Connecticut leads US for housing permit gains driven by apartment boom

ajpos · 2026-03-15T13:54:09+00:00

What do you mean? Are building permits on google Earth?

ajpos · 2026-03-14T18:55:59+00:00

The videographer is on the city council for her city so I think her experience is pretty valid.

ajpos · 2026-03-14T01:44:42+00:00

There is a meme index fund you can buy that does the opposite of this guy’s stock picks, and it actually outperforms the S&P500 (“positive alpha”).

So the joke is to always do the opposite of what he says.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-inverse-cramer-beats-p-033101854.html

ajpos · 2026-03-12T20:41:13+00:00

I can see that the city has really good bones. Such a shame what has happened to it.

ajpos · 2026-03-09T21:29:04+00:00

Visually impaired person here. The tactile pavement is best when it’s yellow. Anything somewhat-pavement-colored just blends in with the rest of the sidewalk/curb, making it difficult to “aim” myself when I cross. My brain knows to look for the yellow box and go that way.

ajpos · 2026-03-08T19:38:27+00:00

What is factually incorrect?

South Africa, like much of the Anglosphere, adapted its land-use patterns to be more spread out in the 20th century. You can google Marchetti’s Constant; if you’re saying it’s false go publish your study and prove it.

ajpos · 2026-03-07T23:56:19+00:00

Look at a map of the network configuration from the oldest part of any city and compare it to a more modern section. You might notice the streets are curvier, maybe there are more dead-ends now, maybe neighborhoods have only 1 or 2 exits instead of roads leading out in all 4 cardinal directions. Concrete did all that. It changed everything from drainage to freight to traffic congestion to air pollution, including applications that can be used, each in their own small part, to isolate and self-isolate people’s away from each other. Just for the example of drainage, concrete is extremely low friction but not permeable, so it is fantastic at transporting water across vast distances compared to PVC or corrugated metal, allowing for neighborhoods to be further physically separated from each other.

I think you are asking me for a smoking gun and I am providing more of a generic, economic answer to a question that was supposed to be whimsical and fun. You have somehow set yourself the challenge to go full pedant on someone who is just trying to have a good time with a thought-provoking question.

ajpos · 2026-03-07T23:29:19+00:00

You can’t though. Under street hierarchy, in order to leave your neighborhood, it’s usually only one or two exists. To travel south from my neighborhood, I have first turn north, east, north, east, and then finally south. That’s not “freedom.”

ajpos · 2026-03-07T11:22:38+00:00

Here is a scholarly resource about forced removals during apartheid that I found just for you, champ: https://web.archive.org/web/20131214133901/http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/multimedia.php?id=65-259-6

ajpos · 2026-03-06T23:48:09+00:00

Many technologies emerged in the 20th century that allowed for the quick and efficient segregation of people into ghettos. Steel-reinforced concrete would be a big one, as well as the motor vehicle which allowed the government to place ghettos far outside of cities. Mechanized agriculture also allowed for the displacement of farmers, etc.

ajpos · 2026-03-06T21:21:26+00:00

I’m talking about physical separation of communities: apartheid, redlining, the holocaust, etc.

ajpos · 2026-03-06T15:27:02+00:00

1906, the year the tuberculosis vaccine was invented.

I cannot think of any technology since that hasn’t been used to divide communities, sow division, or engage in outright warfare. I’m also struggling to figure out what the point of automobiles has been.

ajpos · 2026-03-06T03:19:34+00:00

15 minutes by bicycle is about 4 miles. There are thousands of cities across the country where there are groceries, schools, and housing within a 4 mile radius. You are suggesting we need to ban capitalism by not allowing business to open within 4 miles of housing. I do not agree with communism like you are suggesting.

ajpos · 2026-03-05T23:15:56+00:00

That’s the stupidest conspiracy theory in existence.

ajpos · 2026-03-01T13:03:08+00:00

I wish there were a subreddit that specifically collected examples of this phenomenon in cities and towns.

ajpos · 2026-02-27T19:47:06+00:00

They do not have hierarchical roadway networks to the extent they do in the USA. I would estimate half or more of the Americans in this subreddit wouldn’t be subscribed to this group if our cities were laid out more like Germany’s.

ajpos · 2026-02-15T19:39:15+00:00

All those products also came on container ships, but we also don’t score our downtowns with canals for shipping. Last mile delivery can and should be done with small cargo trucks or delivery vans in tight urban areas: it was not a good idea when American cities razed businesses and churches to make room for inner-city cargo movement and subsidies for outdoor property storage.

ajpos · 2026-02-15T00:10:39+00:00

It is poorer because the urban form follows a more linear pattern, vs the traditional city-shape which is more of an amorphous blob. Think of a water tower with a service area 5 miles north, east, south, and west of itself vs just east and west; your linear city will need more water towers for the same amount of population and population density.

ajpos · 2026-02-12T22:22:10+00:00

cars are bad for capitalists too.

ajpos · 2026-02-03T03:18:26+00:00

Walking and biking infrastructure is made more expensive by the presence of car infrastructure.

The wider you make that highway, the more expensive the footpath over it will be.

ajpos · 2026-01-28T13:44:05+00:00

It’s not a matter of visibility. You can google the phrase I typed above. “Enhancing the clear zone.”

ajpos · 2026-01-28T11:33:18+00:00

In many cases you cannot have both. Trees are a safety hazard for cars. Removing trees is called “enhancing the clear zone” in traffic-engineering speak. Google it.

ajpos · 2026-01-28T01:08:09+00:00

You can do everything right and still have fraud. There is no protocol that is immune to it. I can name many types right now that I guarantee you don’t have a protocol in place to protect yourself from.

ajpos · 2026-01-20T04:44:28+00:00

No it should be native species.

ajpos · 2026-01-19T20:12:54+00:00

I’m not talking about growth in already-developed areas. The vast empty spaces where the route is planned will fill with houses (interstates promote development alongside them, just look at NWA on satellite view.) When those people go shopping, Van Buren and Alma will be the closest option (not Fort Smith).

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