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Re:New York City population declined by 5.3% since 2020 by NickM on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:56PM (#38698978)
People don’t believe it, but cities used to be cheap.

I wasn't really aware of this, but was just wondering about it the other day, as it seems like logically they should be cheaper; economies of scale ought to help for both housing and infrastructure, I would think. Interesting to hear that expensive cities aren't necessarily inevitable.

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Re:New York City population declined by 5.3% since 2020 by zachkatz on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:32PM (#38700349)
Basically all the housing in NYC—from the brownstones in Bed-Stuy to the high rises on the Upper East Side—were built during the early 20th century when there was a huge population boom, to provide affordable housing for literally millions of people.

We need to keep doing that. NYC doesn’t need a few thousand more apartments—it needs hundreds of thousands more apartments.

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