No fucking shit! All the farmland near me has been built upon by exorbitantly priced mega homes. The fucking infastructure isnt holding up and traffic has quadrupled.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Apparently competition will not reduce the rent on luxury apartments down to the point where poor people can afford them. This is surprising to... idk
Luxury in name only as a lot of comments point out, it's like putting "organic" on a bag of lettuce it somehow makes it 25-35% more expensive
yeah, they build a lot of those too, like those "luxury" skyscraper apartments in NYC that cost the earth and have low ceilings and cramped corridors. but i bet the actual elite of NYC lives in really nice old world apartments
Yeah most “luxury” apartments have paper thin walls and broken pipes because they were put up at hyper speed
"Luxury" apartments have corners cut left and right. They also add nonsense like the "trash valet" that never comes.
I literally tried to explain this to someone in this thread but they had their head up their ass. The truly wealthy have apartments in NYC, sure, but comparing those kind of apartments to "luxury" apartments is like comparing a low end Lexus to a high end Aston Martin lmao.
like comparing a low end Lexus to a high end Aston Martin lmao.
Except Lexus is made by Toyota so they’re actually good cars
a lifetime ago, before the global financial crisis when I was a young man with an OK job and I remember seeing some newly constructed housing for rent.
it was a few miles from where I lived, in a formerly blighted/dead area that had been completely renovated into this little pseudo walkable area of shops, upstairs apartments, a nice movie theater, and some restaurants.
the apartments were like 90% vacant so I looked at the prices. i was currently splitting a 3 bedroom house as a group of 4 people in a pretty chill area and it cost me 30% of my monthly takehome, as I had the best job. my roommates were more like 40% of their monthly takehome.
so these new places were 1 bedroom, very small, and they wanted 200% of my monthly takehome, did not include utilities and I would have to pay 10% on top of that for a single parking spot. no guests.
that was when I began to learn that the future was being built by and for people who do not statistically exist.
the way we can have a housing crisis and this overabundance of mostly vacant luxury housing should be instructive as hell, but the ideological frame we have been conditioned to normalize refuses to see the most obvious and easy solutions.
The idea is to turn housing into a luxury
I rented a room in a luxury style middle class house for a while. When it rained the ceiling lights would short out in some rooms.
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