Renderings unveiled for Old Fourth Ward’s Howard School redesign
Perception. The 1980’s Atlanta I grew up in was far more dangerous than the one now. However, other than Wayne Williams who wasn’t hanging out in my neighborhood I had no fear of someone abducting me or trying to molest me. Now people look at their iPhone and are oblivious to the world around them and also are oblivious to automobiles while walking. I didn’t have to worry about that either because these things didn’t exist and the population of the area wasn’t as vibrant as it is today. I doubt there are many parents that are letting their kids ride their bike from Virginia Highland to Cabbagetown or East Lake this day and age like I did even though doing so is safer. That was my point. Not that there are kidnappings but these things do happen and the perception is there and parents today are much more involved in every aspect of their child’s life then in past generations as well. The kids that live next to us can’t even leave the yard without the parents freaking out and wondering where they are. It is a generational difference.
Protestors ask city to crack down on Airbnb rentals
Good luck trying to find any positive coverage of landlord issues on Curbed. Even though it’s generally very developer- and housing-friendly, landlords are always the evil bogeyman and tenants are always poor, downtrodden angels. Unless the tenant is Jake Paul. Then they’ll take a few snipes at him.
Are ‘dorms for adults’ and coliving just an older housing idea, SRO, by another name?
I’m in favor of more types of housing to meet the specific needs of the residents. Historically, there was more variety: Room and Boards, Resident Hotels, Cubicle Hotels, etc. But they were largely "zoned" out of existence in part because other people didn’t think it was appropriate for adults (particularly women) to not cook and clean their own places. A great book that discusses this type of housing is "Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States" by Paul Groth"
LA closing in on new rules to build homeless housing faster
Did you run out of lithium before you wrote this? Holy shit settle down, you would be more enjoyable to talk with, if you weren’t so damn sensitive about these topics. So what stringent "conservative" registration methods are you talking about??
The "progressives" already gave 600+ Thousand (up to 2 million) illegal immigrants driver licenses and even proposed letting illegal immigrants vote to increase their voting base. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-motor-voter-act/ "February 2016, California officials announced that more than 600,000 undocumented people were granted driver’s licenses in 2015"
Also, Judge Andrew Napolitano says that "if you are an illegal alien in California, get a driver’s license, register to vote, you can vote in local, state, and federal elections in California and those votes count."
LATimes wrote an article showing the correlation between the government and Affordable-housing problems but you don’t think it exists?? http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1002-welch-affordable-housing-20151002-story.html. That economist was no free-market extremist, it was Paul Krugman.
Yes there are NIMBY’S and Non-NIMBYS but that’s not the entire story here. Missing from your perspective is the vital role the government plays into this dynamic and the increasingly incompetent policies our government has purposed & implemented in the past few years. It’s okay to have counter ideas and opinions so present them instead of acting like a pissy petulant millennial, pal.
Antebellum Roswell home guns for oldest, greenest in America
I toured the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens last week in Miami built by James Deering, "a lifelong bachelor", with the assistence of his "friend and artistic director" Paul Chalfin. I wondered as well about their relationship. Chafin even had his own bedroom suite in the house. The designated ladies guestrooms were on another floor, even.