jonoh81

That whole are around those towers is a massive waste of land. Glad to see they're coming down, but I have no doubt that what's going to replace them isn't going to be any better in terms of using the space responsibly. 1300 units would be decent if it replaced the footprint of the towers themselves, but unimpressive for 3 different sites. I also don't think this area needs to continue being solely concentrated low-income housing. We need this type of housing, and much more of it, but this isn't the 1960s. We have better ways to integrate low-income housing into neighborhood development. Low-income residents deserve to live in better neighborhoods too

Sure, then support better pay, more benefits, cheaper healthcare, better education, etc. There are tons of reasons people choose not to have kids now, and most of those issues are self-inflicted. And you'll never guess by who.

This is not really a plan but rather an aspirational vision, and those rarely pan out. I would be very surprised if something as dense and urban as that drawing ends up being built at the Eastland site.

Wow, they're willing to spend less than a quarter of the cost of building a single small apartment building on all of Ohio's children. Problem solved.

It's all performative, anyway. None of the modern GOP are followers of Jesus.

Maybe he and his party should stop trying to dismantle public education then, if it is indeed such a good return on investment.

Are we also to assume that Tressel is some kind of moderate? He held fundraisers for Bernie Moreno, for god's sake.

Except the legislature, state supreme court, Congressmen...

Counting the doors, it looks like 14, so it would be a modest increase.

I saw this and wasn't sure if anyone posted it.

Are you objecting to their message, or what was the "no shortage of opinions" part about?

It's all relative, and Columbus is cheap compared to almost anywhere else.

So the name is very ironic.

If the incoming administration actually follows through with its threats, international migration is going to tank historically hard. And if so, Ohio's growth is going to be wiped out, along with that of many other states. So much is uncertain domestically and globally right now.

Source: https://allcolumbusdata.com/canceled-development/ 😉

Almost certainly DOA. The current Republican Party and Ohio legislature is a hate crime factory.

What's the "balanced" view here? Is Trump not promising to do exactly what this article is discussing?

Well, I for one am just shocked by this totally unexpected news.

I mean, this exact reasoning in some form is used for all demolitions of old buildings. "It's outdated." "It's not historic, just old." "It's in the way of progress." We excuse too much laziness and poor projects from developers far too often and I don't understand the desire to do that. If we were getting a dense, mixed-use development out of this, great, but we're not. It's more suburban crap.

I do sort of agree that these attacks are based on Republican weakness, because they don't have any actual policy to run on and so they have to create scapegoats and fear to maintain or increase their power. The problem is that this stuff is clearly finding an audience, and quite a large one. I don't think Republicans would've gone after trans and immigrants if it wasn't a strategy they thought would resonate with a large number of Americans, and they were right. It has absolutely paid off for them. There's a lot to be said about that, but I don't think it's necessarily increasing acceptance.

Amen on much of this. Social conservatism isn't a complex construct, and really requires only a few core things: 1. A revisionist/imaginary view of the past and present (I.E. a rejection of facts or truth), 2. Someone to blame for why the present is so bad or who is standing in the way of the "better" revisionist past being brought back (I.E. scapegoats), and 3. A lack of capacity to hit bottom (I.E. lacking empathy or shame). MAGA is maybe the most perfect representation of these core requirements, but just about all social conservativism shares them.

Oh, for sure that's a big part of it. I wouldn't say all of it because the message they're spreading is largely playing to a very receptive audience, but it's getting a huge boost beyond what it would've otherwise gotten.

Fully disagree. I think trans discrimination is on the upswing, and discrimination against the rest of the LGBQ+ community is also increasing again. You might have more individuals coming out, but the on-the-ground reality is very different. Republicans just ran an incredibly bigoted campaign against trans people and it worked, and there are literally hundreds of anti-trans and anti- LGBQ+ legislationn proposals all across the country. And all the anti-LGBTQ+ stuff in the Project 2025 agenda is likely to be pushed forward over the next several years, and I'm just not expecting much pushback from that. I would also not be surprised if SCOTUS overturns Obergefell once they get the right case. You can't give power to deeply regressive people and then expect things to not regress. And I'm not so sure we can trust younger generations to move us forward anymore. Gen Z seems like it's going in the opposite direction, especially Gen Z males. All their heroes seem to be disinformation and toxic machines like Rogan, Tate, etc.

There is a ton of ignorance about trans people and the surrounding issues, even from the Left. This is partly because there are so few actual trans people, most have never met one in person and so it's easy to get sidetracked by fearmongering and disinformation. I've even debated people on this site whom I would consider to be on the Left and who engaged in arguably discriminatory attitudes related to them. Furthermore, discrimination is not exactly a new thing within the LGBTQ community- it's always been there. Anyone who's used an app like Grindr or Tinder and seen profiles that include phrases like "No fems" or "No Asians" would not be surprised that there are also some who discriminate against trans and others. There's a whole subset of the community that idenifies as conservative and votes for a largely anti-LGB (and TQ+) platform. None of this is new. The only thing two gay men definitely share in common is a biological attraction to other men, not politics, not ideology, etc. The overall community is very accepting and tolerant- much more than the general population IMO- but that is not and has never been universal. The people in the community who would seek to exclude trans, queer or others are doing exactly the same thing that was and is still being done to them, and it's massively hypocritical. But all that said and again, it's absolutely much less common on the Left than Right, and I think the Left is just better at being informed overall and willing to change their views in the face of evidence. It seems once the Right has latched onto something, they will double or triple down in the face of more information they receive that contradicts their view, the exact opposite of what tends to happen on the Left. The bathroom bans, the sports bans, etc. serve one purpose, and that's cruelty. So-called "protection" of one group should never coincide with it being open season on another.

I think this is generous for Florida. Given the rising cost of living there, the insurance collapse, the increasingly bad climate change effects... I think Florida's best growth years are potentially already behind it, or will be in the next decade.