The US is doing that as part of a team. I think the reason people donât hear about it more is because the US team member is a defense company, Lockheed Martin.
Biggest state in the union is likely to have the biggest homeless problem. Let alone the weather is more conducive to living outside.
I had a full contingent of Solar power put on my garage by Vivint and I must say it working out spectacular. My power bill has gone done significantly. 70%
For fun, letâs do you: âNowhere in my post did i say anything about acreage. My post is completely, totally, absolutely, verifiably, unquestioningly, perfectly true.â [fill in your favorite, trite insult]
If the free market were given a free hand in NYC it would build one heck of a lot of bland looking highrises very quickly.
In fact, it would probably build two or three hecks.
ALL of the coastline in places like Coney Island, the Rockaways, Brighton Beach would stop having 2-5 story âcharming historicalâ buildings and begin to look like the highrise dominated beach fronts if Cannes, Diamondhead etc. etcâŚ
Too many people would want, if they could afford it, to live a stones throw from Manhattan in a chic highrise overlooking the ocean. If dinky little towns like Ocean City MD can do it so can the worldâs second financial capital. It is the government and ONLY the government that has prevented this from hapoo decades ago.
Ditto with Midtown. I canât immediately find a good photo, but viewed from the side, Manhattanâs skyline looks like a two hump camel. Highrises have long been legally barred from midtown. Hippys hate tall buildings and Greenwich village has been Greenwich village.
Personally I donât think NYC streets and subways could handle all the new population a free unfettered housing market would bring in. Clearly some govât intervention is an absolute necessity. Itâs called âthe tragedy of the commons.â
With so many people working from home these days the traffic flow isnât the problem it once was. They can always build more elevated commuter transportation if needed.
There is such a concentration of capital in large cities like NYC they will always draw as many people to them as can fit comfortably and quite a few more.
Iâm not saying itâs necessary bad, but itâs just reality. Anytime you have a high demand good, service, or commodity in limited supply the price skyrockets, thatâs just market forces doing what they do.