holy fricking based. did you dig or drive it by hand, or pay to get it drilled? hand pump, bucket and pulley, or electric pump? how deep is it?
7 months ago
Anonymous
Please don't blaspheme my Lord's name. My late grandfather had it dug back in the 70s, 25 meters (82ft) Since then it had a sheet metal construction over it and now its rotten. My dad and I just built the rock and wood construction. It uses a pump but also has a bucket and pulley for watermelon/beer.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Please don't blaspheme my Lord's name.
sorry mate >25 meters (82ft)
i thought manual pumps couldn't pull for further than 8 meters/26 feet because air pressure. so i'm guessing it's electric? >It uses a pump but also has a bucket and pulley for watermelon/beer.
can you explain this?
also be careful about posting pictures of you/your dad on this website
7 months ago
Anonymous
Thank you!
Never had a hand pump so idk. Ye its electric and we have a long power cable we draw from the shed.
Well theres the electric pump with hose to draw water to a storage tank, and the thing wrapped in plastic you saw hanging in the pic is a log with a handle outside. We can put a rope on it and turn the handle to lower/raise it. Since we don't need it to get water, we'll probably tie sacks/nets of beer, fruit, or anything we want cooled.
Thank you for the concern.
7 months ago
Anonymous
makes sense, and thank you for the sick well pictures
7 months ago
Anonymous
>i thought manual pumps couldn't pull for further than 8 meters/26 feet because air pressure. so i'm guessing it's electric?
manual pumps can pull from deeper than that limit, but not if they operate solely on suction the way that common pitcher pumps do.
7 months ago
Anonymous
https://i.imgur.com/oqo5ch5.png
Is there a word for this type of houses?
> looks like where the Mexican Teletubbies would live
Dirt on top retains uncontrollable amounts of water for an uncontrollable amount of time. >"can't rinse the gutters if the whole roof is a clogged gutter :^) now gibs me the insurance"
This winter i will do my best to catch all kinds of influenza and then I will hang out with boomers. There was 4 billion of us in the 80s when things start to go bad, there are 8 billion of us now. Childhood vaccination program should be discouraged, especially in the third world, stop giving them free food and vaccines -- the only free poke they should get is birth control. Disease is a natural result of over crowding. Our overall population will be physically and mentally healthier if we bring back common disease to keep us culled then wait till we get overcrowded into mental instability and cancer from pollution (which is a natural result of more people than trees).
What's the point of making statements like that? Earth's population is dynamic system with cycles, which can take up to hundreds of years.
It's like zooming sinusoid plot and saying: "Yeap, that's a line".
These India, china, Africa lines are all following the western countries including japan/Asia allies. They're just a generation or two behind. Population collapse is here forevermore
>development causes the drop in birth rates
What if malsocialization brought upon by the madness of modern society is causing people to be unable to form normal human bonds and have families, and the economic development was only coincidental to the real issue?
Even poor people in third world shitholes can have their kids raised by madness inducing screens now.
im sorry but thats against state building codes that are all geared toward approved building materials and state wiring and plumbing im sure the home owners associate wont allow it either
What, is there some kind of loophole that allows you to build two or more of those in a lot that's zoned for single family home? Do you stack several of those on top of one another in the middle of the city?
Or do you build that out in the woods and then realize that it's too far away from everything to be an everyday home, so you start marketing them as vacation homes for rich hipsters and scrap the whole "fight the housing crisis" angle?
OP is a memer, but the "housing crisis" doesn't exist in the USA. If there was a "housing crisis", then wouldn't we see HCOL areas where their way of life collapsed because they can't get nurses, waiters, janitors, etc ?
The "crisis" is a meme for whiny greedy morons who don't have any marketable skills or common sense.
> If there was a "housing crisis", then wouldn't we see HCOL areas where their way of life collapsed because they can't get nurses, waiters, janitors, etc ?
Instead you just see those people commuting 4+ hours a day and/or spending 50% of their income on rent
The areas where the housing is that expensive are not going to be helped by taking up surface area with single-residence units. Those need arcologies, not some hobbit hovel.
>and/or spending 50% of their income on rent
Making twice as much money and then spending twice as much on rent still leaves you far ahead of the alternative, which is why people are still doing it instead of just living in smaller cities.
