#high density housing

[bethelctpride]

Housing is a queer issue

what's the number one reason someone has to stay somewhere unsafe? Can't afford to live somewhere else.

Queer folks are more likely to experience homelessness, trans folks even more so. And that's likely to set off a cascade of consequences with issues getting a job, accessing health care, and so on.

Wherever you live, show up for Planning & Zoning meetings or write a letter when they're considering higher density housing and especially if they're considering zone changes like Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Those aren't just for big cities!

Show up and say "Yes, I want Those People to live HERE".

Yes, In My Back Yard.

Say yes to infill especially where existing in-town lots with access to services are rezoned to higher density units. The new apartments should go where the sewer line already is, not where it requires running a whole new spur and where everyone is isolated and requires a car to get everywhere.

Say yes to that public housing in the downtown core where people can WALK to all the services they need.

Everyone should have access to safe affordable housing. You won't know who exactly you're helping, but you're helping tear down a barrier for everyone.

[tilbageidanmark]

Urban density in Hong Kong

[stevehairingtit]

There's a ballot measure in California people keep asking me about because I am genuinely credentialed on the power of my hatred for the singular organization the measure would fuck, and it doesn't sound bad! If you didn't research, you might think it sounds like a fine idea! And, again, I hate them! But I have to be like yeah, no, that measure is totally retaliatory on the part of corporate landlords mad they keep trying to make rent control happen. Yeah, no, I know, but just say no to that one.

[iirulancorrino]

I know trauma is one of the words that the internet is in danger of diluting beyond all meaning, but I think we really don’t understand or at least talk about as a society how traumatic being affected by wildfire is, even for people who don’t lose their homes

[mass-convergence]

I feel like that’s an underestimation tbh.

But glad lawmakers are scrambling to help. I’m sure they’re totally going to be working their asses off and Congress will be able to come together to pass a bill without zero complications.

(And link to the article)

[ssspringroll]

oh what to do with magnolia promenade...

[yarnings]

So the government's new plan for housing sounds like a superficially good thing that's going to have a lot of problems that will make the existing issues worse.

Huh... it looks like they're flat-out admitting that they're going to make the existing problems worse?

[bighominiglo]

what if I told you that the majority of the leftist movement is basically all hypocrites

self proclaimed schizoposter nervously typing '911' into their phone and hovering their thumb above the 'call' key as they hawkishly watch a disheveled guy at a bus stop make repetitive movements and ramble to himself

[a-shade-of-blue]

I don't think most of us understand exactly the extent of devastation in Gaza. In the first month of this genocide alone, the Gaza Strip has been hit with firepower the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs! Between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel has dropped approximately 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, surpassing the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined during World War II! And Gaza is only 360km² big, which is 4 times smaller than London and 2.5 times smaller than Hiroshima. But Gaza has a very high population density of 5,500 people per square kilometer, which is higher than that of most cites, including London!

Israel has not stopped or slowed its attack on Gaza. Just 2 days ago, Israel has killed at least 36 people during an airstrike on Nuseirat Refugee camp. The building targeted is a residential block housing children, families and displaced people.

My friend Mahmoud (@mahmoudfamily7) has 17 family members in Nuseirat right now, including 10 children. In addition to all the attacks, they cannot buy basic necessities as items have risen to 8000% more expensive than usual, or even more! They have 3 infants with them, including a baby born only a few months ago. Mahmoud's sister is also still healing from the infects she got from giving birth in a polluted environment with no medical resources!

Vetted! Mahmoud's campaign is #3 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds vetted list here, #117 on @/gazavetters vetted list, vetted by bilal-salah0, and vetted by association!

Mahmoud has been fundraising since May, that's more than half a year now but his campaign is still stuck at 7%! They have received only 1 donation in the past 3 days! Right now they have only raised $5,285 CAD raised of $80K goal (equivalent to $3712 USD!), and that's after 7 months of fundraising! Please give them more support!

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[beeseverywhen]

I think ppl in blocks of flats should group together to share Netflix logins actually

[hellsgate-roadhouse]

Gunkanjima Island - Nagasaki, Japan .

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD have a history as odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima’s.

The tiny, fortress-like island lies just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is ringed by a seawall, covered in tightly packed buildings, and entirely abandoned - a ghost town that has been completely uninhabited for more than forty years. In the early 1900s, Gunkanjima was developed by the Mitsubishi Corporation, which believed - correctly - that the island was sitting on a rich submarine coal deposit.

For almost the next hundred years, the mine grew deeper and longer, stretching out under the seabed to harvest the coal that was powering Japan’s industrial expansion.

