I live in a relatively small city in Oregon, and I live in a building that was an abandoned hotel. The owners bought the property, renovated the building, and turned all the rooms into studio apartments. I think it's great and should be a more common practice.
Those multiple staircases come in handy when there's a fire! Also, having a 2nd elevator comes in handy when your autistic friend accidently leaves a homemade bomb in the elevator and it doesn't get fixed...
$1900 a month is still major profit, and unaffordable for many, let's get real. Hydro and water cost like $100/month in Vancouver; maximum. Random repairs won't be that much a month, probably a couple hundred to a couple thousand annually max.
In Evanston, Illinois, there is a formal process for owners of neighboring properties to object to new development. Many owners of single family units will object to a multi-unit property next door.
Horrible solution. It just look poor. We need to fix capitalism not to end middle class. Go with that as a solution in no time everything will be like japan in 1ft apartamente.
This is really silly Yimby stuff, what developer wants to get involved with building and then trying to offload a low budget/affordable housing option.
Sir, nice try, but your argument is totally invalid. It is absolutely possible to have a long corridor and more than one bedroom apartments. Come on! In almost all apartments I know about in Eastern Europe have windows only on one side of the building. The apartment blocks you showed are actually very nice pieces of architecture. The one single reason why cities in the US are ugly is that you have too much space! The places that look more like European urban planning are confined to a limited space, like Manhattan. Therefore the comparison of Manhattan to Gamla Stan sort of makes sense, but it does not make any sense to compare Gamla Stan to Austin. And please do me a favour and have a look on Google Earth on the neighbourhood of Rågsved, south of Stockholm and tell me it's so beautiful. The reason why we build cities that are not pretty is one: the invention of an automobile.
Just came back from Copenhagen and literally all apartments outside of the city center look like the American ones :D The week before I was in Vancouver btw. Beautiful city. I didn't know these high story buildings were filled with primarily 1 bedroom apartments. No wonder why prices are skyrocketing there.
1) Even with a central internal hallway and windows on one side, why can't 2BR or 3BR apartments be made simply by stretching along the wall? Hallway; internal rooms of living room, kitchen, and bathroom; bedrooms; external wall. 2) I was going to ask "why not have an external walkway, with stairs at each short end of the building, and apartments running through with windows at opposite sides " but then I realized this always require a long building and land assembly. Unless you make the apartments parallel to the street rather than perpendicular. 3) but what about fire escape stairs?
Vienna is not really a good example. It used to be the imperial capital of the Austrian-Hungarian empire and was one of the very few cities that lost population throughout most of the 20th century. Non-market housing is not responsive to demand. So the kind of apartments they make and the number are entirely politically dependent. It is much better to use the same land for market housing to drive down prices.
I sold a couple properties in 2020 and I'm waiting for a house crash to happen so I buy cheap. In the meantime, I've been looking at stocks as an alt., any idea if it's a good time to buy? I hear people say it's a madhouse and a dead cat bounce right now but on the other hand, I still see and read articles of people pulling over $225k by the weeks in trades, how come?
You're not doing anything wrong, you just don't have the required skillset to profit off a down market, folks that are making profit in this market are pros and experts with in-depth knowledge and skillset.
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
I wanted to add a "granny flat" to my property (a small 1 bedroom house with a kitchenette) for my mom to live in. I was quoted $400k from a builder -- asked another builder and got a quote of $475k. Yeah... I guess that dream is dead.
I hope we figure out all the housing. I need everyone that wants to be in the cities, in the damn city! Quit developing further and further out and destroying the smaller communities we still have left out here
Because School Boards made ‘Choice schools’ everywhere: diminishing local schools and encouraging ‘cross boundary’ school attendance. Kids used to walk to their local school.
Stop letting foreigners buy land. Stop flooding in Asians and africans and every other non European to please Zionists and bankers. They have land in their countries to live on.
Housing has to be cheap and it can’t be cheap AND profitable. Preparing for hurricanes isn’t profitable, it’s just necessary. Building homes isn’t profitable anymore, it’s just necessary. . .
Too many people use buying then Selling a home as a way to help save for retirement. You can’t expect people betting their lives on the thing they bought being sellable to just sink even more borrowed money into building an ugly quadplex in a neighborhood. Also, this kind of property NEEDS to be owned by those that live there or all living space will be owned by a minority.
Wait so.. If supply goes up then prices go down? How incredibly anticapitalist! Nonmarket housing is a super interesting idea, but the main problem is supply.
... landlords would have to compete with non-market housing Well, wasn't the competition the jam of the system? Ain't the capitalist always interested in taking risks and innovating to make their product more luring? 😂
Fun fact: the thumbnail features a building with stones symbolizing the heads of the aristocracy who were beheaded during peace talks between Sweden and Denmark. Fun!
I almost got hit by a teenager while walking my 3 kids to school. She started turning left on an unprotected left turn and didn't bother to look for pedestrians in the crosswalk. I'm sure if I wasn't there she would have hit 1 or all 3 of them. She was in a jeep and probably only stopped because I am tall enough to be seen. We still walk but I wouldn't let my kids walk alone not due to strangers but cars.
does the law even necessitate hallways between the staircases? I assume yes, because otherwise the fire safety justification makes no sense. but why does the requirement stop at 2?
