@alex u should click thru that page. its so shitty and there's this point where it says "it takes a coffee shop to build a village" and its the most blatantly nasty thing ever to a point where im like "actually, u guys are so evil and upfront about …
are u using a 1/3 of income for the $700 a month or a 1/2 of income? because i think the 1/2 of income is becoming the new evil capitalist standard
(at least thats what my dad ((the evil capitalist rich landlord)) told me)
i wonder if $15/hr minimum wages were in place, if you could create affordable well-built high density housing that would be actual nice, like we might fantasize fancy european countries having.
the american dream of a house on its own is still deep…
@alex and yeah the inhabitants they are targeting (middle class "mildly creative" corporates) have different tastes than you or me. and so the city around them changes to fit their needs. the market changes. kookie churches of elvis and all ages pu…
apartments vs condos is a VERY important distinction in that one is income property in perpetuity (rent) and one is an easy one-time investment flip (developer and investors make percentage on one-time sale).
these new hyper inflated profit-only d…
nah but seriously, if we cared about portland - and believe me i'm so heartbroken about what happened to what i consider the essential shift in cultural soul of that city -, we should be lobbying and running for office and making our collective voic…
yeh they been foot-printing neighborhoods and giving all sorts of PDC discounts and all sorts of she for long time.
fuck - i remember what downtown was like before the Pearl District....
now, if cheesy baby boomer capitalists are gonna get their w…
luxury apartment, loft style layouts, beautiful views of the city or mountain, balcony, with gym, ping pong table, pool table, pool, rooftop lounge, secured private parking, subway sandwich restaurant at street level, nail salon, starbucks, minutes …
i figure it like this: your friends might get annoyed but ultimately its not them but other people that will be doing the bulk of the giving.
if you are making art for just your friends, then yeah, asking for 12 to 40 k from them is a bit weird. t…
i got a job in the art world! all i do is let people into this warehouse building to do construction work a few days a week and the lady who is developing the space into a gallery and art studios is paying me $3000 a month!
thank god i dont have to…
its true, the above article doesn't show many examples of how the costs of labor get absorbed in lots of other ways besides the prices of goods going up, so if you wanted to not believe it, you could. but i would argue that -though it seems logical …