jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoAfter decades of inaction, states are finally stepping up on housingwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down15
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minus-squaredogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIt’s almost like there’s a gigantic difference between building new housing in a city that has water on 2 sides, a mountain on the 3rd, is hilly as fuck, and looks like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tripsavvy.com%2Fthmb%2FcDzV0BmLpYR9pvR2fM4WyJBGlfs%3D%2F2121x1414%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale()%3Amax_bytes(150000)%3Astrip_icc()%2Fcolumbus-ave-downtown-san-francisco-aerial-538152367-58460a475f9b5851e5e8e767.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=40220336d594426b1951f443a0803c0edbae4bf26b20180063d42a59bfa3c822&ipo=images Versus a completely flat city with open scrub-land on 4 sides that looks like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fphotohome.com%2Fpictures%2Ftexas-pictures%2Faustin%2Fdowntown-austin-1a.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=59082578a907c28cc53849c4638464ef282fe68eb7b754bda3287bbb07364464&ipo=images San Francisco has a density of 18,000 people per square mile, while Austin has a density of 3,000 per sqmi. There isn’t room to build new stuff, so they just convert old stuff into more expensive new stuff.
It’s almost like there’s a gigantic difference between building new housing in a city that has water on 2 sides, a mountain on the 3rd, is hilly as fuck, and looks like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tripsavvy.com%2Fthmb%2FcDzV0BmLpYR9pvR2fM4WyJBGlfs%3D%2F2121x1414%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale()%3Amax_bytes(150000)%3Astrip_icc()%2Fcolumbus-ave-downtown-san-francisco-aerial-538152367-58460a475f9b5851e5e8e767.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=40220336d594426b1951f443a0803c0edbae4bf26b20180063d42a59bfa3c822&ipo=images
Versus a completely flat city with open scrub-land on 4 sides that looks like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fphotohome.com%2Fpictures%2Ftexas-pictures%2Faustin%2Fdowntown-austin-1a.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=59082578a907c28cc53849c4638464ef282fe68eb7b754bda3287bbb07364464&ipo=images
San Francisco has a density of 18,000 people per square mile, while Austin has a density of 3,000 per sqmi. There isn’t room to build new stuff, so they just convert old stuff into more expensive new stuff.