I used to have Transit, but the Android version stopped working (while the iPhone version was fine). I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled and updated, but it was still broken (also as evidenced by the recent reviews from the time). Since I learned that Google Maps has the real time tracking now I haven’t looked back.
Hudson Heights artist studio turned glam co-op seeks $1.3M
In the following Street View image, I believe the windows with flower boxes belong to the apartment in question. Those windows are on the Riverside Drive side of the apartment. The entrance to the apartment seems to be the white doorway behind the gray gate and fence.
IMHO the YIMBY’ists error is in putting their faith that the affordability problem in SF is a basic supply and demand situation that can be solved by just increasing the supply.
But what if the demand for SF housing was essentially unlimited? That’s what I believe to be the case. Housing has become an investment vehicle for domestic and international investors. Just like Amazon can keep printing out zillions of shares of stock to be gobbled up, while the stock price still marches higher, any new housing built in SF will have some proportion taken by investors, not to be used/rented, but to be held onto like bars of gold. All the desirable urban centers have witnessed this effect. Indeed Long Island City (Queens NY) has had the most new apartment units built of any neighborhood in the US since 2010 with 10’s of thousands of new units built for a neighborhood of only about 80,000 people. Yet with all that new supply their rents continued to climb, and climb sharply (https://ny.curbed.com/maps/long-island-city-development-boom-construction-map). You could perform the same exercise in NYC overall, as well as other large cities. Building new units, even lots of new units, has not moderated rents in any major cities.
Finally, as others have pointed out, the more that the YIMBY movement succeeds in building more market rate units, the quicker the movement itself will dissolve. The people moving into those new market rate units are not of the same political and social character of the current YIMBY’s. Think of an out of state ‘bro-grammer’ making six figures at Uber and getting wasted on Polk St, not exactly the activist type.
I think YIMBY’s need to think beyond just "Build baby build."
"Affordable housing" is a liberal euphemism for "subsidized housing". And, obviously, everybody wants more "affordable housing", while only 1% of those wanting it are willing to pay the higher taxes needed to pay for the subsidy. Hence, Mitt Romney’s comment about the 47%. Similarly, "transit oriented development" is a liberal euphemism for "high rise at the bus stop". And, once again, the folks who favor TOD are adamant that it not be built near them. For the best example of euphemism versus actual behavior, look up the history of Berkeley and its "open creeks" ordinance. It was hugely popular, was the law of the land for about 10 years, but when the maps were published showing how the rich liberals in the Berkeley hills would not be allowed to rebuild after an earthquake, they went thermonuclear. Hint: it those hill dwellers who didn’t want competition for their homes with a view who made it illegal for San Jose to build in its hills.
Metro Atlanta planning pros convene to find fixes for troubled permitting process
Truth Taron35, take Atlanta out the mix and GA is a suburban/rural country ass state lol. Don’t want to get into politics but I think alot of Abrams supporters and city democrats forget about GA. In their heads GA is Atlanta/metro Atlanta, which it ain’t. Look at those post election heat maps and literally all the counties are red lol.