> Like what's the typical margin of error on annual census estimates?

they've been getting worse and worse because the census has been estimating that all cities have been losing pop since 2017 or earlier, the 2020 census when they actually counted showed that was not true but they never updated how they're doing the estimates

just fyi no one is being "counted", this is a yearly estimate that the census bureau puts out, they have been predicting all urban areas have been declining since like 2016, except when they actually counted in 2020 it turned out it wasn't true, and they went straight back to estimating declines.

lmao half of Amens voters are going to people that meant to vote for Jeff, of course Jeff wants him gone

There's potentially going to be a lot of black construction workers on this project, it would be odd that they would need this project specifically but the trades have stayed horrifically segregated; the post brothers got around using union labor for their The Poplar project by hiring minority laborers. So big projects like this are the only quick way to get black men into the construction jobs they've been kept out of.

>All of these big power players seem to be focused on this dumbass market east arena when they could invest the billions into disenfranchised communities like North, west, or SW Philly.

I think you're confused what's happening, this is a proposal for a basketball arena, not a charity project. They're willing to invest in center city because they will make money by doing so, building an arena in a bad spot will not make them money.

yeah exactly, it's less nicotine/crap per puff compared to a cig but it's still there. After like a decade of smoking bans "don't worry it's only second hand smoke from like 1/4 a cig" is not very appealing

Guess the "helps quit cigarettes" marketing has worked because a lot of people seem to think vapes aren't like smoking, don't have nicotine, etc, even though they're basically the same

The penn kids that let a slum lord organize them against affordable housing certainly have a lot of heart and time on their hands but, uh, not much more then that.

As for West Philly I felt ok being car free and taking the trolley to 30th when I needed to catch a train. You're right there's a lot of students but it wasn't only students. Also St Joes is apparently moving all the undergrads from the old USciences campus (42nd and Baltimore) to their other campus and making the Ucity campus grad students only

lmao they can't even staff rush hour service anymore and they're giving this pile of shit they don't think anyone will ride $125 million more for "design" after a decade of "designs".

afaik no one including the mall was willing to give up parking for this, makes it seem like they couldn't care less

There's not a difference because anyone can just say they don't feel safe, so you either don't have "enough" parking or you start building more lots and garages.

> Holy shit people, I just want to keep the lots we have. Stop reading into my lost as I want to build more parking lots.

If you want "parking for everyone" like you said we would need to replace all of center city with a parking lot, not sure you've thought through how big cars are.

Also not the cities job to give handouts to drivers that don't want to pay for their cars

look at the area man, there's still like 10 parking lots right around this building, this isn't taking housing away from anyone

This is a "conceptual" rendering by an artist, I don't think these buildings were actually planned. I don't see ones currently under construction on the website.

Also like others said there's about zero chance of a super tall after the pandemic, no one needs that much office space and philly rents are too low for residential.

this was so easily avoidable and yet totally inevitable for Gym. Incredible clown energy

What? Congestion has nothing to do with this, people speeding and driving recklessly are the issues, thats why the speed cameras are reducing crashes so drastically

If you let people drive dangerously and illegally then taking a handful of cars off the road won't make a difference

the threat to bikers and pedestrians is literally cars, investing in transit doesn't change that. Enforcing traffic laws against people driving like maniacs is the starting point for "giving a shit"

> People run across 4 lanes there constantly

if people are crossing like this all the time it means the crossings are straight up designed incorrectly, but OTIS/Streets probably think doing it right could maybe slow down traffic so it's not worth it compared to people being killed.

The driver was also clearly going too fast for a heavily pedestrian area if they killed someone but I'm sure they'll get a "it's not you're fault" and go right back to driving dangerously

The joke I'm making is that the population has been growing the last 10 years or so. The big secret is that landlords (and businesses) are always greedy and will charge as much as they think they can. Higher demand lets them charge more and still get renters

Any reason you suppose landlords have gotten so much greedier over the last 10 years or so?

>Gauthier put out a statement saying that she was somewhat disappointed that's what it took to build more housing

But that's "what it took" because she didn't back the housing! If she told the developer to ignore the NIMBYs that show up to literally everything (to complain about parking) then they could have done that, but she didn't. And in other instances like 48th and Chester (the "poop" building) she explicitly asked the ZBA to deny a variance for affordable apartments so the developers would build luxury townhomes instead.

I do agree that she's been fairly good on non housing issues

Gauthier has NIMBY'd tons of affordable units in her district and tried to illegally block the Ucity townhome redevelopment instead of actually help the residents. She even helped turn 70 affordable units into a parking lot at 5200 Warrington as she knew the Ucity news about 70 units being lost was about to be announced publicly. She is almost as bad as Clarke and being a "close ally" with her is a big red flag on housing.

Gym was just talking about tax credits and getting everyone to work together for "equity" which is fine I guess, but what does that mean in practice?

Credit to Rhynhart for pointing out that they city owns thousands of vacant lots that we could build housing on, relying on for profit developers to give away money to poor people is going to run into the very obvious problem that if they don't make money they won't build anything which makes gentrification worse, when the city could just give out the subsidies directly.

MQS has a mixed record, she seems to know that TOD and mixed income bonuses are good ways to increase affordable housing but also implemented a really bad inclusionary zoning bill for her district that prevented a lot of construction because the numbers didn't work. She's been making some good twitter posts recently but we'll see how that goes as the campaign continues

Gyms statement just seems like a buzz word list without substance.

>Parker acknowledged that gentrification — which she defined as “when newer, wealthier residents move into historically poor or working class neighborhoods and price out long-time residents” — is happening in areas of the city many people never thought it would reach.

Parker seems like the one that misses the mark the most. Gentrification is people getting priced out of fancy neighborhoods and moving to the poorer one next door, you can't prevent that with renter protections and trying to force developers to give away cheap housing because there's going to be poorer people moving out/selling anyway. in a growing city any solution is going to be construction based, trying to freeze the city in amber is going to make everything worse

A concerning amount of the push back to the sixers and every other project seems to think everything in the city is built by some sort of central planning committee with public money.

> There’s only so many empty lots you can build on before you have to start buying existing buildings and remodeling or demolishing them

Saying this is a problem would imply people should never be able to sell their homes or move or anything, somehow the "anti gentrification" crap always comes back to shoving minorities into ghettos

>You can only build y amount on x amount of land

There's this great "new" technique of putting houses on top of each other that would let us build more :)