I'm also seeing more and more examples of people who obviously don't deserve their station in media. Again, I always KNEW that, but now each new piece of evidence is noticeable, like when they highlight parts of the screen in a football replay.

Ya this story unfolding alongside the Epstein emails has been weirdly radicalizing. Of course I cognitively KNEW this class enjoys freedom from consequences. But now I feel it on a pitchforks-and-guillotines level, and I'm struggling to keep shrugging at the fact that it'll never change.

This was the conversation I had with my kid on the day of the Uvalde shooting.

My teenage son texted my husband and I “love you” from school last week and we both immediately panicked thinking there was a school shooting. Our country is so fucked up. He was fine, just a sweet kid who forgot to say it when he left for school. 😢

And these are the same people who say gender isn't a social construct.

Well I guess the part that baffled me was how nimby yimby mapped onto ideology, the Left Nimby being particularly elusive!

When I was her age, I had a HUGE 2-bedroom apartment near downtown for $750/month and only paid $300 bc I had a rotation of roommates. TBF that was a screaming deal even at the time, & I did fix it up quite a bit. But for her to spend twice that on a studio just 16 yrs later? It's unbelievable.

My reporting partner works just as hard as I do, but she might never own a home here just because she's 16 yrs younger. Rent is SO awful compared to when I was her age. I don't know how anyone can save up a downpayment with that sinkhole to fill.

That said, I'm cusp GenX, old enough to own a single family home on a corner lot with gardens and Halloween decorations and a big honkin garage and everything, so I do feel bad telling everyone after me, "HAHA BOO HOO YOU CANT HAVE THIS." But the present situation is completely untenable.

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Ya I was trying to imagine where the magical land of affordable single-family starter homes might be, and while some neighborhoods are definitely MORE affordable than others, none are very realistic for most of the younger adults that I know.

If the goal is to shift the norm of what's desired toward higher density, then preserving single-family starter homes would be counterproductive.

VERY speculative, over-my-skis, devil's advocacy: Maybe there's something to protecting a city's limited starter home inventory? I guess it depends on whether you accept that owning a single-family home is and always will be most people's ideal.

Like I get the narrative since it feels like high density is often the *visible* change when modest single-family neighborhoods gentrify. But logically, it shouldn't be a bigger gentrifying force than single family. If anything, the relative supply boost would help affordability.

Limit displacement? Like gentrification? I don't think I understand how high-density development in a single-family area would cause gentrification more than the low-density development that's allowed.

THANK YOU. This is what I was looking for.

This is SOOOOOO helpful!!!