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These are pretty far down the list of the things wrong with most American cities
there isn't a residential building near with me with that many floors for god knows how many miles
I'm not in a small town or anything I just live in the land of endless suburbs
They're replacing blocks of low income housing all over the city I live in. Most of these are also condos and expensive enough they can rent out one or two units and make a profit so they can just have a few wealthy tenants in an otherwise empty building. A lot where I am also had to make promises to make a certain amount of units low income housing and whoever owns this shit just built em and said "fuck you, I'm not actually doing that' and city council did jack shit. They're also some of the worst construction design you can imagine and they're ugly. We have a serious serious housing crisis here and this has been the response which is just driving more people into homelessness. These building represent everything wrong with my city.
The ten year before and after pictures here, especially in the last few years where it's been cranked up hard would make you mad. They're still really really badly built and look hideous as well. Glad they're building them somewhere okay where you are but I think my case is more common.
Okay, we got rid of all the 5-over-1s and replaced them with luxury condos that are the same size but house 10x less people.
Not much because they'll all have to be rebuild soon anyway since they're so poorly constructed.
I love in southern California. I wish there was less sprawl. More high density.
My eyes, my teeth, my tongue
The breath from my lungs and the blood from my veins
Every minute of my past and every day of my future
Is it just me, or does that building look like it's going to collapse in a light breeze?
