Go to the poor neighborhood in in city in america and its just as sad. Go to a poor rural area and it’s worse.
I would kill to live in a brezhnevka.
People of that opinion should really read Brian Goldstone’s “There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” Compared to other G7 countries, US is, indeed, a shithole country.
Gonna check it out thanks for the suggestion!
🇺🇸But it’s the greatest shithole nation! 🇺🇸
Of all the shithole countries it’s certainly exceptional in its shittyness
Those things were created as alternative to substandard housing. My problem is, we dont see them as wellfare housing but the “new normal”. Industry relies too hard on ppl living in those and paying too low wages.
Also, i dont care about visuals here but growing up in one of those, there’s too little free space for human worthy life. Playgrounds covered in trash, srynges, dogpoop. Anything with grass covered in dogpoop. Sketchy people trying to snatch children being a daily occurance.
Its just too many people in one place. Not a left/right problem though.
Also, i dont care about visuals here but growing up in one of those, there’s too little free space for human worthy life. Playgrounds covered in trash, srynges, dogpoop. Anything with grass covered in dogpoop. Sketchy people trying to snatch children being a daily occurance.
This sounds like a maintenance/cops issue. Especially when people are crammed in and there’s so little green space, ya can’t cut corners on things like cops and firemen and ambulances.
Especially when people are crammed in and there’s so little green space, ya can’t cut corners on things like cops and firemen and ambulances.
And add social workers and spaces to consume drugs to take care of the srynges, and Karens to take care of the bad dog owners. The wrong people profit from a war on drugs.
Alterlaa in Vienna
Investment vehicle. Buy and keep it empty, in a few years, use the value increase as collateral to buy more.
Criminalised homelessness that enslaves you in the prison system
So American Homelessness…
A further “bonus” is that once you get a conviction on record it makes it even harder to get out of homelessness by not only making it incredibly difficult to get a job but also any place you might rent that does a background check.
It’s a vicious cycle of worse and worse outcomes.
I was homeless for 8 years (January actually marked 8 years being in my apartment) and I saw that cycle constantly.
Same comrade…so many amazing people I’ve known are either dead or locked up for extended sentences because of that cycle. We were the rarities that actually made it out!
I would rather have a few boring tall buildings and lots of nature than lots of single family homes and way less nature.
“Communism bad because [thing that happens in capitalism]*”, vol. 69
Meanwhile, in God’s Own Chosen Land, all apartment complexes are one of two shitty design options and we get fleeced for the “privilege” of living there. Fuck it all, dammit
Don’t forget that they’re marketed as “Luxury Apartments” because the appliances were made in the last 10 years.
Here I thought it was cause you have the luxury of paying rent on them
It’s the luxury of breathing in mold spores from inside the walls and under the landlord special coat of paint
“These are boutique spores, you won’t find these anywhere else in this city. For the privilege of being able to breathe them in you owe me an extra $200 per month.”
Plus a fee for the luxury of paying him online, the only payment option
“Oh, and to be able to pay your luxury rent, you have to pay a monthly plan of $1000”
“Don’t forget to tip your landlord”
I ordered a replacement part for an electronic device I have that was on the fritz… Online… And there was a tip field at the end. As of there will even be a human involved in any of the order processing up until a person moves out from the van to my doorstep
Any new housing is still helpful for alleviating the crunch. If a rich people see a fancy new apartment and move in, that leaves the old places they had occupied available to be rented or bought and they have to be offered at a relative discount to what they would have been otherwise because the rich people prefer the fancy new place. (Note: if people in that area are snapping up housing at a faster rate than housing is being made available, that would still manifest as rising prices but with the prices rising at a slower rate than they would have otherwise.) That’s an opportunity for the less rich people to secure a spot where the rich people used to be, so they move out of their older and less nice places and so on to relocate. Within five years or so that propagates down the vacancy chain and opens up low income housing as well.
Also many times any kind of new apartment is called “luxury” as a marketing gimmick since it’s not really a controlled term and it makes people think of it as a more attractive place to live.
More housing needs to be built to alleviate the housing crisis. Unfortunately with housing also doubling for many as their largest investment and a retirement vehicle all rolled in one, people get absolutely furious if anything is done that would appreciably reduce the price of housing. Because homeowners make up so much of society and particularly politically influential society those interests are very politically difficult to take on.
@[email protected] would argue that, luxury appartments lead to affordable appartements - eventually.
True, as long as the market is competitive and people can’t make money by holding appartments. So it may be necessary to use vacant home taxes like Amsterdam.
Anything that creates supply is good. Luxery appartments make people move out of other appartments. Supply increases, rents go down.
But of course, to quickly build enough appartments for everybody and bring rent down to 25% of costs of living, or even 5%, is even better. https://feddit.org/post/34635067/14682965
the first fallacy is that this was “left-wing” architecture.
It was just boring architecture from Russia, built rapidly during a time of extreme homelessness. And it addressed that problem more than fatcat hate.
Everything they don’t like is left wing. Their brain doesn’t function beyond that.
More specifically this is hierarchist architecture
i’d argue that’s there’s nothing depressing about homelessness if you divorce it from cultural ideas about the housed, the houseless, comfort and class and laws.
what are you lacking if you have no home? no netflix? no bed? people survived without those things for thousands of years. what they’re lacking is dignity and freedom.
you have no agency as a living being when you’re ‘homeless’–you can’t hunt here because it’s owned land; you can’t park here because it’s owned land, you can’t build a shelter because it’s owned land, etc.
without those restrictions plenty of people would choose to be homeless.
I know several very conservative people that believe all government buildings, or ones that receive any government funding, should be featureless concrete rectangles with no other whatsoever.
So i didn’t know what this dude’s talking about .
As if you can equate an architectural style to a political philosophy.
