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by desert_boi
2336 days ago
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San Francisco's problems have rippled out to places like Boise, ID and Reno, NV. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/business/economy/reno-gro... Both of these cities (and metros) are low density (1,049.64 people per sq. km). They're filled with complaints about traffic and growth. NIMBYs don't want to build up. In Boise, condos are almost exclusively limited to 6 stories, max. Three quarters of downtown is parking lots or roads. Folks from outer burbs (Meridian and Eagle) don't want to lose parking, and transit is terrible. A bus runs the 5km between Downtown Boise and the airport every 40 minutes. I think the housing crisis is uniquely painful in the States because of the weird confluence between investing and culture around urban cores, inner burbs, and outer burbs. |
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