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objectimpermanence t1_j9ps0l6 wrote

Reply to comment by EyesOnImprovement in Want to know why NY metro housing is expensive? Answer in NYTimes OP-ED by Blecher_onthe_Hudson

Genius.

Hopefully our leaders keep this in mind the next time there's a shortage of food, fuel, or practically any other commodity.

Egg prices skyrocketing because an avian flu outbreak has killed a bunch of chickens? Clearly we shouldn't try to figure out how farmers can produce more eggs. Let's just institute price controls and the shortage will sort itself out. So what if this leads to more people going hungry? We can't let the capitalists win!

/s

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EyesOnImprovement t1_j9qgtgm wrote

Avian flu isn't the reason I can't find reasonably priced food downtown. Avian flu didn't close Tender Shoot Farms or the Polish deli, or the three Bodegas within a block or two of my house.
I guess we didn't build enough 4 story luxury rentals with ground floor rental on Newark. I'm sure any day now they'll fill with family owned restaurants and grocers with fresh affordable produce as the market rises to meet my needs

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FloatingWeight t1_j9sbvs4 wrote

You’re right building literally no additional commercials units or housing means that these existing bodegas would be there forever. 🙄

You think the multi million dollar brownstones DT JC 10 min from lower manhattan would be available for pennies if they didn’t build more dense housing ?

I forget, that worked for soho right? Still the cheap drug artist den ? I mean they’ve been fighting rezoning since forever. The village? They’re still affordable, I mean don’t see any new luxury buildings there so they must be

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EyesOnImprovement t1_j9twmx5 wrote

Boston, Westchester, Avian flu and now Soho. Funny how we have to keep switching analogies to make the arguments work.
Meanwhile, right here in Jersey City, I can't get a decent lunch and the luxury renters are getting priced out.

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FloatingWeight t1_j9up163 wrote

They’re all examples proving you wrong, you’re just too stubborn to listen There’s also studies but you don’t believe in science either.

At the end of the day you somehow believe that if we didn’t build any new buildings Jersey City would still be cheap, which flies in the face of any reason, logic, studies, real world examples and common sense.

You’re never going to be convinced you’re wrong, so why argue with you.

Also if you can’t find a decent lunch that’s on you lmao

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