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City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » October 12th, 2018, 1:13 pm

RV landlords for housing low income workers where home owners restrict supply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iW0YuvGJjo

Anywhere to park an RV in SW Minneapolis?

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby seanrichardryan » October 12th, 2018, 1:42 pm

How about Lake Harriet Parkway?
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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » October 12th, 2018, 1:54 pm

I’m not so sure, you would see them from the middle of the lake after all and that’s important down there I’m told.

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby BBMplsMN » October 12th, 2018, 2:23 pm

Not sure where to put this, but The New York Times is providing a map of every building in America. And it's fascinating and mesmerizing.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tates.html

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » October 14th, 2018, 8:19 am

Subsidizing lower cost online orders with public-funded transit to outlying distribution centers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/retails-ne ... 1539336605

In fairness, in the Twin Cities at least, the story mentions Amazon’s facility is “partly or fully” paying to transport workers to their facility in Shakopee. I wonder if that is a small hoped perk for locating a second facility at the end of the Blue Line Extension?

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » October 20th, 2018, 10:28 am

Google, Amazon, Tesla are flirting with getting into homebuilding.

https://www.businessinsider.com/homebui ... la-2018-10

Feels like home building needs some innovation.

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » February 16th, 2020, 7:52 am

The rise of doorbell cams.

Maybe helping crack cases? http://www.startribune.com/across-twin- ... 567913562/

Or maybe not much evidences offered besides people’s feelings.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/cute-v ... t-n1136026

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Multimodal » April 20th, 2020, 12:53 pm

Google, Amazon, Tesla are flirting with getting into homebuilding.

https://www.businessinsider.com/homebui ... la-2018-10

Feels like home building needs some innovation.
If by innovation we mean surveillance capitalism, count me out.

Google’s Sidewalk division is having a tough time convincing Toronto that we need a Smart City (i.e. Surveillance City), so if they get into the home building business, they can just do whatever they want. Amazon would be much the same. Both would also automate any jobs out of construction.

“Affordable housing” or even perhaps free housing would be much like “free” services on the web, in which the human is the product.

I hope this is not the direction Affordable Housing is going.

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Re: City living trends and predictions

Postby Anondson » December 14th, 2023, 4:21 pm

Possible trend. Churches converted to housing.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... polis.html

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