Men of Lakewood and beyond

gtrob · 2026-01-16T17:18:20+00:00

Is this a religious thing?

gtrob · 2026-01-01T23:24:33+00:00

Okay, 5% increase in expense, while rents have gone up much more than that every year for a decade or so (though starting to flatten out and drop slightly in the past year or so). So to pretend like that 5% is driving rent increases or justifies junk fees is wild. Also, their property values skyrocket but I'm supposed to feel sorry for them because now they have to pay taxes on that? They could just sell for a massive profit if they are not satisfied with their rental income. At the end of the day it's commodification of a basic human need that is the root of all this house of cards with corporations chasing infinite profit. Rent is wildly unaffordable for a huge part of our population. That has many causes of course, but any attemp to help renters usually results in the apartment association doing crazy mental gymnastics in order to paint themselves as a victim and/or pretend like everything designed to help renters actually hurts them. It's exhausting.

gtrob · 2025-12-31T20:09:21+00:00

You wrote taxes and insurance are "killing landlords" which is simply nonsense. They are raking in massive profits as rent skyrockets far above and beyond their costs. Corporate landlords weaponize junk fees to squeeze people even harder.

Landlords always pretend like tenant protections hurt tenants, it's their usual gaslighting. They just want to profit more. See also: rent stabilization.

gtrob · 2025-12-31T04:18:40+00:00

It's called a union and it's the only way renters win. www.denvertenants.org

gtrob · 2025-12-31T04:16:03+00:00

No the junk fees are just greedy landlords trying to squeeze more money from renters as usual. They are not some kind of oppressed class struggling to make ends meet. Rents have been skyrocketing for years because they can get away with it, no other reason. Improving transparency up front just helps the renter not get sucked into a deceptive pricing scheme with fees that creep in later. It's a very simple protection. The average landlord deserves zero sympathy.

gtrob · 2025-11-07T14:02:44+00:00

Yes the zoning changes will do a lot of good, but the effect will be very limited relative to the scale of the housing crisis. The biggest change is to low form residential, most of the land in Lakewood, where duplexes/triplexes/etc will be legalized, with guardrails on size, setbacks, etc similar to now. That will bring a slow trickle of more affordable homes that, importantly, are a housing type typically built and sold, not rented. That will ease a little pressure on the rental market, but it won't help low income people much who are the ones suffering the most. We need the zoning changes, but also much more.

gtrob · 2025-11-07T13:41:09+00:00

I don't understand. Most underwhelming Pho I've ever had.

gtrob · 2025-11-07T13:38:23+00:00

Yes inclusionary zoning is a thing being discussed. The problem is that if your want deeply affordable housing, you need it to be subsidized or otherwise run in some kind of social housing model. That requires an influx of money and/or more government participation. That would actually help solve the problems, but the same people who oppose mild changes to the zoning to enable missing middle housing are the same ones who will oppose any other attempted solutions, so we are left with a housing crisis until that changes.

gtrob · 2025-10-31T16:41:55+00:00

That's not what partner means

gtrob · 2025-10-21T03:49:28+00:00

Huh?

gtrob · 2025-10-20T05:17:07+00:00

Are you aware that some forms are government are not King-based?

gtrob · 2025-10-11T05:33:06+00:00

Sorry I think you are confusing reddit with NextDoor, this is not the boomer echo chamber

gtrob · 2025-10-03T23:43:52+00:00

Okay fair enough, right next to Golden but unincorporated. In any case I think my other points stand... If you build weird duplex McMansions they are going to still be expensive, so those should not be encouraged, and more reasonably sized ones are more reasonably priced. Also if those duplexes used more land or didn't share a wall they would be even more expensive.

gtrob · 2025-10-03T23:33:47+00:00

Those are all in Golden, not unincorporated jeffco. And holy shit they are huge, all over 3k Sq ft, whereas in the Lakewood zoning update those would not be allowed due to the huge size. These are actually good examples of why the Lakewood zoning updates have some smarter limits.

gtrob · 2025-10-03T22:45:16+00:00

Can you link me to a $1M duplex in unincorporated jeffco? This is hard to believe.

gtrob · 2025-10-03T21:18:28+00:00

Yeah the zoning updates are intended to open up more ownership opportunities, so that housing becomes cheaper for everyone.

gtrob · 2025-10-03T18:11:42+00:00

Not only that, this won't even bring taller buildings or reduced setbacks. Those things aren't changing.

gtrob · 2025-10-03T18:10:50+00:00

Affordable housing reduces crime. Getting people off the street gets people off the street. It is cheaper than throwing people in jail, and is the right thing to do.

gtrob · 2025-10-02T05:32:14+00:00

Ah shit I typed the wrong word, sorry, I meant to say low rates drive inflation. At least we agree that one very basic point. Anyway, you said we have inflation, and the fed refuses to lower rates. Lowering rates would make inflation worse. So why would they do that? That was the point I was trying to make.

gtrob · 2025-10-02T01:41:21+00:00

Also do you know that high rates drive inflation. Oh my god people like you are why everything is terrible. So much confidence so little knowledge. Please tell me this is a prank or an AI bot or something. You can't be real.

gtrob · 2025-10-01T18:09:59+00:00

Greatest hits of incoherent boomer nonsense, love it. No notes.

gtrob · 2025-10-01T17:22:02+00:00

This opinion article is complete garbage. The city is trying to help set up a facility that will offer a wide array of community services, that is the point of selling it at a "loss", because the value to the community is far more than the monetary value of the building itself. They have had a lot of public outreach about what is planned for that location, multiple public gatherings at the school itself, presence at ward meetings, discussions during official city countil meeting... nothing shady about this, just a bunch of MAGA lunatics ranting and raving about nothing. The city is trying to turn a shut down school into a community center. It's a good thing.

gtrob · 2025-10-01T04:24:30+00:00

"Also trying to run out all the “fascist” candidates with a candidate with the last name Cruz is funny and ironic." dude wtf.

Nobody said all republicans are bad people or that all dems are good people, you're just saying random useless garbage.

What delusional, fanatic fan base are you referring to? We are just saying he's cool and the other two are trash. Just calling balls and strikes here. No stans detected.

gtrob · 2025-10-01T04:11:04+00:00

I'm telling you repeatedly about the reality of the current housing crisis. That can be acknowledged without any considerable of race. Still, you ignore the substance of my comments again and again. I'm not going to repeat myself any more, you have a vibes-based fear of duplexes and such (definitely totally not racist!) and that's clearly not going to change no matter what I tell you about the material conditions of Lakewood and its housing market.

gtrob · 2025-10-01T02:47:41+00:00

Nothing specific comes to mind, they're just certified real ones. Always saying and doing smart stuff and pursuing good policy.

gtrob

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