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So tearing down existing extremely expensive houses and building new, even more expensive taller homes is the solution for the homeless? This is wrong on so man
by cudgy 4y ago
So tearing down existing extremely expensive houses and building new, even more expensive taller homes is the solution for the homeless? This is wrong on so many levels and would result in the continuation of homelessness and could eventually lead to people / voters feeling there is no solution at all.
- mywittyname 4y agoYes. You're not seeing the full picture because you're not looking at the problem long-term. The cheap housing of today is the expensive stuff built 30-40 years ago that has depreciated. I drive by mansions built in the early 1900s that have become apartments for college students. Houses depreciate as tastes in style and location shift over the years. I've walked through ghettos where the buildings have beautiful Italianate brick work that probably cost a fortune to build new. In 30 years, those trendy apartment buildings you see popping up all over will be subsidized housing.
- woah 4y agoBuilding taller (we're talking 5 stories, not 100) apartment buildings results in more apartments on the same land. It's not rocket science.