Comments by "Nunya Bidness" (@nunyabidness3075) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1.  @vergildisparda  Not really that expensive, but what do you expect? People don’t build nice new mid rises in bad neighborhoods where the sales or rents won’t cover the costs. Really funny fact: They don’t make new old neighborhoods. I bought into Montrose after it was on the way up, but long before it got expensive. Looking at a neighborhood and house that’s cheap today, but will not be tomorrow is a skill. Learn it if you can, and it will save you money.
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  2.  @felixdeportu  But it usually does, unfortunately. The usual line is that the T shirt and souvenir shops are the most profitable. Cities won’t stop it because the reality is they want the tax revenue now matter how anti capitalist they talk. Also, they love the lousy jobs because they love to tout job creation numbers. It’s a lot easier to “create” a bunch of clerk jobs than to run a city well and watch it finally pay off when you leave office years later.
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  3. I think Portland has gone crazy. I support their freedom to go crazy. Why can’t Portlanders choose their own path? Viva La difference. Maybe other cities can learn from them.
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  4. Show me a blighted area, and I will show you the government policies helping to keep it so. This Boston project, had it happened in the South, would be a story on racism, nothing else. Interesting the racism component gets suppressed when we talk about the northeast. At any rate. These areas generally have failing public schools, poor city services, and corrupt political representation keeping out the evil gentrification. They are commonly full of publicly funded projects to “improve” the area which inevitably push out rather than attract investment.
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  5. If the tourists leave, affordability will return. What should be becoming extinct is obsessive hand wringing and over management. You know where there’s still tourism and no locals? Pompeii. It’s a city where humans learned that even owners are really just privileged renters. You make your choices and you take your chances. No whining.
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  6. I’m afraid comparing people served by a space is a misleading measure. Not sure why. I’m starting to see what led to the rise of the shopping mall though. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  7. Has anyone looked into doing something like was done to build out the West where they gave private companies land as a lure to get them to build rail? Would the numbers work to get them to build planned communities miles outside a major city connected by rail?
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  8. A station in downtown Houston is 40 minutes from a lot of the neighborhoods and office parks. The 290 location is likely better, and only 15 minutes from downtown. That area is ripe for redevelopment and gentrification. It’s also more convenient than Houston Hobby (which is where SWA has very convenient and affordable service) for a majority of the business traveler demographic who mostly live to the West and North of town. I can’t imagine getting a new rail into downtown Houston.
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  9. If you make bad choices in life, you are more likely to live in a poor neighborhood and lose your license and have bad health and many other things. I wish people would wise up about these studies.
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  10.  @alx8571  You obviously are here for a debate without regard to truth or consequences. For someone who claims to dislike individualism you are ironically self centered.
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  11.  @IkeOkerekeNews  we have left the point of the thread, now, but unless you are splitting some sort of semantic hair, I cannot understand where you are coming from.
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  12.  @mytimetravellingdog  I’m pretty sure NIMBYism started in caves as a disagreement over where some undesirable snorer or odor producer would be allowed to sleep.
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  13.  @danielkelly2210  You have a better idea?
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  14.  @draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978  No, it’s a bipartisan activity. Even libertarians play along sometimes.
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  15.  @Sofiaode18  You are describing a society of sociopaths, and it is not the result of free markets. The thank you, thank you culture is the proper result. What causes what your describing would seem to come more from crony capitalism or truly rigged systems. I worked for a sociopath on a couple occasions, and it can make you feel that’s how this country works. It’s not though. You can spend most all your time dealing with honest people and living fairly well. I think we have a media creating the idea that you cannot escape the bad stuff because of politics and other things, but you can.
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  16.  @crisis8v88  Or my favorite issues either.
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  17.  @hombreg1  Yeah, the Cold War made for some stupid moves and lots of victims. It wasn’t one sided though, and had nothing to do with individualism as a belief. Had America been collectivist and mercantilist, we could have had the exact same foreign policy, no?
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  18.  @parus6422  Oh come on. Threats of violence? You mean government power?
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  19.  @parus6422  The idea that zoning, or other land use regulation is forcing others to live your way is hyperbole and ignores all the options available. If you don’t like zoning, do not buy property in a zoned neighborhood. Certainly, there’s a good argument that too much of many cities is zoned restrictively, but you’re out of bounds. Also, do not forget, it’s also using state power to keep people from agreeing on land use restrictions. Should California stop San Francisco from zoning how it’s voters want? Should individuals not be able to agree on covenants through a contract?
