Rant. Why no single fam construction? Why residential buildings and condos only? Here's my two cents.

Submitted by tuggyforme t3_11e6be4 in Newark

Condo/developments force people to follow by-laws. You have to behave a certain kind of way to have the right to continue living there. It's the perfect way of changing a city.

You can't curse inside your own home loudly or common areas (backyard, patio, hallways), you can't have solar panels, you can't use a fireplace, you can't even do a oil change on your car, you can't smoke, you can't have specific kinds of vehicles or pets, you can't speak freely even in your own home, you have to self-censor yourself, you can't BBQ outside, you can't grow container tomatoes or any other vegetables, you can't play certain types of music, and you CAN get banned/evicted from your OWN HOME that you BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, for behaving a way that the owners/boards don't want you to.

considering that the majority of new construction all over the world is no longer houses, but skyscrapers/condos/developments, it means that humans are losing their rights and freedom every year.

And they are trading MORE of their freedoms and lives to do so. If you live in one of those places, odds are, you spend the majority of your woken time working to pay for it. You are likely saving very little money if any at all. This "free" time you get at your home is the only free time you get at all, and it is no longer free.

It's kind of like forever being stuck as a little child in your daddy's house. You will forever have to listen to him and follow his rules, or you get booted to the streets. Imagine living like that your whole life? Living like a child in a home where you can't actually control your environment or live your life as you please? And by doing that, you wave your right to grow food and be able to provide the basic necessities for yourself. Allowing your entire life to get appropriated by others.

You rely on "daddy" to grow and transport your food, and you rely on "daddies" to cut down your firewood and turn it into gas for heat and stove, you rely on "daddies" to change the oil in your car, and you rely on "daddies" to come fix your plumbing problems or repair your place.

But you are not a child anymore, and these strange men are not YOUR daddy, and don't care about you. So they take massive advantage of you. They charge you illogically exorbitant amounts for rent, food, heat, car repair, and other basic necessities you have been zoned-out of providing for yourself, and you just sit there and cry at the cost of everything, like the little helpless b-tch adult you have become, while whispering to yourself in your lonely lament how "strong" and "independent" you are for trading most of your waking hours and working so hard to pay all these people to baby your dysfunctional self... like a delusional fool.

Go on.... with ya real mature independent ass 😅

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pleiop t1_jacofe3 wrote

I don't think it's that thought out. Building a rental is more profitable than a single family home. Especially in high population centers.

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GhostOfRobertTreat t1_jacuxuj wrote

Replying to pleiop (#2,104,529)

It’s 100% this. Speaking to some developers a few years back and they thought a 1BR condo would have to sell for $450k to make it more worthwhile to them than a rental. I think a 2br was pushing 600k. That was like 5 years ago.

You don’t see a lot of condos in JC right now either. It’s all rental everywhere.

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inf4mation t1_jacuzqs wrote

its about profit.

Why would someone buy land to build a single family home, when they can buy the same land and build 10-20-30-40-50+ units and collect rent forever.

You are free to buy the land and build your single family homes as you please. With your rationale of thinking, why even wait for daddy to build it, go buy the land and build it yourself.

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NewNewark t1_jad4yvf wrote

If you want to live in a single family home, Ohio has plenty of room for you

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sutisuc t1_jad5vz1 wrote

Where are they building new condos?

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toughguy375 t1_jad695j wrote

They are still building many new houses (mostly 2 family because it's Newark) in Newark outside of downtown to replace old houses that deteriorate. They are building tall apartment and condo buildings downtown because that space is valuable and a lot of people want to live there.

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2kool4tv t1_jad6unh wrote

😂😂😂 idk about all that my boy. I wish my property management would charge me for food and repairs. Shit that’s half of the luxury of renting. I ain’t paying to fix shit and I ain’t paying rent till it’s fixed.

Dog I lived in like 3 dope ass lofts and newark and I’m changing locations like draws depending on how I feel that year.

Ultimately that’s 1 way of looking at it but people are moving out of the sticks to the city’s again. Ain’t enough land for everyone to have a SFH. It’s primarily about profit and secondarily about zoning and homing. We can’t say ain’t enough housing and build mad SFH’s.

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NeoLephty t1_jad98ah wrote

You’re thinking too hard. Developers want to get the most money they can for their money. They can build 4 houses in a block or a large building with 40 stories and 600 studio’s for rent.

It’s not a big plot to change who you are or how you function, it’s just capitalism.

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mdt2113 t1_jad9dcu wrote

"you can't speak freely even in your own home"

What are you talking about? I own a condo and can say whatever I want.

If you need to scream and curse so loudly and often that you get booted from a condo, housing diversification is the least of your problems.

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marceljj t1_jadcznw wrote

it's because newark is a city, there's plenty of single family homes all over the state

if there's one thing american cities don't need any more of, it's single family homes

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