While we’re on the subject, any dance studios or trainers good enough to teach ballroom dancing would be appreciated as well.

>It's an issue of political will, plain and simple.

Agreed. We could probably stop pretending that Americans want to be Europe. It just seems like such a waste of time to get distracted with shit that simply will not happen anytime remotely soon in the United States.

I prefer looking at solutions and options that have at least a snowball's chance in hell at coming to fruition. Everything beyond that is unproductive white noise.

I would also like to know this

There are places in the world where social housing is common, and affordable, and even desirable. There's no reason it cannot be done, and done right, in America.

It's an issue of political will, plain and simple. If the will can be found, the money can be found.

This is peak Wokeism.

cue the crying from every side possible

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Neat

Aren't they...? https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/11/providence-superman-building-redevelopment-ri-approves-state-incentives/9732216002/

I'd love the idea but there'$ a lot of $eriou$ logi$tical i$$ue$ why it i$ not really fea$ible to do that.

Agree! I think this idea that we want our streets to look like suburban NJ with no overnight parking is ridiculous. Our entire street's population (except for us) has turned over completely save 2 properties since then. It makes no sense.

I'd wonder if there's a mechanism to to undo/change that. I've spent basically the last decade on an included street, surrounded by included streets but if someone went to their city councilor now and tried to get that changed, do they even have a mechanism for it? Has it happened anywhere?

Really, the city should just unilaterally say "if there's parking during the day, there's permit parking at night" and be done with it. Anyone who wants no parked cars allowed on their street can fuck off and move.

the "NIMBY" phenomenon (not in my backyard) - opposition by residents to proposed developments in their local area; such residents are only opposing the development because it is close to them and that they would tolerate or support it if it were built farther away.

Watch out, big brain libertarian over here about to tell us all how painfully mislead we are while communicating through an internet infrastructure developed, built, paid for and maintained by public funding.

totally agree - letting residents opt out (67% i think was the amount of no's needed) and then not doing a regular "re"vote is ridiculous.

They'll definitely boot cars after 5. It's funny the city doesn't just put a registration/license renewal hold for unpaid tickets.

The only people who'd let tickets linger more than a few years would be people who left the state that you'd probably never collect from anyway.

Speaking of insane things we need to fix.

Like I said, the phoenix dragon lot.

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The ideas behind this—land trusts that keep affordable housing affordable in perpetuity are important and have been shown to work. The issue is always funding them initially. But if cities support it as a whole then it can be done. You will have powerful interests not in favor, such as the real estate industry, so it is tough. Most people think of housing as a commodity, somewhere to build wealth, which makes it harder to support sustainable/affordable housing. But unless we want to turn into wealthy s***holes with lots of boarded up places too expensive for folks to rent or start businesses then you MUST have a variety of housing for people along all incomes. It’s what makes providence great. I’m the past we have had housing that artists, teachers, new business owners can afford. If you stick to market based models of housing you loose this, and you loose the backbone of your community. No one wants a bunch of 20 y/o working for tech as the only residents of a city.

There's no need - prejudiced classist insults refute themselves.

So why aren't they doing that with the Superman Building?

It is kinda funny on this sub how everyone’s first reaction to a new housing development is to complain that there isn’t more low-income housing being developed

Why do you bother posting in here if you moved from providence to Poland? Do you just like to complain?

Congrats. Have fun paying 1800/month rent