Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
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#2> Building codes adopted by the city do not require natural light in apartment bedrooms, and developers have been designing and constructing windowless bedrooms since at least 2002. The majority of these rooms appear to be in student housing
Charlie Munger donated most of the money to build this awful dorm at the University of Michigan:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residences-mi...
Plans for a similar building at UC Santa Barbara were fortunately scrapped:
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/09/goodbye-dormzilla-hel...
Re: Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
#3The question is how many fewer bedrooms would be available now if these rules had been in place years ago, and what would that do to the price of rent and the rate of homelessness. And ask a homeless person if they'd prefer to be on the streets or live in a windowless bedroom.
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#4This is great. Some people like windows, some people have no use for them. It's good to have choices in the market for what people want to spend their money on.
Re: Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
#5The question is how many fewer bedrooms would be available now if these rules had been in place years ago, and what would that do to the price of rent and the rate of homelessness. And ask a homeless person if they'd prefer to be on the streets or live in a windowless bedroom.
> And ask a homeless person if they'd prefer to be on the streets or live in a windowless bedroom.
Many homeless can and do choose the streets over shelters even at severe risk of dying to exposure, for reasons often involving schizophrenia and the many hazardous inmates around.
So I’m not really keen on the argument that letting developers create anti-human structures would magically result in loads more useful structures for the homeless. That argument continues to completely ignore what the homeless need.
If I wanted elevated student suicides and mental health issues, and increased homeless deaths to cold, windowless prison cells sounds like a great candidate to try.
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#6Funny, my son lives in one of those. I warned him, but he said it wouldn't bother him. It is now bothering him.
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#7This is great. Some people like windows, some people have no use for them. It's good to have choices in the market for what people want to spend their money on.
In today’s world there are choices but the choice is made by those in power “for us”, so we don’t even need to worry about making a choice. They say you want windows, huge lawns, low rise buildings and planty of parking space. If you can’t afford it you go homeless.
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#8pique capitalism (spelling intentional).
Re: Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
#9This is great. Some people like windows, some people have no use for them. It's good to have choices in the market for what people want to spend their money on.
In today’s world there are choices but the choice is made by those in power “for us”, so we don’t even need to worry about making a choice. They say you want windows, huge lawns, low rise buildings and planty of parking space. If you can’t afford it you go homeless.
Or you could move elsewhere if you can't afford to develop something custom. There is no entitlement to someone else's property.
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#10Bedroom windows are a sleep hygiene problem for anyone who doesn't plan to wake up at dawn year round. I've installed blackout curtains as I moved, but they don't work all that well.