seeing libs talk about the horrors of socialized housing while this is 'just normal' increases my revolutionary spirit :elmofire:
This container housing shit is always a scam. It costs more to make a container livable than just building a normal home.
It's also more wasteful. You have to do extra construction to make it livable otherwise it will either rust out and collapse or fill with mold. It's nuts. Just build regular ass homes and put people in them ffs
You have to do extra construction to make it livable otherwise it will either rust out and collapse or fill with mold.
oh look it's like a normal appartement
Yeah, but what about Sustainability TM?
Postmodern architecture is so 1960s. We need new styles! New buzzwords! New problems to pretend to solve while rejecting the knowledge and solutions that have been uncovered over the last 10,000 years of human history.
No it's ok, with the collapsing economy they were going to get scrapped anyway :agony:
At this rate America is going to look like Fallout even before the bombs drop
The Resource Wars page on the wiki is some serious blackpill shit.
Such an awful fad. We really need to de-stigmatize single and double-wide style homes, and even cheaper tiny houses and whatnot (although tiny houses usually cost a lot more than they should because they tend to be built for privileged folk who want to "scale down"). America could so easily solve its homelessness crisis if it weren't for gimmicky bullshit like this (and capitalism, of course).
You can rent an actual apartment in Dallas w/ utilities included for around $900 and have 4-5x the space.
It's not even fucking affordable - how does this make any sense?! Fucking capitalists, man.
What is the justification for the crap in this article??? How much did the asshole who built those have to pay for the fluff piece making it seem like they were providing a public service by renting them for 900 month??
Landlords gonna landlord.
Even when they are making 'affordable' housing they can't help but try and make a massive profit off those less fortunate than themselves.
Ends up completely defeating the fucking point too. :agony:
Jesus you can’t find an apartment that’s not falling apart for less than 1100-1200 dollars a month in my area. I would love to have 3 figure rent
I mean the dishwasher broke and the landlord told me 'sucks dumbass' but it's still 900!
We should have a community along the lines of Reddit's r/WeWantPlates except its c/WeWantHouses.
Literally a shanty town the libs claim communist citizens are forced to starve in, except this one will run you $900. This shit looks like that Ready Player One garbage heap town in that shitty movie
Americans got nothing on khrushchyovka now. Who lives a in cold depressing box now
FYI: the Faircloth Amemndment was signed into law by Clinton that set a cap on ALL Public Housing in America
" In 1998, the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act (QHWRA) was passed and signed by President Bill Clinton.[16] Following the frame of welfare reform, QHWRA developed new programs to transition families out of public housing, developed a home ownership model for Section 8, and expanded the HOPE VI program to replace traditional public housing units. The act also effectively capped the number of public housing units by creating the Faircloth Limit as an amendment to the Housing Act of 1937, which limited funding for the construction or operation of all units to the total number of units as of October 1, 1999. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_United_States#Housing_in_the_1980s-1990s
so between this fucking insane limit on public housing and the stupid (and generally racist/classist) zoning in many US cities, the results are this kind of turdpile nonsense
didn’t the main character in snow crash live in a shipping container
life imitates art
yes, Hiro Protagonist. his was twice the size at 600 square feet but I think he had a roommate
EDIT: yea the roommate's name was Vitaly Chernobyl
lol what kind of names are these?
Is the main antagonist named Washington Bad Villain?
this made me remember heroes and now I'm sad that Masi oka isnt on screen anymore
Yep, combine that with the corporations being allowed to become governments in nevada and we're good to go. I'm already working on my gargoyle rig.
The Lomax Container Housing Project will be built on South Malcolm X Boulevard.
Oh cool, I always wanted to live in the fucking container city from Brink
That trailer was dope as hell . . . then I played the demo :sadness:
I ended up with a really cool shirt with a molotov on it. Cut it down into a sweet tanktop. Only good thing to come from Brink.
Even half of the price would be fine for a large city like Dallas. $900 is fucking absurd and can't be considered remotely low-income.
“I think the biggest misconception is that ‘affordable housing’ means ‘low-income housing’ which is not the case,” he said. “There is a shortage of available units at every point of the affordability spectrum and workforce housing projects like this one are just a small part of the overall solution.
Need a new kind of solution for Landlords and developers.
edit to add: no, seriously, go read it. The ebook is at https://archive.org/details/SnowCrashNealStephenson and you can use sumatrapdf or calibre to view the epub.
It's so fucking good. I don't understand why my book club is so resistant to reading it (opposing suggestions at the last discussion were literally Thus Spoke Zarathustra and some piece of shit that my friend described as "the crown, but in book form and better").
Same. Seveneves was excellent too, but pretty intense and I can't recommend it if someone is struggling with climate grief/anxiety
Anathem was my first Neal Stephenson book and I became absolutely entrenched in the world. The fact that technology is called "praxis" lol. I really should read Seveneves again, but for some reason I didn't find it as good as Snowcrash, Anathem, REAMDE, or The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O
I've been putting off anathem. That or cryptonomicon is next on my stack, but your hints about anathem show me pretty clearly which one I should read next.
Honestly my vote is for Cryptonomicon. The way all the storylines converge on the ending is so satisfying. It's a fuckin tome though
I'm on the hook for a $700 mortgage + $200 for home owners insurance for a house and ~ 60 acres. For context about just how fucking ridiculous that price is.
Damn we should establishment an official hexbear commune there or something
If the world ever gets around to ending I see if my wife wants to give our address to strangers. 😉
Being blood mouths and raising animals might be turnoff for a lot of hexfolks here though.
Small farming stuff. Some amateur pasture/forest management stuff. Occasionally foraging for mushrooms turns up something edible and a fair amount of wild fruit/berries can be harvested if we can beat the wildlife.
Otherwise, doing our best to keep the place from being turned into 60 acres of dead dirt.
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