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NYC rents continue to skyrocket – making living in gay male-desired neighborhoods too expensive for most of the community
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Wouldn't want to end up with too many tall buildings in *checks notes* Manhattan.
Manhattan is literally the kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism that’s illegal to build in Manhattan itself.
what's even more wild is that manhattan's population peaked in 1910
New York City needs massive deregulation. Trump should push this and tie it to federal funding.
$1 billion per every 100 regulations you cut.
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whoa; and is this blamed on people not wanting/able to build?
Imagine what we could have! 
When someone has to to say no because they are responsible to make sure the infrastructure still works, the electricity can be delivered, the schools can support the children, poop can be disposed of and water reaches the upper floors, it’s not nimbyism.
That’s not what’s happening here. Also, all solvable problems by a competent city government.
NYC rents continue to skyrocket – making living in gay male-desired neighborhoods too expensive for most of the community
Absolutely insane to me that a building can have too many apartments or be too tall in Manhattan
Like that just doesn’t make sense
You can fill the place with illegal immigrants and pay for all of their shit but you can''t build a skyscraper. The hell kind of NYC is that?
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All of those reasons are bad but the one about too many businesses kills me. Why would I want to live in an awesome, new construction apartment in Manhattan and not have a variety of shops and services immediately surrounding me? What type of community building is that?
Eh, idk - - it's like the moment you enact some new regulation about the placement of outlets in the kitchen, haven't you suddenly made a ton of earlier buildings "illegal to build" if they were using the old regulation?
saw issue here in Fort Worth. People absolutely love the intact historic (1910s-1930s) neighborhoods, but current zoning and regs prevent them from being recreated. The part I like in particular is mix of SFR and 2-8 unit MF in the same neighborhood.
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So, we should only enact zoning & building regulations that have no impact and don't change anything, because the way it has all been up to now is perfect in every way. Have I got that right?
Yeah cause there's already a building there and it would make the current occupants very upset
So grandfathered in.
And Supply constrained.
Can’t build like you used to.
I don’t understand. What about the modern skyscrapers seen today? They seem to be taller with more residential and commercial spaces.
this is a good analysis but please don't orient Manhattan horizontally like this
okay but no one wants to turn quaint little neighborhoods like the East Village into Manhattan.
Changing zoning in areas like NYC to lower costs for housing and funding the MTA to make it easier to use and go more places is one of many things dems need to do to improve urban governance ahead of future elections
Is this so that, other people can’t build generational wealth and assets for the community? I see this as a way to cut people out, a good example of a lower and upper class
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A man should be able to build, upon his own land, as he sees fit and his own two hands are able.
zoning laws be like: pull the ladder up!
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Is there any data on the total number of apartments and businesses that would be lost?
I had the opposite reaction walking through Manhattan.
"Four stories? This should be illegal!"
It would be deeply comical how bad the US is at building if it wasn't such a massive problem.
Also in a lot of cases they couldnt be built because theres already an existing building there.
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Dems need to get it through their heads that if there isn't enough cheap housing, people will move out and they will keep losing In the electoral college.
You can’t have too many apartments OR businesses? What else would go there, government buildings.
If it takes you longer to bring them up to your apartment than it took to shop, the building is too tall.
most of old building do not comply with fire and other type of safety regulations, it's not an absurd.
It's not a useful statistic unless you're advocating for never changing anything - which would make you a NIMBY
“Too many apartments”
I’m sorry… what tf is the point of manhattan then?
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This is true everywhere you have historical buildings. You don’t travel a lot, do you?
They should either wall NYC off, making it a prison or bulldoze everything and start over.
Like California and Jersey, NYC is a shithole. I regret every single time I've had to go to these places.
What a joke. Democrats need to become the party of change again. Not lies to appease people not actually in favor of good policies
Manhattan has an embarrassingly unimpressive skyline. Tens of millions wanna live there but it's full of dilapidated walk-ups with jury rigged facilities.
The city thrives despite its governance
And this is why those buildings are getting increasingly more expensive. If middle class homes and businesses are scarce, they stop being middle class
People driven to vote for the authoritarian who promises to get rid of the deep state really just want Gladice at the Sierra Club and Bob in City Planning to stop blocking everything. Strong man needed, we just might not have the right one.
YIMBYs want to usher the return of flophouses to America.
Yep. The environmental requirements are much more expensive now.
