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Let’s Turn Abandoned Malls into Housing!

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 16, 2024

I fully support Rachel Cohen's ideas here about turning our many abandoned malls into housing. Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched her local community struggle for years to add new homes. Casciani grew up in upstate...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 540

By Erik Loomis

On September 8, 2019

This is the grave of James Rouse. Born in 1914 in Easton, Maryland, Rouse grew up in a well-off family, though when he was 16, his mother and father both.

bekabot Somewhere there's a bunker stocked with drugs and electronic toys, and Mr. Andressen is the only one who knows how to open the door. So you may get your wish, but I don't think he'll mind.
Let them eat opioids · April 25, 2024
Caveatimperator And it also gets a lot of pushback, most of the time. Moving might solve the problem for the individuals who move, but it doesn't solve the problem for society as a whole.
Let them eat opioids · April 25, 2024
Matt To a point, yes. But it still falls apart above that point, for a number of practical and logistical reasons, but mostly because for a sufficiently rich person the vast majority of their money is...
The Money Sickness · April 25, 2024
truffautfan I knew some people like that too. I think at my small liberal arts college you were supposed to hide it. Later one of the guys I knew lived in my same neighborhood in Brooklyn but owned a duplex. He...
The Money Sickness · April 25, 2024
Anthony I 've read your commentary (on subject matter implied) and your viewpoint is less than objective! But don't take it personally.
They hold some quarter · April 25, 2024