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  1. Rhys in Perry Mason was outstanding.
  2. tbone_

    NIMBYism

    SRO could absolutely be helpful for that.
  3. tbone_

    NIMBYism

    We can fight for it all we want. And I agree it’s a good premise: more people being able to afford a decent/appropriate place to live is better. Slorch is also right: ain’t no guarantees and you aren’t owed anything - you want it, go earn it. The problem is this: the only time a market-rate rental housing unit gets built in this country is when someone like me (a developer) and a capital partner (usually big institutional investor like a life co, PE group, REIT, Family office, etc) thinks they can make money at it. The idea that more units being delivered brings down rents is accurate but only to a point. Guess what deters investment in new units more than anything? Falling rents. Same thing with for sale housing. Except it’s usually a public homebuilder building. They probably don’t have project specific financing but they do answer to Wall Street, who will put the kibash on bustling new units when prices are falling. Oh, and guess what happens when house prices fall… they all fall. So we aren’t getting price relief without every US homeowner’s balance sheet taking the hit. I’ve only seen two times in my life when prices fell - the S&L wipeout and the GFC. I don’t think anyone wants those again, though they would help housing prices and rent.
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    NIMBYism

    Interesting article. Wish I could be a fly on the wall listening to all those BH folks squirm. As someone who has been a residential housing developer for nearly 30 years, I constantly chuckle at all the hand wringing over the “housing affordability crisis”. We can talk about encouraging building, passing laws, relaxing red tape, blah blah fucking blah. But the reality is there is no solution for the “housing affability crisis” that is remotely palatable to the populace or politicians. You want affordable housing? Go list your house for 50% of what it’s worth. Don’t like that idea much huh? Didn’t think so.
  5. This. They should have just let these dipshits go forward with their plan. They would have lasted 10 minutes. Maybe. But honestly, what have they actually done that is illegal besides talk a bunch of shit and fuck around like morons?
  6. That’s cool but you used to post better pics
  7. This is truth. And in my house it extends to IDs, passports, credit cards, diamond jewelry, whatever the fuck. If it could be lost, it probably is.
  8. Make it a George Thorogood Day - one bourbon, one scotch, one beer. Repeat as necessary.
  9. Shouldn’t that have to go on the Fox News scroll too? Def should go on all social media starting with X.
  10. Shouldn’t that have to go on the Fox News scroll too?
  11. Random Tarantino wannabe movie called Too Late. Prime I think. Has this like 10 min long scene near the beginning where some slightly whacked out hottie walks around with no pants on the whole time. Movie is meh but this scene is pretty awesome. You bush lovers will rejoice.
  12. So Nvidia went to the Enron school of accounting?
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