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CactusBoyScout t1_jcfylhm wrote

Reply to comment by DutchmanNY in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

Unfortunately virtually every major city says the same thing and that’s why this is a problem nationwide. People can’t just all move to Utica where the lackluster economy is the reason for the cheap rent.

Every city/state that saw the slightest influx of people during the pandemic is now saying the same thing: Don’t come here.

It’s not a realistic response to increased demand. Just have to build more housing.

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the_lamou t1_jcfxrt0 wrote

Reply to comment by n3vd0g in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

Most of Austria's social housing stock isn't owned by the government, but rather by private companies who operate a landlords within a tightly regulated system. It's no different than NYC's affordable housing lottery, albeit with a larger percentage of new units being allocated and better regulation. But it's not remotely accurate to say "the government owns the housing." Private landlords own the housing. They just lease it under the government's watch.

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intjish_mom t1_jcfxc4x wrote

Reply to comment by Dont_mute_me_bro in Douglaston residents come out against Hocul’s affordable housing plan by Russianb0t1

assuming you own a home you may not be rich but your doing far better off than a lot of people. even the poorest americans are richer than the majority of poeple in the world. also the middle class really isn't a thing.

people need to learn to live with people that make less than them. you and your children can still do well if there happen to be lower-income people living in an apartment building next to you. if your whole argument is "but we've never had anything other than single-family housing here, my property values may change" is a weak argument.

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filenotfounderror t1_jcfx5qn wrote

Reply to comment by n3vd0g in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

i dont know what that means.

  1. The government doesn't own all the rental property in Austria, though im sure it s subject to local laws.

  2. The Austrian Government has nothing to do with the US government. I am not familiar with Austrian politics, but the US govt is almost entirely dysfunctional at every level, usually on purpose, for a variety of reasons.

  3. i imagine the Austrian housing market in vastly different from the US housing market

  4. Regulating the entire rental market in the US in such a fashion would probably destroy billions, probably trillions of dollars in wealth for mostly retired Americans because housing prices would instantly crater. So on top of being entirely politically unfeasible it also just bad policy. All your doing is stealing for one person to give to another.

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HEIMDVLLR t1_jcfx5aj wrote

Reply to comment by ManhattanRailfan in NY lawmakers say they won't support MTA's planned fare hike for commuters by King-of-New-York

Biking is actually safer the further you get away from Manhattan. The streets are wider and the rare trucks that do show up, stick to the main avenues and boulevards where the businesses are.

Funny thing is those businesses usually have parking lots where the trucks can park away from the street to offload.

The buses are unreliable because the nearest subway station isn’t close by. The bus stops every other block to pickup/drop off passengers. You might have to take a bus in the opposite direction of where you need to go, because that’s how the city planned the routes.

If you drive in these areas you know buses don’t give a fuck about cars, they don’t have a problem cutting you off as they pull away from the curb.

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acmilan12345 t1_jcfvtrw wrote

Reply to comment by k1lk1 in NY lawmakers say they won't support MTA's planned fare hike for commuters by King-of-New-York

This is the part I don’t think this subreddit gets.

There is a certain amount of mismanagement involved in most government entities. Yes, in an ideal world, you would fix all of these problems before giving the MTA money.

But these problems are not easily fixed, and the MTA needs money now. So that money needs to come from somewhere, and legislators are trying to pretend that the MTA can be self-sufficient, which it can’t.

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