If it’s the one I am thinking of, they have a cat and terrible party neighbors I am in communication with them, but I’ll double back and check in case it isn’t! Thank you

"City is garbage" based on a few areas? I do agree that waterplace park isn't a good place to hangout when waterfire isn't happening. I think there are some nice parts of Providence lol. I like the east side.

I also don't think it's the solution. But I do think its new housing. And new housing is a solution, as evidenced by the existing literature.

Do I like this tower? No. Does it provide something that the city, state, and region needs? Yes. Could affordable housing be better? Sure. But the choice is not between this tower and affordable housing. The choice is between this tower and nothing.

We have barely built any housing in decades. It's a crisis. We are losing our privilege to be picky about what does get build. Just build the damn tower. We can build affordable hosing too. Or more market rate housing. Just build something.

Jesus. Sorry that happened.

There’s a post in r/providence where a couple is looking to get out of a nightmare rental situation, they might be interested. IIRC they have a small dog.

Way too out of place. I strongly dislike it and I hope it doesn’t go through, at least make it fit the other building aesthetic

Aerosols.

Droplets are not the same thing as aerosols. Airborne transmission - that is transmission via aerosols - is the primary mechanism: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

"But I can't afford this housing"

I hope they keep it cause I’ve seen a lot of post looking for places to rent in Providence, thank you for posting for others!

Exactly. People skip past this because 1 single building doesn't magically solve all of the problems or something. It's so short-sighted cause this problem is going to continue to get worse.

I think this tower is not the answer to the housing crisis in Providence and I think it’s naive to believe it is. Luxury development is not the solution in any of the links you provided. We don’t need this, we need our tax dollars to be invested in making more affordable housing, not to support the desire for a private developer to gain more wealth and power.

I would be interested to see how many people on here are actually Providence residents.

I have always shopped at RI Sawmill. They have a great selection and almost everything is locally harvested. Bring your checkbook, though - they don’t take cards.

https://www.risawmill.com/

Each of those links support the theory that market rate housing (what is usually termed luxury housing as a marketing ploy) leads to reductions in rent in the nearby neighborhood. The leading theory on why this empirical effect exists is that it increases slack in lower tiers of the housing market. Please, read the discussion section of these papers for further mention of this and other potential explanations. Or, better yet, search the literature yourself.

What is your theory of housing here? Do you think that this tower will attract people to Providence who otherwise would not have moved here? Where would wealthy people live otherwise?

its pretty clearly a bad translation of a story maybe AI and as such its hilarious. Its almost as funny this woman thinks a company in china selling junk online is going to be accountable to her for some reason.

None of the links you provided support your assertion that the rich people in the city will live here and no longer compete for housing with everyone else.

Sorry to say,they are not interested in more housing for low and mids. They can't line their pockets with money from them. Big business always wins. Sorry to feel that way,but in all my years ,it's always a repeating theme.

Is this development purely residential? From what I’ve seen RI should also be focusing on commercial space. As MA real estate gets more ridiculous people are moving farther and farther from the city. From my armchair it seems like RI is in a great position to attract workers from MA but is there office space for them to occupy?

I have a 2 bedroom coming up for $1400 off north main st in Providence near the Peter Pan bus terminal if you would like to see it. Sorry to hear this.

Luxury

> Assuming what you’re saying is rooted in actual data

Yes. As [1] plenty [2] of [3] research [4] shows [5]. In terms of data & research, this is uncontroversial.

> how exactly is that progress?

Small steps. We need more housing. This is housing, however imperfect. I would appreciate more housing, be it constructed by the government or private development, towers or duplexes, apartment buildings or townhomes, I don't really care. There is a housing crisis. Let the housing get built.

Yeah having lived in Boston and watched all the towers go up and housing costs continue to rise, it’s simply not factual.

Housing is not the same as guns and butter. You can’t just build an expensive good and expect it to decrease overall demand on a sector if the damand is at a lower price.

There are examples closer to home too. How’s that fancy tower and community In Portsmouth doing? I think the tower might finally be at full occupancy.

Well obviously the polis in this state are not really interested in working for the people. Then I say let them keep it up that end and play their games with each other up there.

It's prime property but it's been available for over a decade and it's been almost seven years since the first proposal for 3 towers there. Have there been any serious suitors with funding and a development plan that have expressed interest for this land?

If it's that desirable, surely, there'd be other interest, right?

The last thing Providence needs is a seasonal outdoor concert venue.