almost as if it isn't avocado toast that's making millennials poor
Just need to hustle more /s
No matter what size bootstraps I use I can't for the life of me pull myself up by them, it's almost like an impossible task or something.
The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
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Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#792Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buddy if you want to convince people to use public transit, saying a little shit is normal is not the way to do it btw I live in Tokyo and moved here explicitly because of public transit.
That wasn’t the message - it’s the presence of having normal people. Public transport is just as popular in NYC as it is in Tokyo despite the shit. Just got back from 3.5 months in Europe (17 cities), and yes it’s vastly better there, far more clean and sane. Still, coming back to NYC I’m not not taking the subway despite spending nearly my whole life in SoCal. It’s easily the better option over owning a car if you’r…
I see where you're coming from, but the "normal people" leave because of these incidents. If you want everyday people riding the train, you gotta make sure that the poorest people in society aren't so miserable that they're unpleasant to be around.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#793Create a progressive tax on multiple homes. Increase tax on corporate owners. There
also tie tax bracket to rent above a reasonable AMT like 10 percent at 1k, 20 percent at 2k, 35 percent at 3k, 60 percent at 4k, I mean different size rentals will have a different formula, just for examples sake.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#794A distant family member, 80 years old, long-widowed and without children, almost became homeless in Florida due to rapidly rising rents in the town she has lived in since the ‘80s. She never bought a house or condo, and the company where she worked part time as an admin assistant folded last year. The landlord gave her six months’ notice, which I thought was generous, but she ultimately did not secure alternate housi…
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Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#795Why can’t we have more boarding houses? 14 people can each get a 220-square-foot room and then share 3 bathrooms, a large kitchen, and a living room. It bothers me that this kind of dwelling is illegal.
it's not illegal, if it were dorms would be illegal, it's just not many want to go this route and it's probably not profitable for developers, there's a number of intentional communities that do this sort of thing or everyone has tiny homes without a kitchen and they maybe share one big kitchen in an out building or something....
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
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Their parents, society, etc. I won't convince you because you've got your anecdotes. Though I'd say if a public school counselor, parents and teachers all tell a 17 year old it's "college or bust", it's laughable to argue "ah, those teenagers should have been rational, informed consumers of professional training and eschewed the advice of every trusted adult in their life".
It does not take professional training to see the price tag of a student loan and to question if one can reasonably pay it off in the future. Certainly, someone equipped with the skills needed to be accepted into a college that costs so much should be able to do the math required on that calculation.
I think the fact that student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy is a nod to the fact that everyone involved knows that the people taking them are largely uneducated about what they are.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
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The combination of: 1. Land costs 2. Labor costs 3. Material costs 4. Zoning laws 5. Building codes For example some zoning laws have a height restrictions, which limits my development to 3-story buildings, when I would actually want to build a 5-story building For building codes, some would require me to put in $100 breakers, when I could do with simpler $20 breakers, etc. etc. for a LOT of items, which also feeds i…
You're wrong. Not going to do the legwork to show you how.
OK, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#798Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bellingham isn't very affordable, but Marysville and Darington are still kind of affordable. And those two places aren't that far north of Everett.
Ok, but if high speed rail from Seattle to/from those towns was added they wouldn't stay affordable for very long. In order for that not to happen lots of housing units would need to be added to those areas.
Those places already growing at a steady clip. They aren't very desirable though.
In high school, I lived in South Snohomish county (it was still just Bothell even though it wasn't in King Co). Within striking distance of Seattle, so it grew quickly. I had friends from Marysville and Darington however, they didn't like living in those places very much.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
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What government policy would allow for a 2k apartment building and not a $500 apartment building? I just don't buy this argument. The reason there's not a $500 apartments being built is because by expanding the residence out just a tiny bit you can charge $2000 for the same space that 2 $500 apartments would occupy. I'm seeing this play out where I live that has practically no zoning laws or regulations (LOTS of buil…
We know it’s from zoning laws because a few places don’t have this problem > “We have kept our rent increases to about 1% whereas the rest of the country was looking at 31%,” Mayor Jacob Frey said on Monday, citing data from The Pew Charitable Trusts. > “That’s a drastic difference. And in part, it’s due to the policies that we’ve passed.” > It’s mostly simple supply and demand, according to Mayor Frey. An explosion…
> Still, on average, people are spending about 40% of their paychecks on renting a place to live.
I think it's fair to say they've made progress in slowing the growth of the housing problem, but it is a big stretch to say they don't have a housing affordability problem.
Re: The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
#800Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the standard conservative "big government" and "young people today don't want to work" rant. > The problem is government regulation. In some places, it's almost impossible to build new houses due to regulations. Regulation yes, but it's not the lack of building; we're building like crazy all over North America. Many new homes are "lost" and become second or third homes for the wealthy or airbnb rentals. Regul…
I think you misunderstood. I think the comment you are responding to is about NIMBY-ism.
It's about 15 different things, including NIMBY-ism.