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I'm genuinely curious how the supply of housing in Manhattan could be increased.
by DaiPlusPlus 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious how the supply of housing in Manhattan could be increased.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoThe standard way is to build more. Another option is improving commutes from the outer boroughs and New Jersey - the Bronx has many affordable areas, but the 456 is a shitshow, and I'd rather move back to Texas than put up with the slow peristalsis that would become my commute. Buses aren't great, either, and suffer from a lot of the same problems that regular street traffic does. My coworkers who come from Jersey typically have a bus ride of an hour, assuming there aren't any traffic problems.
- acchow 10y agoGrow vertically. I saw this regularly when I was living in Hong Kong - 50 year old 5-15 story apartment buildings being bought out by developers, demolished, and replaced with something 30-40 stories tall. High speed rail into the city (see tokyo). You can travel enormous distances in 40 minutes on HSR.
- davidf18 10y agoReplacing 4 story Brownstones with high-rise apartments. Simply removing the politically induced scarcity of zoning density restrictions would achieve that or something similar. See my earlier comment to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940272