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Although few of its roads show up in your Rand McNally atlas, it’s almost certainly the U.S. Forest Service—not the Federal Highway Administration, not the Chinese Ministry of Transport—that is the largest road manager on earth. You could make it to the moon on Forest Service roads, and most of the way back.
Modern high-rises lack the plumbing, exterior-facing windows and internal footprint of buildings intended for housing, making it expensive and difficult to convert some buildings. But some states are trying to promote conversions by waiving development impact fees, introducing tax incentives and streamlining zoning changes to spur office-to-housing conversions.
Converting Offices to Housing Is Hard. These Changes Could Make It Easier. | the Pew Charitable Trusts
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San Francisco’s version of rent control lacks vacancy controls, which means landlords can re-set rents at whatever the market will bear when new rent-controlled tenants move in.
The logic is that with vacancy controls, landlords won’t invest in maintaining their properties. But the flipside is that the landlord also has a strong financial incentive to evict longstanding tenants who are paying below-market rates.
So every decade during a boom, there is a tragic, elderly face for the story of displacement.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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