By 1941, the island, less than one square kilometer in area, was producing 400,000 tonnes of coal per year.

And many of those working slavishly in the undersea mine were forced laborers from Korea.

Even more remarkable than the mine was the city that had grown up around it.

To accommodate the miners, ten-story apartment complexes were built up on the tiny rock - a high-rise maze linked together by courtyards, corridors, and stairs. There were schools, restaurants, and gaming houses, all encircled by the protective seawall.

The island became known as “Midori nashi Shima,” the island without green.

Amazingly, by the mid-1950s, it housed almost six thousand people, giving it the highest population density the world has ever known. And then the coal ran out.

Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city was abandoned, left to revert back to nature.

The apartments began to crumble, and for the first time, in the barren courtyards, green things started to grow. Broken glass and old newspapers blew over the streets. The sea-breeze whistled through the windows.

Now, fifty years later, the island is exactly as it was just after Mitsubishi left. A ghost town in the middle of the sea.

[fatehbaz]

Y’know about notorious housing costs and homelessness situation in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Pacific coast of the US? In 2023, Portland and San Francisco are both moving forward with major multi-million-dollar projects to outlaw “street camping” while opening “city-run mass encampments.”

The mayor, 14 April 2023:

San Francisco is site of arguably one of worst situations in the US, where thousands units are completely inaccessible, and people pay over $2000 a month to live in closets or dorm-style high-density shared rooms, and upscale coffee shops and restaurants require phone apps or payment receipts for people to access restrooms. The W!!pedia page “Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area” is over 120,000 bytes in size and 12,000 words in length.

In April 2023, the city announces its grand plan: A “five-year plan” costing $600 million to “cut the number of unsheltered homeless in halve” in five years. So not a plan to put people in homes, but just to get them off the street, qualifying them as part of the strange designation of “the sheltered homeless” (they will still be homeless, but they won’t be “on the streets,” and will be “sheltered” by a city shelter or camp).

Get them out of sight, put them out of the way on an island or something:

In 2022, the city estimated that over 20,000 people are homeless in a calendar year.

And that’s only within the formal city limits of San Francisco and doesn’t include the rest of the Bay Area (which contains millions more people in Oakland, San Jose, Richmond, etc.) 

The rest of the Pacific coast?

In late 2022, Portland, its mayor, and its city council announced a major initiative to ban and outlaw “street camping”. Portland will simultaneously by opening “city-run encampments” or  “sanctioned mass homeless camps.” In early 2023, Portland begins this project:

March 2023:

Hmm.

One of the most popular homeless related questions on Q/uora, as if were a “valid question” about how “you must earn your existence through work”, and not a sickening disregard for life:

Hmm.

Like:

[greater-than-the-sword]

*This is somewhat independent of whether your apartment complex or condominium or townhouse is located in the city or the country. But obviously a suburban 'estate' can't be located downtown.

Please boost this as much as possible i want it to get out of my immediate circle.

Please vote based on what you personally would look for in housing and not based on what you think about ideal urban planning

[carionto]

So, uhh, Humans did what they called an "oopsie"

They can turn off stars.

When they elaborated on how their reactors work - true nuclear fusion - they also explained, before the delegates passed out, that their failsafes include high density convection inhibitor rods that shoot out if the power output exceeds what it is currently set to. Except if a manual Overload protocol is engaged. You know, in case they need to go to 400% power. At the risk of blowing up everything. Psychopaths.

Then one of them had an idea. Another phrase the Galaxy must learn to look out for and try to persuade the human who uttered it to not do the idea. They'll still do it, of course, Humans are stubborn like that.

So, some of their ships can transform and double as Warp Gates. Truly fascinating technology, capable only through their absurd energy generation methods and reckless disregard for how the Universe works. They even gave us the blueprints. We thanked them, politely, but we'll have to figure out a safe way to do it first.

Currently their Warp Gates can only make a stable connection to the gravitational center of a large celestial body. As in - stars. Their reactors house miniature stars. They turn those off shockingly regularly for maintenance. One of the few things most of the Galaxy is better than Humanity is making things that don't break themselves through normal operation, but then what's "normal" for them is "excessively insane" to us.

This Human wanted to see what would happen if they sent a big pile of their convection inhibitor rods through a Warp Gate. "Fuck around and find out" is the expression they used, if we are recalling the words correctly.

