Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
by beepbooptheory on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:39AM
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I don't want to throw the dictionary at yeah but gentrification is the word we generally use to talk about a downside to maybe a more general effort in urban development. This is really really weird hill to die on.. Just pick another word, I don't think you'd lose the nuance you are trying to inject here. As it stands its just needlessly provocative, a Twitter-hot-take vibe that is generally frowned upon around here.
Also (imo) don't link to yourself like this! Especially when its to just another short comment in the same thread! Why do that??
Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
by triceratops on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:18AM
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> don't link to yourself like this... Why do that??
I've been told off (by dang, no less) before for copy-pasting comments. There's no winning it seems.
The downsides of not building new housing at all are even worse than "gentrification" and they fall even heavier on the poor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434470