRewrite]

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

That’s a bizarre comment, even for you.

Okay, maybe not for you. Are the voices in your head particularly loud today?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

I want dense housing and mass transit. I want the government to stop spending money to subsidize suburban sprawl.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Enjoy it...with no food. You are the one who keeps pissing and whining about suburban and rural life. Honestly, we don't give a fuck what you do in your jungles called cities.

I can walk to the market without worrying about being attacked by feral hogs.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I live in a nice house in the country. I don't want to be able to hear my neighbors farting.