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  20.  @parus6422  Don’t get pedantic with me. I’ve been there, got the T shirt, the fancy sheepskin, and all the rest. It is you misapplying what you’ve read and going hyperbolic with it. None of those gentlemen would forbid covenants as far as I have seen. I have few disagreements with that crowd in general. (Not all that familiar with Yergin’s books beyond hearing some commentary).
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  21.  @parus6422  Sure. That’s the thing. If I have a home in the center of a deed restricted community, and the Feds call BS and put a section 8 apartment building on one side of me, and a developer puts a gas station and mini mart on the other, I have a right to be mad. If I’m a typical idiot that bought next door to an empty lot zoned for multi family which gets developed into multi family, I have no right to complain. Either way, I’m a NIMBY.
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  22.  @kaitlyn__L  It seems you are trying to support your position by speaking for the other side and stealing bases. What is it exactly you believe?
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  23.  @kaitlyn__L  My response was prompted by your making the other side’s hypocrisy for them, and it was not in anyway an attempt to shut you down. I’m much more for individualism than collectivism, and I think the 17th Amendment was a poor solution that greatly hurt our country. We had an exchange on NIMBY’s above. Funny thing, one rarely sees the “collective” members pitching in to bail out the losses of the NIMBY’s when the great for everyone rail line makes their home lose 10% value. All those 20 somethings and their allies want to just decide and enjoy, not pay. If no stop is convenient to an owners home, but the rail is going to cause her a loss, I doubt her socialist membership card is going to keep her from becoming a NIMBY (and likely seeing corruption behind the scenes by the very politicians she voted for, too). Hypocrisy? Lastly, I’m keeping my name from Google, though I’m sure that didn’t last. It’s still a statement.
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  24.  @kaitlyn__L  First, I had a Civic 1500 GX that often left the ground completely and was commonly seen sliding sideways on wet pavement. 😁 I was jealous of my buddy’s Golf GTI, but needed a truck as my next vehicle. Then I got a Miata, and found out how to enjoy driving at more moderate speeds. Yes, I know there was corruption with Senate seats, but would have preferred different solutions. I think the 17th led to too much federal power among other things. The train example may be a bad one because passenger trains can lead to higher values in some areas. Not so much in Texas. There are almost always losers though. I own a “corner case” cottage that is getting devalued right now by public housing, road widening, commercial rezoning, and draconian changes to a three year old STR regulation. They want to “protect neighborhood character” (and reduce values though they’ve smartly shut up about that” by taking away all the STR permits from non residents in the more traditional, middle and lower class neighborhoods. At the same time they’ve added two large subsidized housing projects on my street and are adding stop lights that will increase traffic even more. My house is next to a home that got a commercial rezone. Basically, so that young families can afford the area and will be attracted to it, they are getting rid of the “business like” STR’s which by state law they cannot treat as businesses. Only my home is next to a business that gets hundreds of visitors a day and on a road they are turning into a Boulevard overwhelmed with high density housing. No train, they took that out. No bike lane either. We asked about a redone to commercial, but we cannot legally call our home a business if it’s an STR. Catch 22. We are losing 100k value as soon as the new regulation passes and about 20k per year in income. We’ve owned it a little more than a year. They are also threatening to actually enforce these rules since non enforcement of the last set meant the “problems” did not get fixed. Anyhoo. Not everyone cares about the values as much as they do neighborhood character. Ive known people who were victims before. I doubt most people on your side of these arguments know people who lost homes. My buddy’s mom ended up handing the keys to her home to the banker and leaving the state. City of Houston overwhelmed her brand new neighborhood with subsidized housing certificates. That was three decades ago. The area is still deadly, and development ceased. Whether the area was targeted for the treatment due to anti semitism is still debated. I think the law must protect the individual. Collective actions should be voluntary and influenced through culture and religion. Legal collectivism gets oppressive and evil too easily.
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  25.  @Reanimator999  The only people who aren’t in danger of being a NIMBY are people with no stake in real estate. IOW’s people who have failed to take a risk on a community and commit to its continued prosperity. I suggest you try buying somewhere and see if that doesn’t change your mind about NIMBY’s. It’s not like communities in this country have not been damaged greatly by government projects and social engineering. If you want to reduce NIMBYism, stop supporting the existing education cabal. They are at the root of much of it.
