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rvafun100 t1_j2xksyx wrote

Reply to comment by goodsam2 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

You’re so wrong on so many levels it is pointless to try to inform you. The Pulse already runs right by these areas (except Chamberlayne and Manchester but it will expand), there are row houses currently being built as well as the more valuable high density apartments. Again, get outside and walk around, real life is much different than the nonsense you spew on Reddit

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goodsam2 t1_j2xjawl wrote

Reply to comment by Charlesinrichmond in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

I do think we need some actually tiny apartments, SROs, though.

I think if they can make $175 a week work in NYC they can make it work in Richmond for what $100. That would help people from spiraling into homelessness, that would help people who just moved here. That's literally what the song YMCA is about, the song is about the old SROs that existed to help mostly young men get established in an area. It's a free market solution to take a bite out of homelessness.

I would have lived in one for a couple of weeks after starting my job then moved onto a normal apartment to live with some friends.

You don't have to ban something people don't want.

Edit: I will say that I don't think that many would take them but I think adding some SROs would be really beneficial.

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goodsam2 t1_j2xi9dr wrote

Reply to comment by plummbob in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

I think there's more to it than housing but I think it's a huge piece. I think all payer rate setting would fix a lot (any MRI is $100 and if insurance or you pay cash the max price is $100 in America.

I really wish a party would take this up rather than wading into industries with Baumol's cost disease. Childcare and long term car whether we like it or not will increase with increasing wages across the board.

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goodsam2 t1_j2xhujt wrote

Reply to comment by rvafun100 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

Those aren't the same at all. The density is way lower. Between setbacks and parking lots the density doesn't allow for something like the pulse. Minimum density for 15 minute leads for busses is 10,000 per SQ mile which the fan is at ~12k and museum is ~9.5k.

Those are also apartments and not row houses, we basically don't build new row houses. These are all worse off due to these regulations IMO. Scott's addition has removed a lot of the parking requirements and focused on transit and I think it's become all the better for it. The way the regulations are setup, it says the fan is unsafe while being the most desirable neighborhood...

If you want to get into specifics in the code I can.

My position is that we need to double the amount of housing being added per year, I think increasing the density and removing parking would increase housing added and decrease price. We clearly have skyrocketing demand and housing prices seems like we should build more and find out why they aren't.

Look at how many neighborhoods in Richmond haven't added housing in decades. We have a huge supply problem that will take decades to fix.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPUTSA

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