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How are you sure these costs return to the communities? These towns have fewer than 1,000 residents. It's likely that builders would have to drive in from far a
by carabiner 4y ago
How are you sure these costs return to the communities? These towns have fewer than 1,000 residents. It's likely that builders would have to drive in from far away, trucking in materials from the largest metro area. Workers would have to drive 1-3 hours home, requiring higher pay, or you'd need housing onsite, both adding to costs. This is a lot of building all at once that they don't normally endure. You need outsiders.
- thaumaturgy 4y agoI used "local economies" in an unclear, fuzzy way. I was just pointing out that the money doesn't just vaporize into the atmosphere, it buys gas and building materials and pays for wages and construction equipment and lots and lots of other things, and it's "local" in the sense that much of it isn't going to another country. It would be better if that money were being spent on affordable new housing development that wasn't just replacing low-income small communities, but it's still weird to talk about it as though it's a billion dollars in a winged suitcase that is set free to live its best life in some untamed wilderness, not a single Jackson of which will ever again grace a wallet.