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Which is true of every major city. NY and SF would be great if they would address the cost of housing; no chance in hell of that happening, as far as I can see.
by SwellJoe 10y ago
Which is true of every major city. NY and SF would be great if they would address the cost of housing; no chance in hell of that happening, as far as I can see. Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Dallas also have the car culture problem on a massive scale but don't have the benefits Houston has (that whole lack of zoning thing leading to some potentially great neighborhoods).
At some point, we're all going to have to agree that cars are trying to kill us and take the necessary steps to resolve that problem. The cities that figure it out first will be the next great American cities, I would guess.
- bradleyjg 10y agoNYC has affordable housing. Manhattan increasingly doesn't, but so what? We have plenty of transit options from the other boros to Manhattan. NYC's biggest current problem isn't affordable housing, it is that transit capital projects are grotesquely expensive because of a combination of: diffusion of political responsibility, a broken bidding process, and very strong construction unions. What we have is great, but without the ability to undertake new projects, including rehabilitation, without spending much more time and money than any other city in the world, it will eventually be a big problem.
- SwellJoe 10y agoWhen did that happen? I tend to check housing prices when I pass through cities I really like, and the only reasonably priced housing (compared to almost every other major city, except in California) I found back in ~2011 was in Long Island.