How can you solve a 'crisis' that doesn't exist?
By removing the heavy artificial limits on development in districts that desperately need more housing. There's demand, there's people willing and able to build, there's space available that is either not or poorly utilized, the only thing preventing people from building is municipal government overreach and convoluted zoning regulations stifling development. Even if it doesn't decrease prices at all, twice as many people living within an hour commute instead of four hour is still a large improvement.
This is getting into economics rather than urban planning but you can only treat revealed preferences as meaningful when compared to the actual alternatives. People have a stated preference to not spend most of their non-sleep non-work life commuting to and from work but a revealed preference to earn the money a four hour commute gets them, but what is that revealed preference being chosen over? Homelessness or starvation? Not being able to send their kid to college? Giving up your career because your place of work near your current house closed? You can't treat people choosing absurd commutes or overspending on housing as evidence that those things are good, just that the available alternatives are worse, and neither has any bearing on whether the market is able to supply housing in proportion to demand. If the demand significantly outstrips the supply to the point where it is making a lot of people's lives noticeably worse, you can call that a crisis if you want, or at least it becomes a question of semantics rather than existence. Maybe you don't think it meets the definition of a crisis, but if there is a potential to improve a lot of people's lives by solving a problem it is worth looking into whether you call it that or not.
>and/or spending 50% of their income on rent
Making twice as much money and then spending twice as much on rent still leaves you far ahead of the alternative, which is why people are still doing it instead of just living in smaller cities.
Monetary problem, not a housing problem. Reminder, median household income in 1970 was 235oz of gold. In reality housing has been in freefall for decades, wages have just declined faster because you dumb goyim bought the lie that debasement is anything other than a parasitic transfer of resources from income earners to oligarchs.
that is at least mostly true but is also only tangential to the problem of housing supply. If housing demand is high enough and supply low enough that people have to spend half their pay check on it, housing will cost half the average pay check whether that's 50k or 100k a year
>only tangential to the problem of housing supply
False. Supply is low only because workers incomes have been in freefall since '71, just look at the pathetic excuse of building materials now. Return to real money and the problem fixes itself
6 months ago
Anonymous
A lot of the high demand areas (at least California) don't have enough water to support further development so that is one of the environmental considerations in the impact study that adds like 5-15 years to construction schedules.
6 months ago
Anonymous
homosexual, desalinization is literally cheaper then pumping water over a few hundred miles. You bought the psyop, you're a smoothbrain goyBlack person and will always be a slave
6 months ago
Anonymous
You got a lot of cheap power in California?
The problem is you're not allowed to build in California because of all the good got rules you homosexual. So when all the b***hes whine about the housing crisis its because the government has a sign that says frick off we're full when new builders come in and want to develop unless they are well connected or do some other bullshit like plant 100 trees for every house and only build one new dwelling unit for everyone they tear down
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yes. You don't need prime energy for desalinization, you can use low grade thermal i.e. waste heat >housing crisis
Houses have never been cheaper:
https://i.imgur.com/306R7hn.png
Monetary problem, not a housing problem. Reminder, median household income in 1970 was 235oz of gold. In reality housing has been in freefall for decades, wages have just declined faster because you dumb goyim bought the lie that debasement is anything other than a parasitic transfer of resources from income earners to oligarchs.
. You will always be a slave as you refuse to see your chains
6 months ago
Anonymous
>power is cheap in California because i can win an argument on the internet
The housing crisis isn't real.
Normal homes are already cheap as frick to build, the problem is rich people and governments treating real estate as investments instead of a basic necessity
What does that even mean?
Are you one of those "money is theft" people?
Their house is the main source of wealth and net worth for the average American.
There are some more middle of the road, common sense policies that could help to soften the housing market. Here's only a few of them:
- increased mix use zoning,
- changing how property tax works to shift the burden towards investors rather than resident owners
- making renting more onerous by greatly expanding tenants rights and protections
>boomer rambling incoming
I've lived in a black neighborhood that had at one time been "redlined" by the banking industry many decades ago. Even though those policies officially stopped long ago, the price of houses in this area is still defined by how much a bank would lend to a potential buyer. Banks say that houses in this area are worth $50K max because that's all that anyone is paying. But that's all that anyone CAN pay because that's all that a bank will lend. Consequently, it wasn't worth the investment to upkeep or upgrade any of these houses in a meaningful way..... A homeowner would basically be flushing their money down the toilet, because no amount of investing in their home turned into a potential future return.
