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Cities are expensive for everyone. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to frictionlessly relocate. There's a reason lots of people live where they do. Tel

Cities are expensive for everyone. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to frictionlessly relocate. There's a reason lots of people live where they do. Telling people to "just move" is not a real solution.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
Telling people its hopeless is actually not a solution at all. And those people 'just moved' to NYC after all.
- wcummings 10y ago
  City projects take decades to take shape. It's not hopeless, it just takes time and political will. There are people advocating for greater zoning capacity, streamlined permitting processes and investment in mass transit, among other things. >And those people 'just moved' to NYC after all. When the rich get priced out of downtown, they don't move to KC. They move to cheaper areas outside of downtown and drive up prices for lower-income people living there. When four young professionals pile into an old single family home because there aren't enough apartments, that drives up prices for families who have one or two sources of income, not four. This affects everyone who lives in a city, not just wealthy transplants. Yuppies are not the ones being displaced. The solution is a steady increased supply of market-rate housing.
  - davidf18 10y ago
    > "The solution is a steady increased supply of market-rate housing." Politically induced zoning density restrictions which benefit landholders over tenants and those who wish to buy housing should be reversed and then allow markets to create more housing. The cost of the high cost of housing is for this reason -- a market failure called "rent seeking." Fix the market inefficiency, -- the market failure -- and everyone but landholders benefit.
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MadManE 10y ago
There is a huge gap between "not frictionless" and "impossible". Sometimes, people have to make hard choices. The reality is that if you want to live in a trendy/convenient/nice part of a major city, then you will have to pay for it, because EVERYONE wants to live there. Sometimes, you just can't have everything you want.
- wcummings 10y ago
  It's not just the trendy parts. Eventually even nearby suburbs become very expensive. Yuppies are not moving to KC, they're pushing the poorest city residents further and further away from the city. It's fantasy to think it's the relatively well-off who will have to move, or that the poor people who are being displaced have that much mobility. Just look at all the people trapped in economically depressed rural areas, why don't they all "just move"? Lots of Americans have literally no savings and very little job mobility and moving a long distance is pretty much impossible.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago

Telling people its hopeless is actually not a solution at all. And those people 'just moved' to NYC after all.

wcummings 10y ago
City projects take decades to take shape. It's not hopeless, it just takes time and political will. There are people advocating for greater zoning capacity, streamlined permitting processes and investment in mass transit, among other things. >And those people 'just moved' to NYC after all. When the rich get priced out of downtown, they don't move to KC. They move to cheaper areas outside of downtown and drive up prices for lower-income people living there. When four young professionals pile into an old single family home because there aren't enough apartments, that drives up prices for families who have one or two sources of income, not four. This affects everyone who lives in a city, not just wealthy transplants. Yuppies are not the ones being displaced. The solution is a steady increased supply of market-rate housing.
- davidf18 10y ago
  > "The solution is a steady increased supply of market-rate housing." Politically induced zoning density restrictions which benefit landholders over tenants and those who wish to buy housing should be reversed and then allow markets to create more housing. The cost of the high cost of housing is for this reason -- a market failure called "rent seeking." Fix the market inefficiency, -- the market failure -- and everyone but landholders benefit.
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MadManE 10y ago

There is a huge gap between "not frictionless" and "impossible". Sometimes, people have to make hard choices. The reality is that if you want to live in a trendy/convenient/nice part of a major city, then you will have to pay for it, because EVERYONE wants to live there. Sometimes, you just can't have everything you want.

wcummings 10y ago
It's not just the trendy parts. Eventually even nearby suburbs become very expensive. Yuppies are not moving to KC, they're pushing the poorest city residents further and further away from the city. It's fantasy to think it's the relatively well-off who will have to move, or that the poor people who are being displaced have that much mobility. Just look at all the people trapped in economically depressed rural areas, why don't they all "just move"? Lots of Americans have literally no savings and very little job mobility and moving a long distance is pretty much impossible.