https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/us/austin-texas-unaffordable-city.html
Who knew that places people actually want to live are not cheap...
Any place that’s “affordable” is only that way because no one else wants to live there. Out of all the trash parts of Texas, Austin is the least trash. So it’s expensive now
I mean, the people who lived there before gentrification wanted to live there and called it home. I guess they don’t count as people in your assessment though.
They don’t count because they are literally from those places and economic realities impede mobility for all but the very talented. That doesn’t really = wanting to live somewhere if you have no say in the matter.
Its just economics, if 100 people wnat to live somewhere and there are 10 houses, only the richest 10 can live. I dont understand the complaint against gentrification, you are not owed the right to live in Austin or Manhattan or whatever. You gotta earn the privilege to live there.
Still better than SF, Seattle, and NYC, so people are still going to flock there.
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Desi people ruined the real estate market
Lots of non Indians in tech, and who gives a shit. I'm sure the native Americans thought the white folks ruined the real estate market too
Most of the city is zoned for Single Family Houses. So allowing 2-plexes and 4-plexes by default would help. https://twitter.com/atx_neoliberals/status/1464989050646016000
As I recall state laws prohibit a lot of denser solutions. We are undergoing the same NIMBY issues people are leaving SF to escape, the only difference is we’re in a less desirable geographical location and we’re not land locked.
The “poors”
Lol. Most overrated city in America at the moment. I have been here 2 years, native SFO. Lemme tell you: Austin is the most in terms of being pretentious. Austin is the only city in TX that thinks it is better than other cities in TX. At least Bay Area has nature,history, landmarks to account for its snobbery
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