The end result is that most of the houses in this neighborhood are in advanced stages of decay. People let them rot because they can't afford to do anything else because the houses can't increase in value.
In the larger economy, everything is connected-- and the price of materials, engineers, contractors labor, etc is all buoyed by high house prices which are themselves buoyed by the big govt and big banks providing loans at low interest rates so that average people can afford average modern prices. You can't just "reset" what is happening with house prices without a much larger reset that affects entire sectors of the economy. This house of cards took a long time to make, and now we LIVE IN it.
>black neighborhood >price of houses are defined by how much a bank would lend
False. Cash buyers are snapping up houses all over. If all they are willing to pay is $50k it's probably for other reasons like violent crime.
>mortgage rates drop to crazy lows during covid, increasing the purchase price that an average buyer/borrower can afford >house prices rise to crazy highs in proportion to the increase in purchasing power of these borrowers
It's not a coincidence. The idea that cash buyers always bridge the gap and make financialization of the process irrelevant is simply incorrect.
No one is paying more than $50K for these houses because they're only worth $50K. The reason that they're only worth $50K is because you can't sell them to someone else for more than $50K. It's a circle.
There are absolutely willing would-be buyers out there who would love to get into a cheap as frick house, regardless of the melanin or other issues, but they can't because they can't get a loan.
If what your saying is true, then redlining, credit scores/ratings, and all kinds of other financial phenomena would be completely meaningless because cash buyers would always equalize a market.
>buyers out there who would love to get into a cheap as frick house but can't get a loan
You said earlier that the banks ARE willing to lend the $50k. >redlining
Always been a bullshit claim. The reality is that banks don't want to lend to buyers who won't make payments.
The cost of the actual house is not the reason for high prices, it's the land. The solution is a combination of high-density housing for existing desirable areas, and improved infrastructure to make other areas more desirable. If people can get a high-speed rail into a city, they won't feel the need to live directly in the city itself, which puts less pressure on property prices.
>high-density
stabbed >high-speed rail
stabbed again, dies, perp is released
There is no solution when it's privately owned real estate.
Historically, people were killing each other over land.
Now we have laws preventing that, mostly.
All your pot smoking reddit dreams of "high density" developments and whatever other horse shit you actually paid for a degree in to listen to for, is dreams of socialists who want to claim the land is government property.
Doesn't work out that way in real life.
You zoomers see these big heckin' cities and think "wow I could totally improve that!" as if you're the first person to spawn in and think about anything at all.
>Doesn't work out that way in real life.
So why are cities full of high density housing
Because "investors" from reddit who bought the property lots decided to make your heckin' high rise dream immigrant sardine can allocations and the heckin' cities approved the heckin' designerinos.
You act like this is all a big frickin' mystery.
[...]
There is no solution when it's privately owned real estate.
Historically, people were killing each other over land.
Now we have laws preventing that, mostly.
All your pot smoking reddit dreams of "high density" developments and whatever other horse shit you actually paid for a degree in to listen to for, is dreams of socialists who want to claim the land is government property.
Doesn't work out that way in real life.
You zoomers see these big heckin' cities and think "wow I could totally improve that!" as if you're the first person to spawn in and think about anything at all.
what
it's the government that stops investors from just building high density (it would make more money for them)
this is the free market solution to the problem
Wrong. The solution is, not piling into cities, but sprawling around cities. There is no reason to concentrate all the office buildings and the housing in the dense, expensive downtown when you can just scatter them across the cheaper outskirts.
Total Greenbelt Death.
The actual solution is to rope leftists to reduce the population + end the leftist policies that caused this in the first place.
>they won't feel the need to live directly in the city itself, which puts less pressure on property prices.
Frick you, city people voted for this housing crisis so they alone should have to deal with it. Why should my suburb get ruined just to save leftists from themselves?
the answer to this is a rejection of a structuring of labor that forces people to live in dense areas so they can sit in front of a screen all day and have teams calls with people in other states/countries.