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  26.  @draum8103  Wouldn’t it be more simple for the youth to just build anything for themselves? I mean outside of Minecraft. Just listen to yourself. I bought a home in really poor shape because it was the only thing not stupid over priced on the market, and paid a contractor to renovate it. There wasn’t a single worker under 30 showing up for the whole damn project. There were a couple guys older than me! Contractor says young people would rather work retail for $20 an hour than construction for $40 an hour. I didn’t buy my first home until I was 34. I practically rebuilt it myself. I paid a contractor to rebuild the garage apartment so that I could rent it out for income quickly, but took a couple years going to classes at Home Depot and doing one project after another.
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  27. Austin tried to limit growth back in the eighties by not not building more roads. It didn’t work. The results are still plaguing them. There really is no decent bypass around Austin for traffic going North and South. The network is built to serve the city. They built a toll road on the east side, but it’s so poorly planned it goes unused by I35 traffic through the city. A fix needed in Texas, but so controversial it will never be implemented, is periodic driving tests and prison for repeat offenses of driving without a license. Reducing accidents would save billions. It will never happen. It’s racist and ageist.
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  28. Set a fair tax system, and don’t make exceptions for powerful people or organizations. Are there any American political ideologies that are pro special treatment? Yet it just will not stop.
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  29. @Anel Zukic Yes, condos on the river walk, and neighborhoods near it pull a high price for what you get. Much of the new development is poorly built townhomes that become “affordable” as they age. A decent economic boom could easily see some of the older neighborhoods be properly gentrified though.
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  30. If your picture is correct, they built residences right up to an airport. This often backfires. Even if the residents manage to use pressure to close the airport (which is pretty low, using the law to steal property rights while removing needed infrastructure), the lost jobs can doom the area for years.
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  31. Primary residence only restrictions might get you a marginal gain, but there could be unintended consequences. Is there anywhere that’s done this for decades? It’s not going to stop the investment factor as single home owners are wise to treat their home as an investment. It’s also greener to treat a home this way or it can force early replacement. I think this regulation is basically a little short term theft that might help new buyers of today, but like rent control, create bigger problems for those behind them.
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  32.  @rogerwilco2  I wish we could figure out how to do this in the US, but it would be very problematic in as diverse a population as the US where assimilation is now frowned upon for the poor. Some serious pulling up of the drawbridge there.
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  33.  @jaceybella1267  No one has come up with a way to take housing out of being a somewhat free market item like it is, and not worsen the lives of everyone involved. Likely because of human nature. Investors are not tying up that many homes in markets with good jobs anyways. A million dollar home or condo sitting vacant doesn’t hurt anyone. Investors buying affordable homes almost universally rent them out at market rates. Investors are not the problem. We have a supply problem which we had before Covid which is now being exacerbated. Groceries may soon be a problem as well. Interesting choice of example. Rhetoric will not fix either problem. Getting people to keep their kids longer is happening, and as the wealthy keep moving back into the cities, large suburban homes are going to be cheaper. Will be interesting to watch. There are problems these videos cover which are definitely problems we can fix. IMO, the first thing we need to do is examine every policy to see if it’s hurting us and figure out how to phase it out carefully. Otherwise, we won’t get to real solutions, just fixes for old solutions layered up in a big inefficient mess. Another thing Americans need to get used to is that even if you outperform your parents economically, you cannot necessarily live in the same place. There’s a good chance that place has gone way up in value. It happens to all levels of people. I know many professionals who cannot afford their old neighborhoods where their middle and upper middle class parents raised them. Demographics will change this over time as Boomers leave those areas, but we are all carrying around a huge government that’s simply weighing us down. More government is NOT able to help anything anymore. It’s too much.
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  34.  @jaceybella1267  Being biased towards helping those less financially able isn’t a problem. The problem is policies that just won’t work while unnecessarily hurting the rich. Eat the rich style tax policies like those that killed the yacht industry and the piston aircraft industry accomplish nothing while destroying jobs and companies. In both cases, those activities just became more exclusive and expensive such that upper middle class types were kept out and tens of thousands of jobs destroyed. Ironically, tax revenues were decreased. The powerful rich types always avoid the taxes. I was, and still may be a UBI supporter, but I’ve seen with the pandemic that there are simply a really large amount of financially illiterate people who cannot think of the future. Will they use UBI to supplement jobs or use it to simply work less? The pandemic showed me it’s the latter. So I am reconsidering. I’d like our country to be a place where the basics were guaranteed, but I’m not sure it’s in our DNA. The far left wants equity, and the far right wants to use starvation to get people to work for a living. I do know the pie is getting smaller again, and we have to stop letting DC decide who gets what or there will soon be a much smaller pie. We also have to stop DC from simply ordering pie on credit. That’s crazy and dangerous.
