Elevators are [the] transportation breakthrough that made steel frame construction genuinely useful... tall apartment buildings make it possible for there to be plenty of housing for everyone even where land is scarce.
If elevators were more widely used, they could unleash not just a boom of new construction in America's most expensive areas but an important secondary boom of higher wages for workers at all skill levels.
— vox.com
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If elevators were more widely used, they could unleash [...] a boom of new construction in America's most expensive areas
So if we build more elevators, the zoning will magically change from SFR? This is not a "if you build it they will come" scenario. This is more like Kevin Costner being told to plow over a corn field and build a baseball stadium so the government gets rid of ethanol subsidies.
Yes!!! The gov't is finally getting rid of ethanol subsidies!!! Let's throw a party!
This article is dumb. Gonna put an elevator in my SFR to solve the housing crisis then jobs that pay well too.
I don't think housing affordability has much to do with not having enough space, elevator isn't going to solve the problem.
When you make a place desirable to live, more people move there, thus making it more expensive. There are many many ghost towns you know. One can still buy a house for a $1, but who'd want to live there? It is largely a job creation problem.
The housing crisis in London, Toronto, and Hong Kong has to do with housing being a commodity, a very desirable financial instrument. The Chinese government don't allow one person to own more than one residential property in China. The rich look to invest in other countries. Many properties in London are now foreign-own. One one hand, the country benefit from foreign investments. On the other hand, it drives up standard of living.
This is the dumbest pos article..
Solve world hunger? Make more pizzas!
"Elevators as disruption"
So states a subhead in the article. And as we know, if a current buzzword is applied, then the whole questionable premise must be **poof** instantly true!
Seriously, is it this stuff generated by monkeys locked in a room with typewriters, or a just software randomly combining nouns and verbs?
+++ to jla-x's bold solution above.
Make mine pepperoni.
Contra the headline image: not all multi-story housing accessed via elevators is the same.
I thought elevators and the lack of maintenance of them were huge contributors to the demise of public housing.
I wonder if places like San Francisco will end up like Detroit, a victim of their own success and a one industry town. The people who drive your Uber and deliver your food got to live somewhere, or those services have to become more efficient or more expensive.
I type this from my 2 bedroom 950 (heat and water included) a month spacious apartment 6 block from the beach and 40 min by El to the loop, Chicago apartment. Eventually people will move to where they can afford to live the life they want. And it is not about how much you earn that is important it is how much you have after you pay your bills that matters, 50K in Chicago is not the same as 50K in St Louis or New York.
Over and OUT
Peter N
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