The solution? It's very very obvious how to make house prices come down. All you fricking idiots acting like it's completely up natural for your country to be overrun by foreigners makes it impossible for you to see the obvious. House prices are a function of interest rates, population, and building/land. Birth rates in all western nations are below replacement. Logically there should be spare houses everywhere. Governments have full control of immigration. They choose to make it extremely high. There's no reason to do this in terms of helping the average citizen. No one voted for it. No one actually likes it. You're all honestly cattle for putting up with it. Get vaxxed, get a mortgage, and live among the poos and bugs.
Earthships.
The earthships in Taos are uberbased,
It’s all function over form, but it’s so unique and effecient that it loops back around to being cool looking again
why would i want to live in an "earthship community" when i can just live in the middle of nowhere off the grid and build one for myself only
also, do earthships make sense in forested areas with colder climates, like the northwestern united states?
Dirty little secret about Earthship communities: there's zero diversity and the hippies who lives there do nothing to change that. It's like they found a loophole in their ideology's tolerance requirements.
Those aren't earthships, it's simply an earth bermed house. These homes existed before the 60s when they started building earthships as a combination of a variety of already established ecological principles and passive design strategies. The only point of difference was using old tires rammed with earth for the walls.
high speed rail is not a solution in North America. US population centers have much larger miles-of-track per connected person ratio than eurorail does. The housing shortage in the US applies to high-growth cities with low existing stock (Dallas, Houston, etc.), which are often already interconnected with freeway that isn't exposed to high traffic, and high-speed rail enables sprawl into middle distances which are generally agricultural land. Better local transit solutions (self-driving cars, subway) and fixing stupid zoning regulations to allow mixed-use districts in order to increase density while minimizing vehicular travel is the answer.
Dirty little secret about Earthship communities: there's zero diversity and the hippies who lives there do nothing to change that. It's like they found a loophole in their ideology's tolerance requirements.
apparently you don't. you just assume that tires which are a few years old stop offgassing and releasing toxic chemicals. although if the tires did leech chemicals, it wouldn't go into the plants or water unless you made the rainwater cisterns out of tires. it would go into the 300lbs of dirt that's packed inside them to make the thermal mass. so it's probably safe.
Just completed my first chicken tractor coop. The goal was to make a tractor for 15-20 birds for under 200$ using mostly OSB, 2x3s and hardware cloth.
4x8' footprint with space for 6 nesting boxes or 3 boxes and a roost ladder. Automatic watering system has 3 waterers inside and 3 outside. It can accept gravity fed water from 1-5 psi without a regulator and includes overflow and drainage valves for cleaning and emptying the loop before winter frost.
I'll be picking up 5 birds this weekend. I plan to line the floor of the coop with lump charcoal and then straw.
Anyone else keep chickens in a diy coop? Got any tips or advice for my setup?
Lol I posted this as a comment on accident, there's a thread for it now.
[...]
But it's relevant enough not to delete.
The charcoal soaks up nitrogen and after 1-2 years you can cycle it out and use it for soil enrichment. Should be OK as long as my chickies don't take up smoking in bed
I heard in the middle ages, the floor of most people's home was mud, lined with reeds from the river that they replace regularly -- not sustainable with our population now.
I was going to suggest you line the fence with rocks but that would be a pain to relocate along with the tractor. How about a plywood skirt or something that extends maybe 2 feet out? You could make it so it folds up for easy transport. Just a thought.
>earthships
Only a fricking moron that doesn’t work a trade would think this lobotomized hippy shit is a good idea. Unless you use heavy equipment; digging out an area for the ‘house’ and all of the dirt needed to cover it will take forever, and the process will be hugely dependent on the soil type and rock inclusion. Good luck building some dumb shit like that in a reasonable time frame with only hand tools if you’re hitting sheets of slate rock every other minute, then running the plumbing and electrical, etc. and getting future access will be a fricking pain. Not to mention, if you live in a place like Florida and have a water table like a foot below the dirt, you’ll be swimming neck deep before you ever dig out a hole deep enough for an ‘earth ship’. The only viable future of housing, is a more streamlined and efficient one; made to order houses in factories, delivered to you and installed on site or even possibly homes that are molded or 3D printed, but definitely not living in a human mole hill like a deluded homosexual.
