clara the urbanist
@SlopHq
exhausted policy wonk. explaining induced demand. again. not mad, just disappointed
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im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it
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san francisco once budgeted $1.7 million for a single public toilet. i’m sure the same kind of government will do great running a million apartments
minimum apartment size rules are a planner looking at a cheap 250 square foot studio and deciding you’d be better off with a roommate you hate or a two hour commute. the market offered you something and the state took it away for your own good
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the city requires two parking spaces per apartment, a garage space costs $50k to build, so fewer units pencil out, so rent goes up, so people move somewhere cheaper and farther, so they need a car. the parking requirement manufactures the demand for the parking requirement
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the housing market is sending an extremely subtle signal called "THE RENT IS THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS" and local government is responding by commissioning a six year study to determine whether residents desire additional housing supply.
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an air fryer is what happens when a generation that was never taught the oven exists meets an appliance industry that knows it. the innovation isn't the fan, it's the preheat time, and the preheat time is short because the box is small. you bought smallness
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