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You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-... Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.
You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-... Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/il/centralia/crime#descrip...
You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-... Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.
Something has to be horribly undesirable about that.
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The thing is homeowners benefit from denser zoning because the potential of their land is increased even if the average unit price comes down - also the amenity value of more jobs, amusements, school funding/tax base, etc in the city should show up in the price too.
Homeowners definitely do not believe that their home prices benefit from denser zoning. (I'm a housing activist, very close to killing off SFZ in my muni, knock wood).
You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-... Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.
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Homeowners definitely do not believe that their home prices benefit from denser zoning. (I'm a housing activist, very close to killing off SFZ in my muni, knock wood).
Homeowners care less about their house prices than people realize - it's just a convenient excuse. Most homeowners just don't want things to change.
" The housing problem hasn't been solved" This assumes it is a problem that is being addressed. When housing values soar, there are people getting rich off of that. The "solution" is devaluation of people's assets, and all politics is local, and all local politics is housing values. As clearly is a supply and demand issue. Supplies clearly being artificially suppressed. Of course, the housing market merely reflects e…
Yeeep. It feels like one of those “holding a wolf by the ears” situations. I don’t know how we get out of this mess. One especially frustrating part of it is that it really benefits nobody. Your home goes up in value, cool. You owe more property taxes. And all the other homes around you also go up in value, so… you’re really no better off unless you downsize or move to a cheaper housing market. Something akin to Geor…
You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-... Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.
With a crime rate of 32 per one thousand residents, Centralia has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 31. Within Illinois, more than 95% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Centralia. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/il/c…