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Have heard of data disappearing from data.gov, if you need access to Austin related federal data that has gone missing, a robust (but not comprehensive) dataset is available at casagraphicaaustin.org thanks to @CNLiberalism
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CasaGraphica
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CasaGraphica - Tracking, Discussing, Visualizing Housing in Austin.
Austin, TX เข้าร่วม Ekim 2023
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@KimChiSpicey @96hoya These are all just factors that impact supply and demand.
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I’ll take it a step further.
Could it be, that there are more than just these two factors in isolation? 🤯
Such as: interest rates, inflation, affordable housing %, anti-speculation rules, gas prices (affecting construction supplies), average incomes, financing options, etc?
I know it’s hard to do expand beyond basic arithmetic. I’m challenging you to be better.
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Update: every part of LA (even the burbs) is denser than downtown Austin. Density doesn’t equate to affordability. Lie debunked.
Perla Volontà 🔻@perlavolonta
@sands659 @KimChiSpicey LA is much denser than Austin. Same 3-km radius. The one with 185,000 people (over 50% denser than central Austin) is in the famously suburban San Fernando Valley.
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@JackCraver Live in it for 5 years, rent it for 5 years and live (renting) elsewhere. After 10 years roll your tax free gains into a new downpayment on a bigger house.... what's not to like? If you're early in your career, it can be a huge hedge on future cost of living in a city you like.
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I've never really understood the "starter home" thing. It seems based on the misperception that buying a home that you'll only live in for a few years is wise financially.
Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan
Everyone agrees that we need more Starter Homes ... and *only* way to make "Starter Homes" more affordable TODAY, is to build them smaller. Like they used to be But rather than focus on just size (<1400sf), I think it's more important to focus on function: A "Starter hHome" is just large enough where a couple feels ready to start their family. It’s smaller so that it is more affordable so a younger (or less wealthy) couple feels comfortable having a baby right now. If it's far away from where they currently live, or too expensive for them to afford then it doesn't fulfill its primary purpose And that is why I think that high quality rowhomes (both attached and detached) are a large part of the solution. They allow people who currently live in apartments to have kids & STAY in the their current neighborhood. At least for a little while longer. 2BR/1BA apartments and small single family detached matter too.
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@micah_erfan Don't forget to amortize it at current rates over 30 years. It's gonna be way more like 7500 per family by the time we're finally rid of the debt.
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$340 billion is enough to send every American family $2,500, btw.
Discourse News@Discourse__News
🚨 BREAKING: Trump's new peace deal with Iran includes a $340 billion payment by the United States to Iran.
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@phibetakefka @cruickshank Lol, literally just legalize apartment buildings and they'll start popping up like they do literally everywhere.
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@CasaGraphicaATX @cruickshank You'd need a multi-decade Marshall plan to create the kind of jobs and building program needed to transform the area, there's literally nothing but agriculture there. It's too far from SF or LA (though San Jose is a 2 hour commute if you can stand that) to be a bedroom community.
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1. There's no water. Monterey and Santa Cruz counties are not part of the State Water Project. Salinas Valley farmers already worry about drought.
2. This is some of the most productive farmland *in the world*. We should not be paving it over for homes. Build them in the cities.
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
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 the Salinas Valley hasn't been developed more its only got 390K people!
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@BayAreaNewLibs Scarcity mindset for everything but land, the only truly scarce good.
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The left-NIMBYs want us to build socialized solarpunk parking garages, I can't even man 😭
Kim Chi@KimChiSpicey
This is the future of what parking lots could be. Multiple levels of free car parking with electric charging stations. A state of the art rooftop for recreation, events, and an open green space with a community garden. Vertical gardens and solar panels. Let’s design spaces for all people and families. Not just single childless remote workers. This is what the future can look like if we transcend the profit-driven fear-based model of urban planning.
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The most crushing problem we have in blue cities is homelessness. It has negative cost to solve (build lots of market rate housing). Voters don’t want the problem solved, they prefer homeless suffering.
It’s worse to pretend otherwise.
cosmic cowgirl 🪩🤠@blockhim2026
A trillion dollars could solve virtually every problem. Any problem at all. But instead it’s all just going to Some Guy
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Talking to your family about voting persuasively is voter fraud.