Well, everyone "found out" that, yes, it actually works, and surprisingly quickly too. The chosen star was a distant Red Dwarf with only uninhabitable planetoids and some asteroid belts and no recorded stations within the system. It took about a week for the first signs of decreased activity to become barely noticeable. It hasn't been long enough to fully end the fusion cycle, but all observations point to the Red Dwarf becoming the first of its kind to retain enough hydrogen to do... we're actually not sure how that will unfold over the coming few million years.

Thankfully, the Human who had the idea was disappointed the star didn't just poof like their contained reactor ones do. The material cost and lengthy process also made it clear it has no real practical application.

Still, technically they can prematurely begin the end cycle of a stars lifespan.

Those of us with more active imaginations might find it hard to sleep at night knowing that, clearly, no Human idea will be left untested...

Oh FUCK! What if th- No. When they fine tune their Warp Gates, could they just send anything anywhere? We're screwed if Humanity ever gets angry.

[krakenartificer]

When we were in Kyiv the other thing I noticed about Khrushchev Housing (their term, not mine) was that with so much high-density housing, they had so much room for parks. The neighborhoods were walkable. There were trees everywhere.

And like, yeah, we can talk about aesthetic options and how best to make comfortable cities for everyone (I mean you can just pour concrete; there’s no reason not to make it interesting), but this isn’t even someone’s-life vs aesthetic. Parks are aesthetic; thriving downtowns are aesthetic.

This is someone’s-life vs your-right-to-feel-superior-to-your-neighbors-over-the-size-of-your-lawn.

i think soviet brutalist architecture is good because it houses countless people who would otherwise have starved on the streets and i think that's fundamentally good no matter what the building looks like and every dipshit who thinks they're dystopian because big concrete building scary are implicitly saying their aesthetic values matter more than human life

[fatkish]

hashiras with a tsugoku reader (more or less the age of muichiro) who is mute because in her past her tongue was cut out and she has a trauma, making her calm and subservient, but who learns quickly and has a lot of potential, similar to the case of ymir fritz from snk She always tries to please her mentor so that they feel proud of her and do not scold her, leading her to overtrain too much.

(Sorry if this is a bit different from what you were expecting, I kinda just had an idea and ran with it kinda forgetting about the original ask. Hope you don’t mind. Also this contains some rather dark content with mentions and allusions to rape and forced pregnancy so please be warned.)

Reader came from a human farm run by demons [similar to the Promised Neverland just with a single orphanage] adults with high quality or more nutritious meat similar to Mitsuri were abducted by demons and forced to have children. The children had their tongues cut out and were raised to be obedient and smart. The point of the facility was to raise high quality meat so the children were made to exercise and build muscles. Due to the reader being similar to Mitsuri in muscle density as well as being a Marechi, she was prized. Eventually she learned about the truth of her ‘home’ and just minutes before sunrise, as the demons went to sleep, she started a fire that quickly spread and engulfed the entire house. The other children and people were killed in the flames and by the time the demons were about to retaliate, the sun had risen turning them to dust. Supposedly Muzan or his most trusted Demon was supposed to visit the next night to come and take her. Ubuyashiki had learned of this and sent 4 of the Hashira to get there before him. By the time they arrived, they were too late. All that remained were the smoldering remains of the house and a single small child.

After looking over the wreckage, the Hashira deemed that there was nothing more for them here and decided to take the reader back with them for treatment and hopefully for some information about what that place was and if there was any useful information that they could use. Despite multiple attempts at getting the reader to talk, they simply assumed that they were too traumatized to speak. After bringing them to Shinobu, she did a check up on the child and later reported in the Hashira meeting that the child’s tongue had been cut out. After discussing the child’s condition for a bit, as well as what to do with them and how to get any information out of them, Kagaya suggests having the reader try and draw what happened at the place if they are not able to write. The Hashira agree and bring the reader to Ubuyashiki who has a table with plenty of paper and an ink brush prepared for them. He then asks how the reader is and greets them. After offering tea and sweets, he gently asks the reader if they would be comfortable discussing what happened to them. He reassures the reader that they don’t need to force themselves if they aren’t ready.

After some back and fourth about wether the reader was mentally and emotionally ready to relive their memories, Kagaya allowed them to begin. Kagaya was correct in assuming that the reader couldn’t write so he asked them to draw to the best of their abilities, what had happened. They begin by drawing a picture of a house with a circle around it. Among the many drawings the most notable ones were a drawing of what appeared to be a bunch of children playing on some kind of equipment with what seemed like a demon watching over them, another one of a child supposedly being taken away from the others by two demons. Another drawing depicted the children in a straight line with a demon in front of them. Another picture the reader drew was a line up of children of different heights and then began to smudge up the children’s figures one after the other.

