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Funny did you also build that 4-bedroom house?

Relevance?

Was it designed to house many people AND provide services?

Another case where it would have helped if you read the article…

"Renters who’ve seen new apartment buildings completely transform the city around them may be disappointed that rents remain among the highest in the country. But it’s also remarkable that rents have been essentially flat at a time when the city’s population, job base and incomes have been growing at among the fastest rates in the country."

The issue isn’t whether rents in Seattle have gone up or stayed the same. The issue, and the whole reason we’ve been debating for the past two months, is whether market deregulation causes rents to go down to affordable levels and clearly it does not in places like LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver.

Now for a point that will no doubt throw you into a brand-new temper tantrum…

Seattle has added all that housing you crow about NOT in the R1s but as infill. We can do better than them in LA because we have much more space like that on which to build.

If you care so much about housing supply and making rents more affordable, again, why are you against the vacancy tax which worked well in Vancouver?

"We can spend 40-50 years in R&D trying to green the suburb or we can do what we know already works." None of you tech sycophants can actually address the issue at hand. You just repeat things you don’t understand from Elon Musk.

Yeah, okay.
Turns out the annoying poster I referred to was S———. He could be an idiot, but if it weren’t for his "asking prices mean nothing" bleating then I never would have looked into hedonic pricing and, more importantly, I wouldn’t have stumbled onto a technique for unlocking individual R packages to increase my overall understanding of R.
That’s why I’m here; any poster here, idiot or genius, might send my brain careening in an interesting way it wouldn’t have otherwise. I am not at all interested in the we/they/us/them stuff.

Yeah I heard your spiel, but "technology is always improving" is not a great pitch. Battery technology will get better and I welcome that, but batteries will always bear a considerable cost in emissions and rare metals. We can spend 40-50 years in R&D trying to green the suburb or we can do what we know already works.

Interesting how the San Gabriel Valley continues to be the urban friendly, transit welcoming in LA over the San Fernando Valley despite its actually city limits being a large chunk of the SFV. Might have to do with the higher Asian population which are used to public transit.

I refer to the UCLA professors’ opinion as further evidence, IN ADDITION TO, the market data.

A couple of months ago when we were debating my side’s point that adding more luxury housing does not cause rent to trickle down, someone shared data about how Seattle’s rent stayed high despite all the new housing they’ve added, which you laud whenever you want to make a point about their transportation.

I posted below, in this thread, about how Vancouver had the exact same outcome after building tons of housing.

Don’t forget that brilliant Rick Perry moment of yours two months ago when you linked us to home price data in your crappy neighborhood that showed prices WENT UP following all that luxury construction on the boulevards. Whoops indeed, Transplant Trash nearly died laughing.

You post nothing other than tired talking points about how more supply leads to lower prices and rents because you want to see upzoning in your area so you can flip your crappy R! house to a developer. Home values go up in run-down areas like yours and down in the well preserved HPOZs. One size rules cannot fit all.

Point is no need for any upzoning, and all the problems that brings, if it isn’t going to help with affordability. If we need more housing for other reasons, like our growing tech industry, we have plenty of space for that on the corridors in LA.

We visited the home and it is stunning and a fantastic buy. Discover Whittier…There are some amazing buys and architectural gems hidden in College Heights and Friendly Hills. And yes…I can see Catalina, Long Beach and Newport Beach from our Mid Century in the hills here.

That is a fantastic idea. Just don’t waste any time following through on it. The city council (in an effort led primarily by Paul Koretz and David Ryu and with followers on the council ) is STILL angling to ban as many people as they can from building ADUs , affordable housing and homeless crises and State law be damned. The latest estimate I’ve come across is that there are 17,494 homeless CHILDREN in the LAUSD system and our local government continues to work solely at the behest of the wealthy NIMBY’s and it is just sickening.

Yep you’re right Constituents. All the money is being scrapped off the top. I saw it first hand. By the time the developers are paid millions ( the city really on lets their favorite developers build homeless housing, you have to be one of their preferred developers otherwise you don’t get crap from them), and then fancy architects are paid a grip to come come up with fancy designs for every building as if they really have to have a brand new design for every building, and then all the high priced executives that run the non profits make their "consulting fee" and administrative fees, all then all the white coats Dr’s etc get their cut then they are left with a measly $500/mo for homeless housing, no money left for the actual homeless. Who the hell is going to house a homeless in their ADU, a spare room, an apartment or whatever for $500. City says their motto is "housing first" but it’s really housing last after everyone else gets paid first. And they r still getting paid million to do this work with no results. That’s why so many people are still on the street. Yeah 30% of homeless are mentally ill, and another 20% don’t even want to come off the street, but that still leaves 50% that you could help immediately! That would make a big difference even if you got those 50% off the street. One big fat SCAM!