While NYC has hundreds of subway stations, NJ has 7 Path stations. Renting near one of these Path stations is getting more expensive because there's a lot of demand for easy train access into the middle of Manhattan. Obviously NJ should expand the Path, or make NJ Transit service more frequent and cheaper. It will pay for itself in increased property values.

I’d one of these buildings go up I will be getting something in one of those high rises I will be going down south when I retire but just like with this storm this past week I want something up here I can flee to

Aren't you then just exacerbating the issue of high rents and pricing people out of their neighborhoods? There will always be demand for housing with easy access to NYC. I doubt rent prices in JC would go down from expanding the path. Yes it would increase property values but it would further gentrify areas where people of low income rent and would be forced out. The solution is to build more affordable housing skyward so there is a greater supply of units available in the areas that need lower rents.

Expanding rail access should be top priority. Building the second tunnel to ease the bottleneck for NJT trains is another.

i never understood why i had to wait 20-40 minutes for trains on the weekend.

Anyone care to brag how little they pay compared to that?

My rent is about a quarter of the average JC rent and it still feels too high.

Too damn high

True, but Newark's land around the penn is still highly underdeveloped, so it can definitely add another 20 to 30k apartments in the area.

Yeah, its just as bad in the outer boroughs or upper manhattan... it doesn't make sense since the regions urban areas don't really go to bed and have people going between the neighborhoods

The concept is gentrification is purely performative and ultimately self defeating. It’s primarily a way for we’ll to do liberals to feel good about themselves while perpetuating the kinds of inequities that claim to hate.

There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop people from living where they want. If enough people with the means want something the market will find a way to provide it. Case in point is Brooklyn or Hoboken.

Why can’t progressives just say what they want? Affordable housing! If the median household income is an area is X then the median rent in that area needs to be approximately 0.3X. Simple as that. If the private market can provide that good; they can have at it. If not let the public sector take over. A city like Newark should be issuing bonds and building a 5000 units a year to keep up with demand.

Bottom line is there is no political will to house the masses. Keeping people housing insecure is a core to social experiment we are living in. Let people get comfy in decent homes and who know what else they might demand.

>Why can’t progressives just say what they want? Affordable housing!

I did say that. I literally said it was the solution.

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That never occurred to me before. You are a genius.