Adam Mongrain
@adammongrain
ED, More and Better Housing Canada Montréal, Québec EN/FR
My dumb brain thought gmail had determined that I was writing in Polish and I was wondering what « Talk soon » meant in English
(The author of this joke post is not opposed to public grocery stores)
I joined a fun group of Montreal residents who are apocalyptically angry about bike lanes. A neat thing is that AI has made their blind rage much more legible than the all caps posts they used to drop randomly in newspapers' comment sections.
Indeed, and in Seattle in particular, it can take a minimum of a fivefold increase in density to make access to a given location more affordable than the status quo.
Smith on rent is as good as it gets. Real shame that whoever is in that room gets lied to about it.
An important contribution from Derek Guy's overall oeuvre is giving men like me the license to go for pants that sit as high as Goku's
Revisiting this piece to think through vacancy rate targets. I think this holds in all circumstances?
Rumble in the office chat this morning as I submit the view that the people who live in these houses actually like them
It's what I was getting at with this hyperbolic bit. That you can even believe that you don't have to share air, space and meaning with others will mobilize a set of people against sharing any of those things. Then you find out that the parts were worth less than the sum.
Another insighful and engaging piece. When someone sinks below the ground, the hole they leave behind is large enough for anyone to fall through.
In the meantime because existing home prices follow new construction prices pretty closely, you see old homes at prices that are pegged to new builds in the same neighborhood, and then it's hard to argue that what explains the two appreciation in between sales is a doubling in quality.
Hey why not, I need to feel alive. IMV (housing guy) the vibecession is about housing, especially the retreating quality of services consumed. It's hard to pin precisely, but here, look at this.
Students are simultaneously drivers and victims of surging rental prices. This is an big but otherwise boring and old unit being rented out piecemeal at 695$ per bed, at nine bedrooms. This kind of price signal is going to bend gravity if it sticks.
The reason is that affordability cannot be a charateristic of a unit: it doesn't exist without someone who is paying the rent or the mortgage or whatever other form of housing service the unit can provide. 3/X
Things are looking bleak so you have to keep in mind that adding kimchi to a grilled cheese sandwich can really turn the day around