I think this would be good for the CanadianNorth though, for single people who want to live in the wilderness and minimalize impact, all the houses facing one direction means easy privacy, but help and companionship is also close.
>hitting sheets of slate rock
Why the "slate rock"? Is it otherwise possible to hit sheets of non-rock slate? What other slates can you find while digging? Is this something ((they)) don't want us to know?
yeah because 3 retaining walls and removing 50x as much earth is cheaper than a normal house...fricking dumbfricks
You push the dirt onto the sides. You don't dig out of a hill.
What is the source of the dirt?
From leveling, foundation digging, etc
So something like this then?
Ayy my well! Thank you for saving it! :^)
holy fricking based. did you dig or drive it by hand, or pay to get it drilled? hand pump, bucket and pulley, or electric pump? how deep is it?
Please don't blaspheme my Lord's name. My late grandfather had it dug back in the 70s, 25 meters (82ft) Since then it had a sheet metal construction over it and now its rotten. My dad and I just built the rock and wood construction. It uses a pump but also has a bucket and pulley for watermelon/beer.
>Please don't blaspheme my Lord's name.
sorry mate
>25 meters (82ft)
i thought manual pumps couldn't pull for further than 8 meters/26 feet because air pressure. so i'm guessing it's electric?
>It uses a pump but also has a bucket and pulley for watermelon/beer.
can you explain this?
also be careful about posting pictures of you/your dad on this website
Thank you!
Never had a hand pump so idk. Ye its electric and we have a long power cable we draw from the shed.
Well theres the electric pump with hose to draw water to a storage tank, and the thing wrapped in plastic you saw hanging in the pic is a log with a handle outside. We can put a rope on it and turn the handle to lower/raise it. Since we don't need it to get water, we'll probably tie sacks/nets of beer, fruit, or anything we want cooled.
Thank you for the concern.
makes sense, and thank you for the sick well pictures
>i thought manual pumps couldn't pull for further than 8 meters/26 feet because air pressure. so i'm guessing it's electric?
manual pumps can pull from deeper than that limit, but not if they operate solely on suction the way that common pitcher pumps do.
> looks like where the Mexican Teletubbies would live
they do. it's called a mud hut. pretty popular in africa
>mud hut
>popular in africa
Not a fair comparison because it’s illegal to build a mud hut in USA.
its not illegal to build an earth sheltered home in the USA.
>mud hut
>earth sheltered home
Couldn’t be more different.
the housing crisis
>yeah because 3 retaining walls and removing 50x as much earth is cheaper than a normal house...fricking dumbfricks
It's a matter of having the right ground
?si=III6Ws5sf23debVq
(English sbtitles ON)
That's why you can't get permits to build them anon
Dirt on top retains uncontrollable amounts of water for an uncontrollable amount of time.
>"can't rinse the gutters if the whole roof is a clogged gutter :^) now gibs me the insurance"
Pic related is the real solution to housing shortages.
shooting millennials?
I'm in.
>no millennials, no xoomers, no boomers
>just zoomers
What could go wrong?
As long as there's enough runners to turn into food, everything operates just fine.
it would be walking dead minus the zombies within 2 weeks
This winter i will do my best to catch all kinds of influenza and then I will hang out with boomers. There was 4 billion of us in the 80s when things start to go bad, there are 8 billion of us now. Childhood vaccination program should be discouraged, especially in the third world, stop giving them free food and vaccines -- the only free poke they should get is birth control. Disease is a natural result of over crowding. Our overall population will be physically and mentally healthier if we bring back common disease to keep us culled then wait till we get overcrowded into mental instability and cancer from pollution (which is a natural result of more people than trees).
Take your meds
Can we do one that is just for poors and unproductive members of society?
Sure but why do you want to kill us all?
Just call them Black folk.
This, everyone who's not israeli and makes less than $300k gets the bullet.
If only you knew how bad it actually was
moral of the story: the world is going to be mostly african, again.
What's the point of making statements like that? Earth's population is dynamic system with cycles, which can take up to hundreds of years.
It's like zooming sinusoid plot and saying: "Yeap, that's a line".
These India, china, Africa lines are all following the western countries including japan/Asia allies. They're just a generation or two behind. Population collapse is here forevermore
These models always assume africa will develop. They won't so their fertility is never gonna floor.
