jckarter

This is a really good piece of investigative reporting about how landlords are using techniques like warehousing and price-software to get around supply and demand in order to raise rents even when a city's adult population is shrinking faster than it's growing.

I'm generally in favor of building more housing but this is an important demonstration of the housing market is incapable of self-regulating and in fact housing being a market commodity is always detrimental to neighborhoods being both affordable and livable. Building more market rate housing doesn't increase supply and lower rent if landlords don't actually list all their vacant apartments or collude to raise rents all together despite there being an increased supply. Regulation of the market and building public housing, at minimum, is necessary.

This article definitely explains why Philadelphia rent still somehow skyrocketed when all the university students who usually fill most of the housing in its fastest gentrifying neighborhoods were sent home and told not to live in the city.

you’re telling me an 8 bit this CPU??

if you are a canadian citizen or resident sign this shit immediately. it only takes a few seconds.
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-4268

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thanks for all your overwhelming support! here's hoping this one goes through.

contents of petition follows

There's a graphics trick that used to be widely known that has now probably almost vanished from the graphics consciousness - you can do rotations by applying three shears in a row. This should surprise you! It surprised me. And it re-surprises me every time I remember it.

raises goblet three shears for rotation! 🍻