• vrek@programming.dev
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    3 hours ago

    Ok, I’m all for cutting down on cars/trucks… Do they have enough public transportation to make this viable??

    Plus I can see apartments now increase prices, “well we include a parking lot for your car”

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      It has been shown that around these places when they’re just dropped down with no underground parking, the streets around are jammed with people trying to park.

      So the problem shifts to everywhere around. They try to solve it by building big parking structures that contain no businesses and no residences but are just parking structures. Nice a job, Hoboken!

      The best thing to put in the basement is 4 levels of parking.

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    America’s housing crisis isn’t an accident — it’s by design

    Experts told lawmakers that families that needed mortgages were being outbid by private equity landlords with all-cash offers, and that they were jacking up rents, piling on junk fees, neglecting repairs and fueling eviction rates that local officials called destabilizing.

    By 2024, it had gotten so bad that Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., demanded a Federal Trade Commission investigation. Ryan warned that private equity firms could control 40% of the single-family rental home market by 2030. (That’s non-apartments, or standalone homes that people rent to live in.)

    Well this and AirBNB’s being ran by corporations.