>development causes the drop in birth rates
What if malsocialization brought upon by the madness of modern society is causing people to be unable to form normal human bonds and have families, and the economic development was only coincidental to the real issue?
Even poor people in third world shitholes can have their kids raised by madness inducing screens now.
I can run.
RENEW! RENEEEEEW!!
This is precisely why I am so anti-vaxx, why put myself at risk to basically save old people. The great boomer doomer must prosper.
im sorry but thats against state building codes that are all geared toward approved building materials and state wiring and plumbing im sure the home owners associate wont allow it either
Seems like the kind of place where someone might be tempted to film (and/or take part in) homosexual pornnography.
Best part is you can let the migrants and homeless camp on your "roof".
What, is there some kind of loophole that allows you to build two or more of those in a lot that's zoned for single family home? Do you stack several of those on top of one another in the middle of the city?
Or do you build that out in the woods and then realize that it's too far away from everything to be an everyday home, so you start marketing them as vacation homes for rich hipsters and scrap the whole "fight the housing crisis" angle?
OP is a memer, but the "housing crisis" doesn't exist in the USA. If there was a "housing crisis", then wouldn't we see HCOL areas where their way of life collapsed because they can't get nurses, waiters, janitors, etc ?
The "crisis" is a meme for whiny greedy morons who don't have any marketable skills or common sense.
> If there was a "housing crisis", then wouldn't we see HCOL areas where their way of life collapsed because they can't get nurses, waiters, janitors, etc ?
Instead you just see those people commuting 4+ hours a day and/or spending 50% of their income on rent
The areas where the housing is that expensive are not going to be helped by taking up surface area with single-residence units. Those need arcologies, not some hobbit hovel.
yes, OP is just joking and/or moronic
By removing the heavy artificial limits on development in districts that desperately need more housing. There's demand, there's people willing and able to build, there's space available that is either not or poorly utilized, the only thing preventing people from building is municipal government overreach and convoluted zoning regulations stifling development. Even if it doesn't decrease prices at all, twice as many people living within an hour commute instead of four hour is still a large improvement.
This is getting into economics rather than urban planning but you can only treat revealed preferences as meaningful when compared to the actual alternatives. People have a stated preference to not spend most of their non-sleep non-work life commuting to and from work but a revealed preference to earn the money a four hour commute gets them, but what is that revealed preference being chosen over? Homelessness or starvation? Not being able to send their kid to college? Giving up your career because your place of work near your current house closed? You can't treat people choosing absurd commutes or overspending on housing as evidence that those things are good, just that the available alternatives are worse, and neither has any bearing on whether the market is able to supply housing in proportion to demand. If the demand significantly outstrips the supply to the point where it is making a lot of people's lives noticeably worse, you can call that a crisis if you want, or at least it becomes a question of semantics rather than existence. Maybe you don't think it meets the definition of a crisis, but if there is a potential to improve a lot of people's lives by solving a problem it is worth looking into whether you call it that or not.
>How can you solve a 'crisis' that doesn't exist?
It's a rhetorical question you dumb frick
Ahh, the "You're the stupid one for assuming I had anything more than surface level thoughts" defence, sorry I should have known
>and/or spending 50% of their income on rent
Making twice as much money and then spending twice as much on rent still leaves you far ahead of the alternative, which is why people are still doing it instead of just living in smaller cities.
How can you solve a 'crisis' that doesn't exist?
Monetary problem, not a housing problem. Reminder, median household income in 1970 was 235oz of gold. In reality housing has been in freefall for decades, wages have just declined faster because you dumb goyim bought the lie that debasement is anything other than a parasitic transfer of resources from income earners to oligarchs.
that is at least mostly true but is also only tangential to the problem of housing supply. If housing demand is high enough and supply low enough that people have to spend half their pay check on it, housing will cost half the average pay check whether that's 50k or 100k a year
Housing bubbles. Also renting is more profitable than selling so there is value in pricing people out of buying houses.