Unless you vote Republican, of course.
wanye@xwanyex
Re mail voting: I’m just telling you that it is literally unbelievable that people are not having votes cast for them or being pressured into changing their vote by family members, etc. That’s literally impossible to believe. No smart person can believe it. It’s literally impossible to believe. We can argue about whether it’s just a few people or a lot of people. That’s fine. We can have that argument. But it’s literally impossible to believe that it’s not happening. Of course it’s happening. It is impossible to believe that that’s not happening.
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@CasaGraphicaATX @loganb Can you point me to a single city fixed by these Experts? As opposed to just by flipping the fix everything switch?
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@mattyglesias @sc_cath JDR also passed the majority of his wealth to his Foundation. Less than half was transferred to his kids during his life to avoid estate taxes.
The Vanderbilt fortune was basically taxed away in its entirety within three generations because they did NOT do this.
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@sc_cath I always feel like the basic demographics deserve more attention — John D Rockefeller had 22 grandchildren.
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What happened to the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Astor by the way?
According to the “law of capitalism” (r>g) their wealth should have grown ineluctably faster than GDP unless there is a wealth tax.
By now, assuming a 4% spread between r and g, these families fortunes should represent roughly 200% of GDP. Is that actually true?
Or maybe somehow the wealth of these families got ultimately diluted in other ways? Maybe we should wonder in what ways
Gabriel Zucman@gabriel_zucman
At the peak of the Gilded Age, the 4 largest fortunes were Rockefeller, Carnegie, Astor (+ Baker/Frick/Field depending on the year). If they had spent their wealth, they could have bought 4% of all the goods and services produced in a given year in the US at that time.
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@pleasedontatme I was just in Lisbon, the cafe to vape shop ratio is like 50 to 1, especially in the touristy AirBnb areas.
Tourists need to visit the vape shop once during their trip. The cafe 20 times.
This person is delusional.
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@RadicalT91 @loganb Then why does West Virginia have higher rates of addiction and mental illness than San Francisco with 1% of the homelessness issue?
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@thebeltwayagent @loganb Fully wrong, sorry.
We eliminated Single Room Occupancy in nearly every American city. These super-low-cost accomodations were affordable to even the poorest amongst Americans.
So we made them illegal. Now there's a ton of homeless. Not a coincidence.
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@loganb I’m sorry but the vast majority of the homeless in major cities are not fit to live in an apartment, they would be a threat to themselves or others, these are people with severe drug induced mental illness, these are not people who got priced out.
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@GuiveAssadi Tax free equity when you sell and roll it into a new home, that's literally all it is.
You can say that investing and renting is a better financial decision, but lots of people invest in Dogecoin and Trump Media.
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Why do people care so much about
owning a house? It’s generally a better idea to rent, especially in areas with a high price/rent ratio. I don’t understand the emotional pull of home ownership.
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@awong_SF While I love townhomes, small detached, dense building like this acheives density while still appealing to people who don't wish to share a wall with someone. At the price point, I don't really think there's much to complain about. Once the trees grow in it's gonna look great.
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Call me crazy but you could have more living space if those homes weren't detached
Financial Dystopia@financedystop
"Tiny homes" continue to grow in popularity. These are selling for around $140,000 for just over 600 square feet in Texas.
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Prices in Austin fell so aggressively in Austin thanks to our building spree that HALF of renters in Austin moved last year to take advantage of the fall in price.
Apartment managers take note: It's not 2021 anymore. Adjust your pricing for current tenants or lose money.
Austin Statesman@statesman
A surge in new apartments and tasty incentives is pushing Austin to the top for renter turnover nationwide. Other Texas cities are close behind. statesman.com/business/artic…
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Downtowns and mixed use neighborhoods subsidize the suburbs.
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@the_transit_guy In Austin, you can build three of these on every lot in the city.
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San Antonio would rather you live in a closet in the middle of a field than densify the city.
Financial Dystopia@financedystop
"Tiny homes" continue to grow in popularity. These are selling for around $140,000 for just over 600 square feet in Texas.
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