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Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Who's your Suburb Buddy?

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Adam Hengels had a good post about fighting rising rents back in 2015. He points out that while "gentrification" battles are alm...
Monday, April 6, 2015

They can't go back to Ohio

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One of the nastiest aspects of NIMBYism in New York City is the scapegoating of people who moved here from somewhere else. For years I'...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

NYCHA and the fetishized green space

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Today the Daily News published a hyperbolic " EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA selling off green space to developers! " As one person remarked o...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

There is no luxury housing

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I've noticed lately that it's become popular to scoff at "luxury housing." The people who scoff tend to do it as proof th...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Where is the roads and bridges settlement?

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It was a big con game, and many of the biggest con artists believed their own hype. "It can never go down!" they cried. They del...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Did you bring enough housing for everybody?

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When I was a kid, one of the things the teachers told us was that if you bring snacks or candy, you have to bring enough for everyone. If y...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Could we build another Park Slope?

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Do you like the modern towers of the Upper East Side? Photo: Peter Cigliano / Flickr. How about a nice gigantic Upper West Side prewar a...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Unpacking gentrification

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Transit advocates, pedestrian advocates, urbanists and in general all the people who are trying to improve the quality of life in cities nee...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cheap housing with els

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Two years ago I wrote that for truly affordable housing we not only do we need an adequate supply of living space, as Matt Yglesias explain...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

In 2013, subways raise property values

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Suppose that you live in a detached single-family home a block from the old Brooklyn Manor train station in Woodhaven. Your neighbors are s...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

The difference a lane (or toll) makes

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Stephen Smith has a great piece in the Observer showing how the Bloomberg administration has adapted its development strategy to avoid clas...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

How much of "density" is just less space for cars?

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There are many benefits from living and working in dense environments, but there are plenty of people who are against density, and come out ...
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Party out of bounds

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Okay, so you're having a party. You call a bunch of friends and put the word out on Facebook. None of you have much money, but you cas...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Trainwreck at the edge of the water

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Today I took a little trip up to the Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, New Jersey, and picked up some Pocky, instant iced green tea, and riv...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How many Jakriborgs is that?

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Earlier this year, the Small Streets Blog introduced us to the planned community of Jakriborg, founded in 1990 on 12.5 acres of farmland bet...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Why do we care about Willets Point again?

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For years I've been reading about various plans to redevelop the Willets Point area, each worse than the last . Each time I wonder why ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Price drops aren't always forever

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A few months ago I came across the notion of "filtering" on Charlie Gardner's Old Urbanist blog. It's an idea that's...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Not all housing is equal

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Last weekend I read Matt Yglesias's concise 76-page critique of housing policy, The Rent is Too Damn High . I agreed with pretty much ev...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Housing is about access

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BBC Radio had an interesting documentary about the role of nonprofits, also known as "NGOs," in India. I was particularly struck ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

From tragedy to farce in Bushwick

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Today Streetsblog had a post about a few blocks immediately to the east of the Knickerbocker Avenue el station in Bushwick, where developme...
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