Ok, I’m all for cutting down on cars/trucks… Do they have enough public transportation to make this viable??
Plus I can see apartments now increase prices, “well we include a parking lot for your car”
Pretty good for the US. Abhorrent for most other places. I used to live in Middletown and commute to Hartford (two cities about 20 miles away from each other-Middletown isn’t a main city, but as the name implies, it’s pretty central, whereas Hartford’s the capital) mostly with my car, sometimes with my bike, and for one week with the bus.
The trip from my house (again, in the middle of the state, between the two main cities, and even pretty close to the midpoint between NYC and Boston) to my office took about 30 minutes by car, ~90-120 by bike, and 150 by bus and train. I could have done it faster, but not without arriving after 10am, which wasn’t cool at my job.
That said, they had just finished the train when I tried and I moved away several years ago, so I can imagine it’s gotten more streamlined and/or they’ve expanded it.
It has been shown that around these places when they’re just dropped down with no underground parking, the streets around are jammed with people trying to park.
So the problem shifts to everywhere around. They try to solve it by building big parking structures that contain no businesses and no residences but are just parking structures. Nice a job, Hoboken!
The best thing to put in the basement is 4 levels of parking.
America’s housing crisis isn’t an accident — it’s by design
Experts told lawmakers that families that needed mortgages were being outbid by private equity landlords with all-cash offers, and that they were jacking up rents, piling on junk fees, neglecting repairs and fueling eviction rates that local officials called destabilizing.
By 2024, it had gotten so bad that Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., demanded a Federal Trade Commission investigation. Ryan warned that private equity firms could control 40% of the single-family rental home market by 2030. (That’s non-apartments, or standalone homes that people rent to live in.)
Well this and AirBNB’s being ran by corporations.
being ran
being run
Not in their dialect.
