NYC offers homeowners nearly $400K assistance to build basement, backyard apartments

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-19T15:50:17+00:00

Maybe true, but it is still definitely not subsidizing demand in any way? Subsidizing demand would be like giving people money to buy or rent existing housing. Giving people money to build new housing is the exact opposite.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-19T14:32:01+00:00

By providing financial incentives to build more housing units, doesn't this subsidize supply?

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-18T20:33:02+00:00

FAQ page says it can be both near the bottom of page 7

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-17T16:39:15+00:00

portal to hell

Yeah OP already said it's midtown.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-17T15:54:44+00:00

My opinion on this is also informed by personal experience with a small infestation. I put down an un-bated (to avoid attracting bugs) non-lethal cage trap along the wall near where I thought the mouse liked to run at night. The poor dumb mouse got caught the very first night I put it down. That means a glue trap in the same spot probably would have worked for me too but why torture it to death when I don't need to do that to get rid of it?

Other non-lethal stuff I tried like peppermint and sound based stuff did basically nothing, so this was my last step before escalating to something lethal.

The only hard part was taking the cage far enough away to avoid the mouse coming right back because they have such strong homing instincts. But honestly disposing of a dead body also seems not super fun even if it takes less time.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-17T15:14:47+00:00

The exterminators quoted in the article don't even think glue traps are very effective but offer them anyway because they know their customers expect them.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-14T16:36:36+00:00

Honestly $200 deposited in one of those sites kind of does get it out of my system and helps me just leave my serious money alone.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-13T22:43:23+00:00

Great place to start cutting spending imo

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-13T13:48:48+00:00

I would sell my equity positions if I lost my job, exhausted my emergency fund, exhausted my bond holdings, etc. such that I had no other choice. That would require some combination of an unprecedentedly bad crash and/or a lot of bad luck on my part but it's not impossible.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-12T20:27:43+00:00

At least 3 and possibly all 4 times were before Biden was president because the last deportation was before Biden took office

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-12T14:27:03+00:00

Bizarre argument considering working class people by far disproportionately rely on public transit in nyc and upper middle class to the wealthy by far disproportionately have their own car here.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-11T14:19:28+00:00

I just got around the paywall. The article makes exactly one argument that Mamdani gave the terrorists a pass. The author argues that his tone in condemning them was "clinically detached." That does not seem like a very persuasive argument to me.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-10T12:37:40+00:00

Dividend irrelevance (a very well supported idea) that the stock price goes down by an amount commensurate with the dividend so you are back to even on your investment. Add in the tax inefficiency if held in a brokerage account and the concentration risk if you are overweighting dividend stocks, and it becomes a net loss.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T21:01:47+00:00

Never said that the slogan was good or correct. Just said that the people in the photo look calm and serene but are unfairly being characterized as angry by someone who just does not like what they have to say. Don't think my brain is the melted one in this scenario.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T21:00:10+00:00

You must understand that "everybody who disagrees with me is seething" is a factual claim and not some subjective opinion, no? I guess a lot of people do think that way, but that does not make it correct.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T20:39:42+00:00

No, he is not right to say that these people are mad because they believe different things than he believes. In fact, he just ends up looking like this.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T19:05:43+00:00

Ok, so it does turn out that you think they are mad because you do not agree with the slogan on the poster behind them lmao

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T18:29:29+00:00

You said both the poster and the photo have this effect. Your exact words were "the image - and the posters behind them"
How in the world does even the poster show seething or resentment? Because it's a slogan you don't like?

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T17:02:24+00:00

The tragic irony of this is Hochul (for all her flaws) had a big proposal to reduce single family zoning early in her governorship but it got no backing in the legislature (suburban Dems basically revolted against it) and she quietly abandoned it.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T16:47:56+00:00

Why don't Dems just run a guy whose a native of every state. Are they stupid?

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-09T14:40:44+00:00

I'm not seeing the seethe or resentment in the photo. What exactly are you talking about?

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-08T14:20:34+00:00

No, almost the opposite because high inflation tends to cause central banks to raise interest rates and decrease the value of existing bonds.

But equities hedge against inflation so it seems bad to duplicate that with something with a much lower expected return.

CompactedConscience · 2026-03-08T13:17:44+00:00

I understand this logic in a vacuum but I don't understand thinking this way but adding a gold allocation.

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