The most notable drawing was a picture depicting a child outside a room where demons were inside it. On the table was what appeared to be parts of a person that the demons appeared to be eating. And it seems as though one of them had spoken something about a demon with a crown, a child, and a drawing of a moon in a speech bubble. The next drawing after that showed the child looking out the window at the moon, then the child was drawn collecting wood. The next, the child looked out the window and saw the sunrise and lit the fire. The child runs out of the burning house. By the time the reader stoped drawing, they had tears in their eyes yet they showed no emotion on their face.

Kagaya comforted the child and thanked them for drawing for them. After the reader left the room with Amane, Kagaya and the Hashira began to decipher what the drawings must mean. They came to the conclusion that the reader had learned the truth about demons and decided to try and kill them by lighting the house on fire hoping that the demons would perish in it. Kagaya decided to have the reader stay within the corps at least until they were able to properly write and read and had a decent understanding of the world around them. Two years went by and eventually the reader learned to read and write and they wrote out what had happened in their past. They wrote how they didn’t bother trying to save the other children or adults there because they had all lost the will to live. They didn’t have the strength to fight and wanted to die. That’s why the reader was the only survivor.

They also wrote about how they accidentally overheard the demons talking about how their lord and master would be arriving in 3 nights to check on their progress and to acquire the promised high quality Marechi they had spoken so highly of. Realizing that they were the one the demons were talking about, the reader began to devise a plan to escape. The Hashira were each disgusted by what the demons had done but didn’t blame the reader for the deaths of the other humans who perished in the fire. When the reader asked Kagaya to let them train and become a demon slayer he agreed and asked the Hashira’s to help train the reader. As you trained with the Hashira and got to know them better, their thoughts of you are as follows:

Kyojuro Rengoku:

There is a bright fire inside them that burns with the desire to prevent what happened to them from happening to others. No matter what hardships they faced or may face, that flame will always burn and never go out. I admire their courage and dedication to the corps and their training. I am immensely proud and honored to mentor them.

Sanemi Shinazugawa:

Those despicable demons should burn in hell for eternity for what they put those kids and people through. Despite what the kid’s gone through they’re still willing to put up a fight. I hate to admit it but the kid’s got potential. (He’ll never admit it but he respects the reader for what they’ve endured and looks out for the reader, making sure they take care of themselves)

Shinobu Kocho:

I’m truly amazed by their dedication and commitment to the corps despite what happened to them. Although I do worry that they overwork themselves often and I often have to reprimand them for not taking proper care of themselves, I admire the strength of their spirit.

Mitsuri Kanroji:

Oh the poor thing. It’s so sad what happened to them. I can’t imagine how much pain they went through, but they’re so strong and kind despite what’s happened to them. Although they do tend to take life a bit too seriously, I wish they would take more time for themselves. Nevertheless I’m so proud of them!

Tengen Uzui:

It’s such a shame that the kid can’t speak. As the god of festivals, it’s my job to properly ensure that the kid learns to express themselves fully. It’s a pain but slowly they’ve been crawling out of the shell their past put them in, all thanks to me of course. The kid’s strong and always willing to learn. They’ll make an excellent underling. Of course my wives love them and can’t help but dote on them, I’ve already promised the kid that when they’re old enough, I’ll take them drinking and make sure they know how to enjoy life to the fullest.

Giyuu Tomioka:

I like them, despite their inability to talk, they are rather pleasant company. I’ve been training them to become the water pillar. They’re very dedicated and they always put their all into training. They do tend to work to the point of exhaustion where they can’t move at all, which isn’t great, but it’s not like I can stop them. They’re a good kid.

Obanai Iguro:

Those filthy demons deserve to suffer for eternity for what they did. I guess I can somewhat relate to the kid, having been raised as food basically. Unlike most of the lower ranking corps members, the kid actually has some potential. Their diligent and dedicated to learning and getting better which is necessary in this profession. Although they do tend to overwork themselves which effects their rate of improvement. Overall the kid’s okay in my opinion.

Muichiro Tokito:

Oh them? They often come to me for advice and training. They have some skill, and they continue to improve. They train until they can’t, which I don’t see the problem with. (Shinobu: that’s because you did the exact same thing) their competent unlike most, … who are we talking about?

Gyomei Himejima:

(Cries) Namu Amida Butsu. The poor thing has suffered immensely and yet they still have the will to protect others. Despite the hardships this child has faced they continue on such a noble path. It pains me to watch them overwork themselves to such extreme lengths. I pray that the child will find peace.