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I'm more than willing to do this than doing nothing, but I am not convinced we should focus on renovation. I feel like we have an irrational affinity to old housing at our own detriment. New housing is not only better but also provides us with a better return on investment. Especially considering the majority of Cleveland's housing stock is wood frame. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/stop-fetishizing-old-homes-new-construction-nice/621012/

It’s called the “housing theory of everything”. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ The iron is red piping scalding hot and we need to strike now by building to keep our surplus, and consequently, housing costs low. Our tag line to companies should be: ”We will house your employees when other cities won’t”.

Sorry for the ignornance But shouldn't I be able to log in to tapatalk with my Urban Ohio Credentials? Because as of right now I can't.

I have! lakewood has been having affordable housing meetings for the last 6 weeks. I’ve written and left an e comment every meeting. could I be doing more?

Any critiques? I’ve been putting them up all over Cleveland. Far East to the far west. I had the trolley image colorized from a Fiverr talent so it would pop more.

My copy just came in the mail!

Hello everyone. Don’t mean to interrupt but I went to the housing affordability meeting in Lakewood but they didn’t have time to read my comment. Where can I post it so that somebody not me gets to read it? Thank you! here it is if you want to read it (reworked it from an a Nolan Gray article) “In an appeal to the strong and proud history of North East Ohio, a land built by the working class, we need to remember how the working class have historically housed themselves. Where the jobs were the land was expensive. Meaning the threshold to own land was reserved exclusively to the wealthy. However, through solidarity and community the working class could outbid the wealthy through a simple means. Density. While a single working class family could not out bid a wealth industry elite, together they could pool their resources to overcome this hurdle and obtain the land for the many rather than the privileged few. Density controls, whether the result of zoning, land-use regulations, or subdivision regulations, break this system, effectively prohibiting the working poor from outbidding the rich for urban land. These policies come in a variety of forms: minimum lot sizes, single-family zoning, parking requirements, minimum unit sizes, etc. But they all require some minimum level of housing consumption—purportedly for the residents own good, in many cases—which means that residents who cannot afford to consume this minimum threshold of urban land cannot consume housing in this neighborhood at all. It is in the capacity of Lakewood city council to return this power to the working class by upzoning all of Lakewood.”

Don’t mean to derail any convo, but I’m new here and I heard there was meet ups from time to time? when’s the next cleveland meet up?

It has gotten absolutely unusable this past year. I used to take the transit to work every day for over a year and absolutely loved it. But it slowly kept getting worse. It started with the smell. It never used to but now it has this overpowering smell of urine and body odor. Then what was originally just a few homeless that kept to themselves has become a full-on shelter where they scream and yell all day and night. Then they began directing at everyone that gets off the train. I bought a new bike so that I could ride the last mile or so after my stop and it was nothing but comments about my bike. The nail in the coffin was a homeless guy covered in scabs that had set shop next to the elevator shouting at people while he had a Pitbull at the end of his leash. I have a deep deep love for public transit and especially rail transit, but I drive to work now. The rapid is no longer useable outside of special occasions. I feel like I've been forced to abandon a lot of my values and its horrible.

Slife straight up went for the jugular. “Everyone that’s talked today has been a well off older white person that lives in expensive housing. I doubt the sincerity of concern over ‘displacing minorities’ and ‘affordability’.” He’s become my favorite council member.

I have heard, and truly believe, this theory. Is there any further reading you can suggest?

https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/apartment-buildings-planned-detroit-shoreway-panned Has this been posted anywhere? Development was stopped by NIMBYs in Detroit-Shoreway

They were off by 1.1 point. Extremely close. Well within margin of error. As far as statistics is concerned. They nailed it. The issue was the razor thin margins in states. And their polls were still within margin of error. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

I love Ohio because it’s one of the few states with true urbanism left. It’s entrenched history with building urban environments is some of the most in the us. It’s why I moved from the sprawl that is Florida. I hope one day we can overcome its political deficits.

Should be more like Huntington with street level retail.

Why do I love this state so much? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk