It’s even “funnier” that this applies to housing projects too. I have plenty of friends who have essentially started companies that sell basic construction items … like doors, cabinets, drywall … where they do ~nothing other than charge a markup to projects that need to be a certain % of projects costs to be from minority owned businesses
It adds a meaningful percentage to the cost of construction, while providing literally ZERO benefit of service other than to the owner of the license. It doesn’t change what is manufactured, or where or by who.
Just finished Abundance ... did no one else look at the floorplans?
Tahanan, the project held up as an example of innovative construction & regulations. A model of affordability bc it was built for <$400,000 per unit ... is entirely 260sf Studios!
That's $1500 per square foot!
This is what it looks like inside. It's obviously much better than living on the street ... but that's a *tiny* apartment
And this unit is specifically being held up as a *model* for how things can go RIGHT
"But if the pace and price of Tahanan were the norm, the outlook would brighten."
This project is like 2x than a traditionally built luxury highrise built by a market rate developer.
This might sound ridiculous to serious rational non-parents, but this is a situations where it doesn’t matter that much what a study “says” ... it matters much more what the people around you are doing
My wife and I have raised 3 kids (10,8 & 6), mostly downtown. All of them have attended the local assigned neighborhood public school. Our oldest is now in the City magnet school.
But >75% of our friends & neighbors send their kids to private school or homeschool
When our oldest was 18 months old, my wife started a Mom's Group at our church. Just as a place where moms could meet and talk, and where kid could run around and play somewhere warm (and safe) inside.
My siblings & I were homeschooled K-12. My brother went to MIT, my sister got into Princeton at 16, my other sister got a full scholarship for vocal performance and I went to Penn
All 4 of us are married (not to each other!) and so far, none us have chosen to homeschool our kids
My wife & her 9 siblings went to public school. We met at Penn ... so despite different paths, ended up at the same place (literally)
Homeschooling is great. I'm very glad more are doing it. I hope it get's easier. But public schools, teach things that homeschooling does not.
We, obviously, homeschooled our kids during covid. Because the idea of virtual Kindergarten was a joke
And we do assign homework to our kids outside of school ... because we don't "expect" the public schools to educate them at the level of ambitions we have for them.
$270,000 for a nursing degree from a private college with an 88% acceptance rate!?
We need a lot more nurses in this country, but this is not the way.
*necessary caveat
My wife studied nursing at at Ivy League school (expensive) both undergrad & grad and she, obviously, loved it
Nursing is a *fantastic* career path. I could not have been an entrepreneur if not for her paying our bills for the first 3 years of my company
BUT
It is not the way that MOST student should be paying for the education.
Nursing is a fixed salary career. You don't make more $$ for a more expensive degree. With a BSN/RN you can make good money as a 22 year old at a hospital
In 40 years, we’ll look back on allowing dogs in downtowns the same way we look at cars … as a terrible mistake for the way that it molded the rest of the environment
But there will be too many people who already live downtown with dogs to be able to change it
This is not their fault. Dogs are great but they shouldn’t live in DENSE downtown areas
• Use sidewalks as toilet
• Very hard of limited patches of public grass
• Many owners not good at training or cleaning
• Breeds that shouldn’t, sit inside all day