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hearditinapastlife2019 · 11 months ago

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are you jokinggggg an iconic piece of architecture in my city (not good but iconic anyways) was bought up and slated for demo to build condos and now the project is on hold because the housing market is bad. yayyyy more abandoned buildings downtown yayyyyy trying to build luxury condos when there’s a tent city in every park in the city yayyyy closing local businesses instead of trying economic reinvigoration strategies only for the former site of those local businesses to sit vacant for probably years yayyyy no consequences for developers

#there’s the SAME THING going on at a church just up the street from it too. it was supposed to be turned into condos YEARS ago #like 2010s #and now it’s almost 2024 and the scaffolding is still there disrupting a whole block #and there are no plans for construction or anything like girl wtf. at this point the city should be allowed to repossess and build #social housing #but all of our social housing is disappearing anyways in favour of redevelopment models that include more market units than social housing #units anyways <3 #also huge shoutout to the massive social housing complex that was supposed to become a mixed income housing development but is also sitting #vacant while private companies try to appeal the development. all while there’s a huge encampment RIGHT across from it #but those same private companies aren’t appealing luxury condo plans that would be negatively impacted by said private companies MORE #i hate it here so much… all housing should be free and iconic identity-forming pieces of architecture should be left alone #and all vacant lots (and parking lots tbh) should be repossessed to make something nice #and all condo developers should throw up forever and die #yay <3 i love urban planning <3

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