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  35.  @RashawnBlue1  I’m not using the pandemic. You are being unnecessarily argumentative. I mostly agree with you. And yes, I know UBI is different. I used to give the other side’s arguments no merit, but now I think they might have a point, that’s all. I’d be happy to see it tried in a limited area. If you could use UBI to get rid of all the other handouts, it would likely be worth it in my opinion. Just take all that power away from legislators and streamline so many programs right out of existence.
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  36.  @RashawnBlue1  Well, as a tyrant, you should know we all need to watch out for our biases when searching for the truth. No, scratch that, as a tyrant you should just go with your gut. 🤣😂🤣 👍
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  37.  @michaelcre8  It would be a better system than we have now, but it wouldn’t really help what’s causing today’s issues. Housing right now is in a perfect storm. It will correct. Better to worry about what’s the best long term solution anyways.
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  38.  @angelsy1975  I’ve never seen anyone talk about the lobbyists from the “developers” being behind the mortgage regulations. It was a populist plan afaik. All with good intentions for middle class Americans and more government power and a free lunch. I don’t think your half truth thing is all that clever, btw. You can always say anything was created that way, but even if it’s 99% there’s still the one percent. There’s really no use for thinking everything is the result of corruption. It doesn’t move the ball unless you have specifics.
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  39.  @laurie7689  Great solution. I was thinking your kids were still small, lol.
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  40.  @barryrobbins7694  An expectation of payment without any way to force it is worthless. Now, what exactly are these people doing you want them to be forced to pay?
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  41.  @barryrobbins7694  What about all the other ones? Especially the ones that haven’t been able to grow their boundaries? Ponzi schemes don’t usually last for half a century or more. Are you going to try everything you can think of while ignoring everything I say? How about you get serious about it or give it up?
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  42.  @advokatie  rent control? Are you guys going back to bleeding people with leeches also? Rent control helps a lucky few, and hurts many, many more. It’s unbelievable how Marxists are somehow destroying our country with the worlds oldest and worst ideas. The reason you have people calling for rent control is that a century of market intervention has made housing more and more unaffordable. Name any housing affordability program, and I can easily spell out how it’s made things worse and helped create the current mess. Try me.
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  43.  @gro_skunk  Why aren’t they being built?
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  44.  @kennethridesabike  It’s a mystery to me that the environmentalists have not been properly outed. Maybe this latest trend of using environmentalism to defend wealthy property owners will finally do it. There are, of course, many people of integrity concerned about foolish damage to the planet. Unfortunately, the core of the movement has been Marxist from the very beginning, so inevitably it all becomes a hammer for authoritarianism.
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  45.  @DaboInk84  One might rightly ask if this legal change is really an effort to house people. I’m hard pressed to find any legal trickery that has ever actually helped house people that didn’t make housing actually cost more either immediately (government subsidized homes are ludicrously poor values on average) or in the long run (by adding more monetary demand for housing, and thus for the land as well). At this point, shouldn’t we be demanding to drastically rip up the government play book and end zoning while studying how to taper off the rest without shocking the market?
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  46.  @realestatejunkie0414  The cities do want it. The “city” is the government, not the property owners. The home owners do mostly want gentrification where their areas only move upscale. They are perfectly correct to want to control what they own, and to demand things stay as currently zoned. That’s part of the problem with zoning.
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  47. Are you really looking to eliminate cars, or was that just a poor choice of words? Eliminating private transportation is some serious authoritarian radicalism.
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  48.  @brandonm1708  Before I go hitting your links. How about you explain why my post makes you think I need such information?
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  49.  @brandonm1708  Lolololol. Oh my. I will watch your screed, and comment there. I know a LOT about the alternatives, and the problems with cars. I know even more about the problems with most the idiots who want to ban private transportation. Most everything wrong with the modern car is a result of big brother government. If they could ban the things and keep you where they wanted, they would love it. Trust me, young one (I hope your foolishness can be blamed on youth), you would not be enjoying YouTube today if it were not for freedom of travel in the US, and the example it sets for the world. You’d be getting spoon fed Orwellian pamphlets on crummy paper, and then trying to eat them for the fiber and calories. You don’t think Elon Musk cannot make you a car with a 1,000 mile range? Of course he can. Just not one that meets all the regulations. I doubt your “Ban the car” video is anything but foolish romanticism fueled by a lack of serious thought to hinder its Utopian silliness.
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  50. In our area, we have HOA’s with zero commons. Of course, it’s Houston, and the internet gets most everything wrong about Houston except the weather. The weather is as bad as they say. Oh, and the traffic is as bad also, but not for the reasons you hear.
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