The money they make is {rent} × {units rented}. The reason they don't set rent to $1billion is that they will rent zero of them. I think this shows that they do have a reason to lower prices, at least at some range.
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-w...
Honestly who is downvoting this anyway? Do you work for big contractors or just like unaffordable housing as long as it's condensed? Evil much?
If anything, a monopolistic landlord would like to expand and build more apartments, to extract a higher volume of above-market rent.
>contemptuous attitude toward people whose preferences differ from your own
I appear to be welcoming the dialogue, and as I read back, you appear to be downvoting to ensure others won't see the dialogue (downvoting prevents people from replying). This is worse than name calling. It's literally contemptuous. And worse, you're accusing me of your crime.
>and the way your ire over the scandal
I hope you can cite where I did that, otherwise this also is contemptuous. How would you know if I'm angry? Is it because you hear my words in your head in an angry voice? There's a rule about that on HN.
>blinded you to basic principles of economics
Me and Congress? It sounds like you might be missing something that Congress and I are aware of. Can you admit that or would that require you to have a better attitude toward people with a differing preference from your own?
>Remark added more noise than signal to the discussion
Is that because it doesn't align with your world view? If that's not why I'll be glad to consider your defense to this point. I hope it will include some honest reason for not wanting to hear other people's opinion, so much so that you would downvote them for sharing it.
Overall, the irony in just this one comment is largely incriminating in regard to HN rules, and in regard to your own aspirations of yourself, I would assume, given the strict expectations you've set out for me.
it would be great if everybody on HN felt the same, unfortunately this is quite commonplace. read threads on any EV post for instance.
Boston is about the only city in the US that I feel mildly safe walking around the downtown at night.
You mention crime in regards to safety within a city, but there is a study floating around Twitter that factors in traffic fatalities in suburban and rural areas, and the dangers of cars make suburbs and rural areas MORE dangerous that urban areas! Take a look at this article detailing urban vs rural deaths: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-a...
The vast, vast majority of Americans have never even been outside the US (except maybe to Canada, and possibly Mexican tourist spots), let alone lived outside the US in a first-world country, and this includes the OP and most people on HN. It's why reading comments on urbanism on forums like this is both entertaining (because it's so wrong and US-centric) and depressing.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...
> vast, vast majority have never left the US
how does 1/2 of the population having a passport equate to the “vast, vast majority” having never traveled? How does this logic connect?
I'm reading these threads from my walkable town in western Europe for the same reason ;D
That sounds made up on the spot, and borderline xenophobic. Data please.
You experienced a bad compromise of having high density of a city and the high car ownership of suburbia. Like a "stroad," a road that is trying to be a street, it doesn't work.
Try to spend a week in a place with walkable density and no cars: Amsterdam, Oslo, or closer to US, Disney Land.
If you allow the outside to be unpleasant, then people are increasingly going to stay inside which has negative societal ramifications.
The outside needs to be nice, but making inside unpleasant doesn't accomplish that.
ignoring the problem outside exacerbates the issue and eventually leads to an undesirable outside. don’t live with broken windows.
We've driven out nature, we don't have livestock or any animals other than rats and a few birds, we don't transport cargo on carts with wood & metal wheels, we don't live in industrial areas that produce noise pollution, we have laws governing loud music and such.
Above all, we have high quality windows now which block out almost everything but the loudest noises, usually those produced by cars.
cars are not the problem. anybody with any experience in life knows the more stuff and people you cram in a small area, the more noise (an heat for all you climate changers)
The noises that bothered me were the live music from downstairs blasting into my room after midnight, people making a ruckus in the halls outside my room, people yelling on the street, loud emergency services vehicles.
Just like in an airplane it isn’t the sound of the aircraft that is annoying to me but the guy two rows in front talking to his bros.
The nice thing is I live in the suburbs and don’t hear any of the above and I also don’t hear traffic noise. The worst I hear is an occasional landscaping crew or circular saw but those don’t happen at 1 am.
Here's the Not Just Bikes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
This is backwards, you’ve got no choices in a lot of US cities other than to drive.
So everyone is pigeonholed into something you want
your decisions are affecting me, isn’t that the norm now?
For now, not to long ago the left seemed adamant about forcing everyone into sprawling concrete jungles. I give it a few more years at most before they’re back at it pushing to cancel cars and force people to move to high rises.