#useless hacks

[arizonaconservativegal]

This shit makes me so mad.

$30 million and they're only building 54 units? That's $555,555 a unit!

We're just talking about studio apartments mostly and a handful of one bedrooms.

A New Leaf is described in this article as a nonprofit but it would be more accurate to call them quasi-governmental because they pretty much only work on government funded projects. This one is being paid for with federal covid money.

The average cost to build a whole new freestanding house in the Phoenix area is only $334k. Why does it cost A New Leaf an extra $220k to build just a studio apartment? Where does all the extra money go?

I wish I could tell you it was something as simple as a board member's vacation home in the Caymans but the real answer is a lot more boring and frustrating: government funding means strings attached. Expensive strings.

Anyone who tells you government can or should solve the housing crisis is a fool. This is how they do it every single time. The Phoenix area needs 50k+ new housing units today to meet existing demands and that number grows daily. If the cost is going to be $555k a unit for a government build, we are looking at a total cost of $28.777 billion - about three times the entire annual state budget, and for just one part of the state. It is never going to be possible for government to spend its way into a solution.

It is negligent at best for government officials to pretend they are doing something about this problem while thousands of people are stuck waiting for help that isn't coming. It disgusts me.

You want to fix this? You want to actually help people? Cut the red tape.

Let the private sector build market rate housing and let them cut out the unnecessary costs. Stop tying them up in endless zoning and permitting delays. Eliminate outdated regulations that drive up the cost without providing any benefit. Lower the cost of market rate housing and people on the edge of workforce and market rate will be able to move up into market rate for the same or less than they pay today and get better quality housing.

Same thing with workforce housing. The private sector can handle that profitably for builders and affordably for residents if we stop making it impossible to do so. It's time to modernize building codes so that we aren't requiring builders to do things like build an entire closet to stick the water heater in because they used to explode - a perfectly reasonable regulation at the time but these days you could just use a tankless heater that fits under the sink and does not carry the same risk, so why don't we let builders do that instead? Or for another example, tiny homes would be a great option for people who don't need a lot of space but we can't build them because zoning categories literally do not exist for the concept. You can build a single tiny house on a full size lot but that pretty much defeats the purpose.

Affordable housing might always need some subsidies. Fine. But we have got to stop doing things that mean building affordable housing costs more than luxury units. Give the contracts to actual home builders instead of going through nonprofits who chew up 20% of the money as "overhead" for being middlemen. Simplify the request for proposal process so that it doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars to apply for the contract - a cost that gets added to the bid and since you won't get every contract you apply for, you add enough to cover several applications. For $555k a unit, I'd expect these apartments to be sparkling with gold and marble but instead these poor people just get scraps with the leftover money once the paperwork is paid for.

[vrsenus]

Who the hell is in charge of the social media accs at mattel specifically EAH because why are they so EASILY hacked

[halfbaked00q]

Sugar baby/trophy husband Bond and Q out for dinner in a fancy restaurant and the waiter tries to give Bond the check (probably because he's older and the waiter Assumed but also to be fair to the waiter, Bond probably also ordered and picked the wine pairings and etc).

Bond just smiles winsomely at him while Q reaches over with an amused half-smile and slaps down a black AmEx

[anniemunchkins]

Clearly, they're soulmates...

[javierduffy]

ohh javieran … javieran post kieran’s death .., javier is a poor lonesome cowboy in america a long way from home with no more sweetheart to sit and talk with him ooohhh can anyone hear me ….

[illegalvampire]

"average person has no niche hobbies" factoid is actually just statistical error. average person has at least one niche hobby. Hobbyless Georg, who lives a life of sadness and constant despair, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

has anyone else noticed the android being weird lately

[hag-o-hags]

violently niche rage:

the SEASON for BRAISING ARTICHOKES is when they're YOUNG AND TENDER and if we're getting in ANCIENT, SHRIVELED, COLD-STORED ARTICHOKES SHIPPED IN FROM FUCKING JUPITER THEY'RE GONNA BE FUCKING TERRIBLE.

god damn woody ass thistle ass canned green beans ass bullshit FUCK

[aeide-thea]

do you ever think abt like. how it takes you twice as much work to arrive at half as much personhood and by the time you've managed to scrape yrself together that far the ppl you were trying to join in with have moved on

[rubikx107]

Best doormat

[bastetreawoken]

My experience playing Mauga is that dispite him being really strong on paper he is very much still a victim of the tank experience

[minhosimthings]

Just another good day interacting with my moots and flipping off some bitch ass anons. Sigh, life is good

[bunnyreaper]

i genuinely did just think of soap to help me cope tonight, like, thinking of the mcdonalds au coworker johnny !! he'd be such a menace.

luckily i haven't been teased too much yet, but, id want all the teasing if it was from him 🥲😭

[baileycatarina]

I just had a weird memory pop up for some reason.

When I was like 12-13 I was super into Pokemon ROM hacking. I learned how to do pretty much everything you could think of, except for complex scripting. Never ended up working when I tried it, but that's beside the point. I used this immense ROM hacking knowledge on a ROM of Pokemon Emerald, where I edited the female character sprites to have Eevee ears. That's it.

Then I solo'd the entire game with an Aerodactyl.

Why did I pick Aerodactyl? Genuinely I could not tell you. It's a fine Pokemon, but it's probably not even in my top 100, so I don't have a single clue why I picked it. From what I remember it did a pretty good job, even if gen3 Aerodactyl has a limited moveset. I beat the game at least, so. Can't be all bad.

[jvzebel-x]

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