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  • agree wanna join me haha by frasmcm (Wed 21st Sep 2022 6:23pm)
  • Private student halls are only expensive because a) as a sector we depend excessively on rich overseas students paying insane fees and b) there is a general housing shortage. Building dense purpose-built student housing near universities is one of the best ways to alleviate this issue and clears wealthy students out of the private rented sector where they can financially outcompete longer-term residents. by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 2:49pm)
  • Imagine actually believing that the solution to not being able to house all the students is not building more student accommodation. Do people just despise new builds based on vibes or something?? by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 2:45pm)
  • Literally yes it will. The current pressure is precisely because we haven't built *enough* of all types of housing. Just because buildings have gone up it doesn't mean they've kept up with growth in the student population or the population in general! by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 4:01pm)
  • We need more housing but it has to be dense and central not single family detached/semi detached car-dependent homes. But people hate it and shoot it down for stupid reasons as we're seeing in Shawlands rn. And halls are great if you're a student!! by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 8:26pm)
  • Hi bro would you like to connect to coordinate? I'm trying to organise a YIMBY campaign to submit comments in support of the Shawlands Arcade redevelopment. DM me if you're keen. by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 11:34pm)
  • Hi bud, please DM me so we can coordinate some support for the development and housing developments more generally. Even if there are a handful of us I think we can make a difference. by frasmcm (Thu 22nd Sep 2022 11:49pm)
  • Not letting developers just build stuff for petty/shortsighted reasons is why housing costs are so insane and there's no supply in desirable areas. 600 market-rate flats in two years is much preferable to like what, 300 with a bit of social in five years, assuming that is even achievable. Like you understand that new residents don't materialise out of thin air right? They mostly come from other parts of the city/region. And parking just makes the car problem *worse* medium-long term, in addition to decreasing density and raising costs. All of the empirical evidence is on my side, but nobody will acknowledge it, it's all just vibes. by frasmcm (Fri 23rd Sep 2022 12:04pm)
  • This is what I mean by shortsighted. Firstly, these homes do not exist yet and there is a severe shortage in the area. Nobody would be directly pushed out. As it stands, poorer people are *already being pushed out* in popular areas of the city because wealthier people can easily outcompete them during a shortage. If you don't substantially increase supply in the areas people want to live in the most, this dynamic will just get worse and worse. Secondly, the notion that adding more market-rate supply reliably increases local rents is *false* (see OP). The evidence is overwhelming on this at the metro level and pretty convincing at the hyper-local level. And, again, if you believe the science is wrong about this, I don't understand why you think adding some social housing would change the equation so dramatically because the remaining 75pc would be even more expensive. The social housing wouldn't even be an option for lower-middle income people already in the area, it would essentially be assigned by lottery. I'm extremely pro social housing, for the record. It's just that you don't need to force it into every nook and cranny of market-rate developments, because if it makes some projects unviable you get nothing. That's what the developers have suggested in this case. Maybe they're talking pish and they can get away with adding social units, but it's simply not worth the gamble and the additional time that would take. (Also, there's a difference between displacement and gentrification. Gentrification just means the overall share of wealthier people in an area rises. But this is often *necessary* to avoid displacement because the proportions change through *added supply* rather than richer people simply outcompeting poorer ones) by frasmcm (Fri 23rd Sep 2022 3:42pm)
  • DELETED lol what a great policy totally won't get loads of people evicted. So sorry you're getting fucked over /u/Glasdwarf by frasmcm (Fri 23rd Sep 2022 6:31pm)
  • Fair sorry I totally missed the context of OP!! Still sucks for them :( by frasmcm (Sat 24th Sep 2022 1:35am)
  • Would highly recommend Forevermore on Hope Street, just off Sauchiehall. Got my first piercing there (nose) a few months ago and they were brilliant :) by frasmcm (Sat 15th Oct 2022 11:54pm)
  • Seven years and counting to build the South City Way, a 3km unprotected bike path T\_T by frasmcm (Tue 31st Jan 2023 4:05pm)
  • This isn't unique to Glasgow tho, it's a problem in non-London cities all over the UK and it has to do with our horrific, overwrought planning systems and the resulting (perceived) electoral incentives of representatives at all levels. They've been talking about pedestrianising Union Street in Aberdeen for literal decades and it took the pandemic to even begin to actually do something. Means we have sprawling, car-dependent, low-productivity cities. Look how long it's taking to create the avenues - could do it in a few months rather than years if there was political will and they weren't required to consult a million "stakeholders" and the Greens are as culpable as anyone else. by frasmcm (Tue 31st Jan 2023 4:11pm)
  • there's going to be public realm space added and building dense, central housing (with no parking, where a car park used to be, with bike racks, heated with heat pumps) is much better for the environment than any mini park would be also bizarre to talk about "gentrification" in the Merchant City!! building market-rate housing in high-demand areas is beneficial on that front anyway because it prevents displacement of existing residents - the people who live here have to come from somewhere, and [the evidence suggests](https://cayimby.org/its-only-a-housing-market-if-you-can-move-evidence-from-helsinki/) that this has positive chain-reaction impacts on housing availability/affordability by frasmcm (Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:32pm)
  • the planning committee was actually split on this and the nimbys nearly won "everyone local to the site has objected to it" <- this is the case with almost every housing development in the UK and that's why we have a severe housing shortage and in terms of carbon emmissions, building dense housing with no parking (on an existing car park) and good insulation/heat pumps is a huge net benefit to the environment over and above any alternative use of the space by frasmcm (Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:36pm)
  • why? "I support housing but just not here where I live" is the essence of nimbyism and the reason we have such an acute housing issue in this country is that the planning system empowers (typically time-rich, asset-wealthy) locals to ban more people from living near them - rinse and repeat everywhere for decades (there are always trees/aesthetics/noise excuses) and you have a massive housing crisis and insane generational unfairness by frasmcm (Wed 8th Feb 2023 1:25pm)
  • haha fair "lloyds pharMAcy" by frasmcm (Wed 8th Feb 2023 2:39pm)
  • Warning that Spareroom is very rough, they get hundreds of inquiries per flat and often specify no students. However, there are quite a lot of student women only flatshares which might be the most likely way of finding something. Sorry you're having such a shit time, it's a disaster atm :( by frasmcm (Fri 24th Feb 2023 3:06pm)
  • Glasgow uni voice: "Dugs welcooooome!" by frasmcm (Thu 16th Mar 2023 12:28pm)