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“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of
by audibahnbacks 3y ago
“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in (but still not buy a house in). I guess it’s okay if we keep making everything nicer for the elites and worse for everyone else?
I see the property deeds of the rundown apartments and tenement housing in my neighborhood. They are invariably owned by rich individuals and investment groups from far away in very upper class exclusive areas. I never see these owners do even the slightest gardening, sidewalk improvements, they won’t even fix the basic items of heat, water, building codes that they are legally required to do. Instead, they use their outsized slumlord profits to buy and remodel their own multi-multi-million dollar properties and leave the rest of us to rot.
Forgive me if I’m less than enthusiastic to cheer on the rich improving their neighborhoods and ignoring the rest of us.
- somsak2 3y agoHow is this making anything "worse for everyone else?" What are you doing to make "Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in" better?
- nerdbert 3y agoSo nobody can do anything nice unless they first do something nice in the place you're the most interested in?
- more_corn 3y agoInstructions are included. Go to town.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoNew trends tend to follow an S-curve of adoption and rich people tend to be the ones financing the leading edge of that adoption before it's "popular," when it's still hella expensive and the bugs have not yet been worked out. I, for one, welcome this type of "bad behavior" by rich people. It might eventually trickle down to neighborhoods you can afford, assuming it starts somewhere and that somewhere will probably be with the folks most able to afford to take a risk and to indulge their whimsy. Generally speaking.
- quickthrower2 3y agoS-curves? This is just landscaping right?
- stephencanon 3y agoI did some gardening in every cheap apartment I lived in as a broke grad student in the East Bay. Yeah, landlords aren’t going to do it for you, but that doesn’t have to stop you. Planting a small garden can be pretty cheap and is a huge improvement to the experience of living in most rentals, even if you’re only there for a year or two. Even got a couple of my landlords to let me deduct material costs from rent.