5 ms·

minneapolis got hit pretty hard.

• systemvoltage 4y ago
  > In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-was-once-a-byword-for-tattooed-vegan-microbrewers https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...
  • pedrosorio 4y ago
    The link has a paywall. Portland ranked third in what?
  • ProjectArcturis 4y ago
    Third in "desirability for property developers", as if that were some kind of important metric for a city.
    • Der_Einzige 4y ago
      It is. Portland went from shockingly massively increasing home prices to declining home prices in no small part due to this.
      • ProjectArcturis 4y ago
        Isn't it generally better to have affordable housing than shockingly massively increasing home prices?
        • QuarterReptile 4y ago
          Clearly not, in the context of this discussion. No city is better off by eviscerated its tax base.
        • allisdust 4y ago
          Only if anyone want to live there. Why would anyone want to purchase a house or live in a place how ever affordable it is, where a mob might burn their house down.
        • brailsafe 4y ago
          The way I read this is that the more desirable a city is to property devs, the lower the cost of housing, which seems true. Affordable housing = Less scarcity, less scarcity comes from building more