A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it

A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian

  • 🐱TheCatEnglish
    63•2 years ago

    I really like it, I got excited. But …can we please build some for sale units in walkable areas and not just rental units? This live-by-subscription bullshit is out of hand

      • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        11•2 years ago

        To me it’s about having a real home that you can call yours. In many rental properties you can be evicted on the whim of the owner—usually not immediately but after some warning period. Vs ownership as long as you pay your bills you know you’ll have a place to live and where it will be barring some exceptional catastrophe.

      • @Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        Stability (your (fixed rate) mortgage payment doesn’t change, control (within reasonable limitations, I can mount things to walls, pour concrete in the back yard, rip up the floors and put hardwood, etc), the ability to actually pay it off and no longer have to worry about the payment (even if its a long way out for a 30 year mortgage, you build equity instead of just losing all of the money), the ability to sell the house to recoup equity (not in an investment sense, just in a, this house didnt depreciate like a car would so i can make a significant portion of what i paid back when I do decide to move), among other smaller things.

        The critical downsides in my experience are maintenance (no repair guy to fix your water heater), and being locked in, especially during turbulent economic times and personal instability (for example, it’s difficult to ‘up and move’ for a new job.)

        That being said, there are also legitimate reasons to rent, though I found as I get older, I wanted more stability, and less having to deal with a landlord dictating me (and being able to enter my house and decide how I behave) even if that means sacrificing some other aspects like better locations.

        We only live one time, and I like being able to have a home that is mine and my families, it’s given us a lot of opportunities, like being able to immigrate family members and have a place for them to live with us, something that becomes challenging when a landlord tells you that you can’t have additional tenants, for example.

        • xigoiEnglish
          0•2 years ago

          You have a missing closing parenthesis in the first sentence.

      • cooljacob204
        7•2 years ago

        You can actually fix shit. For example, I have electric heating at the moment. Power bill in winter fucking sucks. If I owned the place I would have installed split air.