Alex
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Alex
@DeepDishhhLover
Mostly on here for Chicago sports and housing policy
Chicago // DFW Katılım Ekim 2018
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@KenjiCapital Who owns Safeway? Albertsons. Who owns Albertsons? Private Equity behemoths, Cerberus Capital Management, The Vanguard Group and BlackRock. They're not interested in housing anyone that "needs" housing. Nothing wrong with them building it. But, we changed laws to help them do it.
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Imagine living above a Safeway...
…two blocks from Ocean Beach.
Dream location for a lot of people (Maybe a little too cold for me though 😂).
Here's the proposal for the Outer Richmond Safeway in SF. Latest plans would transform a 3.3-acre site into:
• 562 apartments
• 112 affordable homes
• A brand new Safeway
• Retail space
• Courtyards, playgrounds, and outdoor amenities
I love these grocery store type developments because they're usually in walkable neighborhoods, with existing retail, and transit access.
And in this case, you're also steps from one of the most beautiful coastlines in CA.
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@CaseyJonas49853 @BumperCrop1 And also I grew up in exurban Dallas! Went to a school with 10 kids in my grade, I agree it sucked, but it’s still a million times better than growing up in a mud hut. Perspective is important.
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@CaseyJonas49853 @BumperCrop1 There was no comparison mentioned between rural and urban? The point of the post is that rural to rural comparison is 100x more relevant for a more apt comparison of living standards between two countries than urban to urban.
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Con respeto, disiento.
Habiendo recorrido >200.000 km por el interior de EEUU dde 1999, donde más difiere la vida e/ese país y A.Latina es justamente en las zonas rurales, que sí son de 1er mundo.
Ésta es x ej una escuela pública de un pueblo de 4.000 hab:
Tartu@TartuTV
Es de los placeres más lindos manejar y manejar recorriendo USA. Ya lo dijo Baudrillard en America. Si haces muchos km te das cuenta q es tan pobre como Latinoamerica mechado con bolsones de prosperidad. Es Tercer Mundo con cinturones Gucci.
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Meanwhile in Texas, these are high school football stadiums
The European mind cannot comprehend this
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We don’t know if @JMilei plan will work or not but Buenos Aires is certainly a beautiful city which richly merits a renaissance
The Telegraph@Telegraph
As Javier Milei swings his reform chainsaw through Argentina, his hope is that foreign investors and executives will flock to his freshly deregulated economy. Our reporters break down Mileil's 'radical technofuturism' approach ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@BumperCrop1 I went to a school like this in one of these towns, only smaller. There were almost zero academic or extracurricular opportunities besides the bare minimum required by law. You spend your whole childhood with the same 20-50 kids. It was mostly hell.
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@bibliographing @StuLoren *10% year to year increase I mean. At least that’s what I saw working on RE projects in FL, 25% for commercial.
Allows for some sense of a circuit breaker while avoiding the long run mess that CA has dug itself into.
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@bibliographing @StuLoren I only bring yuppies up because they are probably the biggest net fiscal contributors in an urban economy who also get shafted by this policy. The idea of extremely low property tax caps is wholly unsustainable and detrimental (not that I’m opposed to like a 10% cap or something)
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Look, our property taxes are too high- largely due to unsustainable pensions which are like throwing money into a black hole. But this idea is insane. You still need to pay for local government. Capping tax at 1% of purchase price would turn us into an immobile CA housing market.
It would particularly screw younger families seeking first time housing at expense of older homeowners.
Darren Bailey@DarrenBaileyIL
The biggest critics of a 1% property tax cap on price you paid for your home aren't worried about families. They're worried government might have to prioritize its spending. Good. That's exactly the point.
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@bibliographing @StuLoren I don’t think this really adequately captures the other taxes a working age couple is contributing to the local economy vs an older homeowner who is just living off retirement and is using up large amounts of healthcare subsidies later on in life.
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@DeepDishhhLover @StuLoren Well, no, because (a) most property taxpayers don’t use schools and (b) most people who do aren’t paying enough. If you have one kid in school and are paying less than $20k total/$10k to CPS, you’re a net fiscal drain.
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@brianonhere I mean it’s better for well off earners looking to buy (which is good) but it’s occurring at the detriment of renters (which is not good). I would be less annoyed if your whole schtick wasn’t making shitty bad faith arguments.
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@DeepDishhhLover Isn’t increasing the supply of for sale housing lowering the price of it so it’s more accessible for potential homeowners. Isn’t supply and demand beep boop econ 101 graph your guys entire deal lol
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Two good things, sounds like rent stabilization works great
Jonathan Robinson@jon_m_rob
New paper on the first US statewide rent stabilization law (OR's SB608). Finds that rent stabilization reduces moves by 11–27% & reduces rental supply via condo conversion by 5–6% in covered buildings, even w/ quite permissive rent caps (7% + CPI).
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@ChicagoAlek Tbf, it is very stupid lol.
Don’t mind it in Humboldt but it’s extra annoying when it goes on downtown during Mexican Independence Day (and I say this as a Mexican American who lives downtown).
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@brianonhere Sure but not every renter has the down payment saved up to buy. The housing is actively becoming less affordable by virtue of it being converted to for-sale
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@DeepDishhhLover The buildings are not being destroyed someone still lives in them
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@DeepDishhhLover @pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge I don’t care what you guys do in Dallas and Chicago at all
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Given how rare large swaths of flat land are to come by on the California Coast and how dire the state is in need of housing its surprising to me that Marin County hasn't been developed more its only got 254K people!
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@RexStructorum @pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge “Urban growth boundaries, a tool mainly propagated by degrowther socialists, are good actually”
- An even bigger retard
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@DeepDishhhLover @pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge “Capitalism means that the citizens of a community or nation can’t form a corporation (called a government) to hold and manage assets in common trust.”
—A Retard
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@RexStructorum @pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge Unless you’re willing to give up your house back to nature you’re all talk
Mars Subdirectorate of Jinns@RexStructorum
@pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge Nope. I like seeing nothing but coastline in every direction for miles. The drive alone is worth more than 10 million Chinese and Indian tech workers
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@pkwlpkwl @hopes_revenge Once we sell and develop it, there is no getting it back without effectively committing “war crimes”
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@96Henrique @JDabknee The cop candidate is not gonna win
Atp I'm guessing Alexi has the best chance, but it's still pretty far out
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@joeykatzen @rumeursduweb But again . . . this goes to the point that even young Americans will not sleep in places that Europeans would, even it means traveling on fewer occasions.
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Legit a Hampton Inn off a freeway exit in rural Georgia would be a 4* hotel in the European grading system.
I’ve always wondered about this.
ashley ray@theashleyray
europeans are willing to sleep places americans would not consider
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