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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by pclowes on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:39AM (#47435021)
NYC is fairly high density. Has stopped building massive new skyscrapers and has water on two sides. It is also a tier 1 global city culturally AND economically. Its not really reasonable to expect to be affordable.
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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by mmooss on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:19PM (#47441881)
It's been affordable for many generations, a destination for opportunity for the poorest people, including immigrants. It's only recently that things have become so absurd.

> water on two sides

Do you mean Manhattan, one of the five boroughs? It's an island.

> stopped building massive new skyscrapers

When? Why?

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