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Old 09-03-2012, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Lakewood OH
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I'm kind of surprised. Projects are a profoundly regressive "solution." In Chicago, they are tearing them down, aren't they?
Oh yes, I think the last one went down last year but they were empty for quite some time. I am afraid the Portland neighborhoods where the new buildings are going up are going to have similar overcrowding problems of course on a much smaller scale. The people in the area are already pointing out the lack of space needed to accomodate everyone.

It may be a stretch to call them "projects" but really, overcrowding is overcrowding.
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Old 09-04-2012, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Anyone constructing multifamily housing today either builds high to spread the cost of elevators across many units, or low.. say 3 stories .. so that an elevator isn't required. I doubt that the affordable housing multistory units are more than 3 or 4 stories. Socially it is better that these developments are scattered around the city and are low-rise. [Back in the 70s DH & I went to China with an urban development group. In Shanghai we met with their counter parts where there was a discussion of family housing. The preferred low rise, nothing higher than a grandmother's shout, because it made supervising children easier.]

During the run-up of the housing boom many couples left rental housing and bought. Landlords had a lot of vacancies and no pricing power. Many of those couples lost their homes and are now back in the rental market. Landlords have fewer vacancies and lots of pricing power.
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