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Other world cities like London and Tokyo add housing at higher rates than NYC it would be possible to add more housing than what is currently happening. I do agree that when a only small amount of housing is allowed the those who end up possessing it will be the rich and powerful. The better option...

Widespread unoccupied apartments are a myth, a red herring. According to this article NYT Manhattan, which is a magnet for absentee condo owners, only 2.1% of housing units are not occupied year round. If the city added housing at a rate equal to the rest of the country the percentage would likely ...

I'm going to parrot a talking point of @MarketUrbanism: People will believe anything when it comes to unoccupied apartments and oligarchs, no matter how ludicrous. Even NYT writers, apparently.

Yeah, show me a major newspaper saying these places are actually inhabited and we can talk.

Notice how zero data was presented. Anecdotal evidence at best.

What actual data would you expect? Which management companies do you honestly expect would ever release that kind of data?

Other than Manhattan, Miami, London, and a few SFO neighborhoods, is that really happening? In Mpls at least, net new units actually bring in net new residents. In Minneapolis? Probably not to an extent that's actually worth mentioning. But it is a big deal in NYC, SFO, etc. which is why we shouldn...

On one side of how new development causes high prices (which I find laughable since there's so little new development) The trouble for cities like San Francisco (and also NYC, London, and other very high-demand cities) is that much (in some cases almost all) of the new development isn't actually go...

A mountain doesn't do anything. Look at Colorado. I would rather be by the water which we have plenty of. I mean, look, I live here the same as you; clearly we've made our choice. But just because we don't have a problem being far from mountains doesn't mean that a lot of people don't. Actually con...

Mountains? What does that have to do with anything? What people most people don't realize is that if you are an interesting person it doesn't matter where you live. People that complain about this and that are the least interesting people in the world and hard to be around. You can scoff, but there...

Sigh. You're so right. Of course you are. The dorms are a terrible deal and luxury apartments are a great deal. Move along. Well, that wasn't really my original point. I was just pointing out that living in Floco is comparable to living in Territorial, price-wise, and neither seem like a great deal...

I don't think there's a unanimous agreement that, the Camdi building for example, represents a unique vernacular with very few examples left in the city. There are dozens of streetcar commercial nodes around the city, and they've all got this same kind of buildings. Less the Camdi building (which i...

The Loring and the Varsity theater are nice, but most of it's just bland turn of the century or later commercial buildings, and I don't think they hold any great value in and of themselves. I think their value mostly comes from the fact that there are relatively few others left in any of the commer...

Google picks up on bus route changes at about the same time as they come into effect, so I'd imagine that the Green Line will be similar.

The Franklin Ave. station has pretty poor maintenance: the elevators pretty much always smell like urine (and have significant vandalism, including intentional broken buttons), the ticket machines and pillars are heavily marked and vandalized, etc. I know Franklin gets a different crowd than some of...

Not sure how many folks use Route 2 between Dinkytown and Old St. Anthony

Those buses are consistently standing-room-only in the mornings and afternoons, as students are heading to and from the University from various rentals in Marcy-Holmes. Nixing the 2 there would be a disaster.

This is a wholly separate thought, but a good one I think. Why not split up the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association along 35W? Marcy-Holmes stays west of 35W, and a new Dinkytown Neighborhood Association is formed east of 35W. The Marcy-Holmes one could even merge with East Bank-Nicollet Island i...

Three urban campuses with thriving commercial districts that I've visited in the past year are the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of California in Los Angeles and Northwestern University in Evanston. Ask a Seattle resident and they'll say the same thing about the U district tha...

And where some see a "thriving business district," others see a fading, shabby neighborhood in need of an overhaul. Travel around the country. The lively, mixed-use commercial districts adjacent to other major universities put backward Dinkytown in an unfavorable light. The U of M and Min...

I did a quick search and didnt find anything, so I'm sorry if this topic has been discussed and I missed it, but has there been any movement to nickname the Stadium Valhalla? I think this would be brilliant and pay homage to the mascot, because when Vikings died in battle, they went to Valhalla. On...

The aerial map seems to pretty strongly suggest that it's going to mean the whole block:

http://hcmcnews.org/2014/04/14/hcmc-pla ... te-aerial/

Does anyone here have any experience with the various management companies in Stevens Square/the north part of Whittier? I've been looking into them and hearing mixed things, but it's hard to tell how much of that is real and how much of that is just people who are afraid of cities and "urban&q...