Is there any alternative in a similar price range that is for everyone?

This is not pedestrians fault lmao. It is on the city and state to provide a safe environment to walk and bike.

Then it is what it is. I'm not going to take a dollar that could be used to save African children in extreme poverty (who are objectively in a much worse position than any American) and hand it to some random person. That would be akin to taking money out of the extreme poverty African's hands and giving it to an American who has access to 100x better resources

'We' wasn't enough people, there's tons of people that think running over someone was a good thing and she should have ran over more, living in affordable housing on 200k income is good because it pushes out those undesirable poors, using nepotism to illegally park is entirely fair and everyone should do it, etc. They tend to be older than the average Redditor and can be found at the bottom of any Amy DeGise thread.

LMAO buddy's stumped 🤣 you better haul your ass back to Sussex County if you don't want me punching out your illegally parked car

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Sure thing. I'll be glad to get a "pipe in the spokes" of my nonexistent bicycle and get you shipped off to prison anyways.

Clearly, you wouldn't mind me taking the mirrors off, keying, and slashing the tires of every driver illegally parked in the bike lane. They are breaking the law and are dangerous when a cyclist is coming down the lane only to face a choice of swerving into traffic or slamming into the car. So I will go ahead and take care of these dangerous people just like you want.

Ridership is absolutely still lower than pre pandemic. Whether that translates to less crowding depends on how many trains they run. Not offices fault that they cut service.

Note also that these days 100% subsidized housing projects are built by nonprofit community partners to look exactly the same as market rate buildings do. Is that also a cardboard apartment?

You've said all over this thread that you hate "cardboard apartments" generalizing every single new apartment as being of poor build quality, and now you don't hate them?

If you can afford a beach house, you're not poor, simple as that. The poor should be able to go on vacation but they can't because of destructive anti housing policies.

You know how I know you're not really poor? Because it's apartments that get you mad, as if the only valid way to live is in a single family house. That's been the American upper class modus operandi for decades and it's why public housing stopped being built. There's million dollar Bayonne Boxes going up all over the Heights, where's the outrage about that? How does that help poor people? That's what happens when you don't allow enough apartments to serve as yuppie fishtanks.

You also seem to be able to afford to rent a beach house, something I could only dream of. You're not exactly the representative champion of the lower class lmao. Polling shows lower income people support building more housing. So stop going to bat for wealthy homeowners and Wall Street trying to inflate home prices by not building anything.

Empirical source that the poorest NJCU students disproportionately own cars? I will literally bet my life savings that it is the other way around. Parking lots disproportionately benefit wealthier students.

Not building new apartments = raising the price of existing apartments. Again, we don't need to be playing guessing games with this. Look at San Francisco rents in non-dense areas and see for yourself. Ancient houses selling for millions because the rich care about location, not how new it is, and will always outbid you if there aren't enough yuppie fishtanks catching them. If the rich wanted "new luxury" apartments there's plenty of them sitting empty in North Dakota. They want location and they will outbid you for your apartment if nothing else is available. This city can't be allowed to turn into outer San Francisco with zero new development and multi million dollar ancient homes.

There's no chance JC rents will ever equal Manhattan, though it doesn't preclude both places rents from going up

> pretend housing crisis

lmao. Ask Vancouver how a vacancy tax only approach goes. I'm all for a vacancy tax but pretending it will magically solve everything is ridiculous. Rent control won't do it either. NYC has strongest rent control in the nation... and highest rents in the nation.

I mean if you move to another place on your own that's a demand increase there. Ask an apartment owner and you'll find the only way to really hurt them is by living with parents or roommates, as household formation (plus lack of supply) is what drives rent growth.

Sounds like the issue here is embezzlement, not parking lot redevelopment. Parking lot redevelopment is very much a net good. You can't beat a housing crisis by refusing to build, ask San Francisco and NYC how that went. The rich care about proximity to NYC, not whether the building is new. They simply outbid you for the ancient housing and renovate it on the inside. Or you build new housing and stem the bleeding.

Secondly, poorer households are disproportionately car free, not the other way around. Cars are very expensive and a poor enough person such as practically everyone I know does not have 10k laying around to buy one. If you want to help the poor, improve public transportation and build housing near it.

He should stick with fixing them instead of trying to ram a pointless lane expansion through

As a train/bus enjoyer plus no family to worry about, the extra time is ultimately inconsequential and the 300/month in taxes saved very highly outweighs the 30/month in extra subway fares

Because Jersey City public schools are awful and more choice is needed?

This sub whenever public schools come up: HOW DARE YOU RAISE MY TAXES FOR THESE PIECE OF SHIT STUPID PUBLIC SCHOOLS BURN THEM ALL DOWN ASFGGSXVSXZEF

This sub when someone listens and tries something different: NO EVIL CORPORATIST CHARTERS EVER 😤😤😤

Used to think like this but if they're a chill person they won't actually care about appearance (you become the "oddball friend we love") or if they care then they're not a good person anyways