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automaton11 t1_jbrfroi wrote

Reply to comment by fishythepete in Fane Tower project in Providence is dead by The_Dream_of_Shadows

Doesnt this perpetuate the inflation thats causing the crisis in the first place? The way to treat it is to add housing to the middle of the curve, balancing the function. Adding housing to the right hand side of the curve only pushes everyone down to the left and perpetuates the problem, albeit with richer and richer people. See also: Manhattan

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fishythepete t1_jbres9v wrote

Reply to comment by automaton11 in Fane Tower project in Providence is dead by The_Dream_of_Shadows

>This is not how this functions.

Yes, u/automaton11, That is exactly how this functions.

>Housing price is better represented as a function of objective quality, not of demand. People move, houses dont.

Unironically using the phrase “objective quality” shows just how far you are over your skis here.

>Building high end housing will gentrify an area without elevating struggling classes.

Non sequitur…

>Owners of homes of a given quality level will generally continue to rent to persons of a given income class.

As someone who’s owned several rental properties, that’s not how that works. Landlords seek market clearing rents. They don’t give a fuck about someone’s “income class.”

>Over time this can change, but it changes more slowly than does housing turnover, and because of that, people follow the housing, not the other way around.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say here, and I’m not convinced you do either.

>100 luxury apartments will bring in 100 rich people from wherever. If rich people move out of houses in RI, they move out of houses that will not immediately be filled by people of lesser means. You have the function backwards.

One of us has it backwards, and it is not me. If you’re under the impression that the creation of new luxury housing is what draws economically mobile people to the area, you are mistaken. People are moving down from Boston every week, happily trading the longer commute for the one day a week they need to be in the office for the lower cost of living. If the Fane Tower isn’t built, they’re still coming, and they’ll take the next best thing on the market.

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sophware t1_jbre5s6 wrote

Reply to comment by BingBong022 in Tried a pizza strip for the first time by ScatmanCrothers10

I'm going to agree with you and with the downvotes, somehow.

I've been a RIer for a loooong time but was originally a New Yorker. I got made fun of for holding a pizza slice (real pizza) using the fold technique. The person was laughing while I was like, "This is like getting made fun of for shooting a basketball normally instead of granny style."

All due respect for people who like the granny shot for free throws and red strips for parties (I sometimes bring 'em), but the following is how you shoot a basketball, even for a free throw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJE9mhwO058

…and the following is pizza:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g47939-d829479-Reviews-Little_Vincent_s_Pizza-Huntington_Long_Island_New_York.html

Sure, there's room for coal-fired, wood fired, grilled, apizza (New Haven), deep dish (hi Chicago--we can get along), and their cousins red pizza/ pizza strips/ bakery pizza/ party pizza/ whatever. Even in NY, Sicilian is recognized (and sometimes preferred); and we can all appreciate a calzone.

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fishythepete t1_jbrc5ny wrote

Reply to comment by stosyfir in Fane Tower project in Providence is dead by The_Dream_of_Shadows

>“Luxury Apartments” in a skyscraper isn’t going to help the housing problem.

Yes. It is. You know what helps a housing shortage? Housing. In the absence of new high end housing, people coming in from Boston / NY will be competing for the existing high end housing stock. The people they’re competing with go down market, and so on.

>The people affected by the housing problem wouldn’t be able to live here.

No shit. But they won’t be able to afford the place they’re living now either if there isn’t new housing built that absorbs new higher income residents.

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maybebullshitmaybe t1_jbra44e wrote

Reply to comment by Environmental-Ad4090 in Tried a pizza strip for the first time by ScatmanCrothers10

Also .... question. I've only ever been to colvittos once because again... we're talking ALLL the way in Narragansett lol but their strips are different aren't they? They do cheese right? Or do they have the "normal" ones too? Because the one time I went with someone else our strips had cheese. which as a cheese lover was fine for me but jus wondering from someone who has clearly been more than myself

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