Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal

Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by noah91734 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @04:52PM (#40229260)

> Ensuring some minimal level of architectural consistency on a dense city block is a good thing.

Check zillow. Of the 32 units for rent in Brooklyn Heights, the cheapest is a tiny $2,600/month studio. The median rent is $4,500/month, and that's for an apartment with one bedroom and one bathroom.

No, I don't think allowing a 200 year old private rule to reduce living space in an age of incredible housing scarcity is good. I could not care less about your architectural consistency when it is part of the reason why people are sleeping on the streets and others are paying most of their income on rent.

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by rwmj on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:32PM (#40229772)

There's zero chance this particular covenant is reducing living space, instead it's preventing some billionaire from building some obnoxious entrance across the existing sidewalk.

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by throwitaway222 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:23PM (#40229655)

The us is huge

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by daedrdev on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:42PM (#40230534)

And the market has shown where people would like to live

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by forgetfreeman on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:52PM (#40230618)

If by like to you mean are forced to to escape poverty...

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by nradov on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:52AM (#40232827)

Are you claiming that it's impossible to escape poverty by moving to North Dakota and getting a job in the oil & gas industry?

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by forgetfreeman on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:17AM (#40233873)

Are you claiming oil patch jobs aren't a rounding error per capita? Lets be clear here, you're for real claiming that a career track that employs fewer people in the continental US than Pizza Hut is relevant to a discussion of rural poverty?

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by hanniabu on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:05AM (#40233174)

Without sacrificing health working with chemicals

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by dann0 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:42AM (#40232759)

No, people go to where the resources and opportunities are.

Markets are for maximising profits. Housing should not be a market.

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by dangus on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:33PM (#40230927)

There are a lot of bad zoning laws and covenants out there that encourage housing scarcity. This is not one of them.

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by jmoss20 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:15PM (#40230766)

"sleeping on the streets" and "living in Brooklyn Heights" are hardly the only two options here.

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Re:Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal by noah91734 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:03PM (#40240194)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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