>only tangential to the problem of housing supply
False. Supply is low only because workers incomes have been in freefall since '71, just look at the pathetic excuse of building materials now. Return to real money and the problem fixes itself
A lot of the high demand areas (at least California) don't have enough water to support further development so that is one of the environmental considerations in the impact study that adds like 5-15 years to construction schedules.
homosexual, desalinization is literally cheaper then pumping water over a few hundred miles. You bought the psyop, you're a smoothbrain goyBlack person and will always be a slave
You got a lot of cheap power in California?
The problem is you're not allowed to build in California because of all the good got rules you homosexual. So when all the b***hes whine about the housing crisis its because the government has a sign that says frick off we're full when new builders come in and want to develop unless they are well connected or do some other bullshit like plant 100 trees for every house and only build one new dwelling unit for everyone they tear down
Yes. You don't need prime energy for desalinization, you can use low grade thermal i.e. waste heat
>housing crisis
Houses have never been cheaper:
. You will always be a slave as you refuse to see your chains
>power is cheap in California because i can win an argument on the internet
Mc. Frickon have a nice day
This is happening in some places. I lived in Bend OR, they had a lot of issues.
im not a teletubby you dick
>the solution is single construction of new single family housing
no
Why don't we just kick out all the Mexicans and make abortion free for blacks
The housing crisis isn't real.
Normal homes are already cheap as frick to build, the problem is rich people and governments treating real estate as investments instead of a basic necessity
This. Stop treating housing as a commodity to profit from.
Why should someone who can profit choose not to? Because loserpoors are butthurt?
What does that even mean?
Are you one of those "money is theft" people?
Their house is the main source of wealth and net worth for the average American.
There are some more middle of the road, common sense policies that could help to soften the housing market. Here's only a few of them:
- increased mix use zoning,
- changing how property tax works to shift the burden towards investors rather than resident owners
- making renting more onerous by greatly expanding tenants rights and protections
>boomer rambling incoming
I've lived in a black neighborhood that had at one time been "redlined" by the banking industry many decades ago. Even though those policies officially stopped long ago, the price of houses in this area is still defined by how much a bank would lend to a potential buyer. Banks say that houses in this area are worth $50K max because that's all that anyone is paying. But that's all that anyone CAN pay because that's all that a bank will lend. Consequently, it wasn't worth the investment to upkeep or upgrade any of these houses in a meaningful way..... A homeowner would basically be flushing their money down the toilet, because no amount of investing in their home turned into a potential future return.
The end result is that most of the houses in this neighborhood are in advanced stages of decay. People let them rot because they can't afford to do anything else because the houses can't increase in value.
In the larger economy, everything is connected-- and the price of materials, engineers, contractors labor, etc is all buoyed by high house prices which are themselves buoyed by the big govt and big banks providing loans at low interest rates so that average people can afford average modern prices. You can't just "reset" what is happening with house prices without a much larger reset that affects entire sectors of the economy. This house of cards took a long time to make, and now we LIVE IN it.
>black neighborhood
>price of houses are defined by how much a bank would lend
False. Cash buyers are snapping up houses all over. If all they are willing to pay is $50k it's probably for other reasons like violent crime.
>mortgage rates drop to crazy lows during covid, increasing the purchase price that an average buyer/borrower can afford
>house prices rise to crazy highs in proportion to the increase in purchasing power of these borrowers
It's not a coincidence. The idea that cash buyers always bridge the gap and make financialization of the process irrelevant is simply incorrect.
No one is paying more than $50K for these houses because they're only worth $50K. The reason that they're only worth $50K is because you can't sell them to someone else for more than $50K. It's a circle.
There are absolutely willing would-be buyers out there who would love to get into a cheap as frick house, regardless of the melanin or other issues, but they can't because they can't get a loan.
If what your saying is true, then redlining, credit scores/ratings, and all kinds of other financial phenomena would be completely meaningless because cash buyers would always equalize a market.
>buyers out there who would love to get into a cheap as frick house but can't get a loan
You said earlier that the banks ARE willing to lend the $50k.
>redlining
Always been a bullshit claim. The reality is that banks don't want to lend to buyers who won't make payments.
Pack bags of dirt in the walls in place of the fiberglass insulation. It'll work just as well or even better
>a housing crisis appears
>anon uses "lower standards to tolerate living in a hole in the ground"
>it's not very effective
Underrated
gem
c'est incredible
beautiful
RETVRN TO HOBBIT
The cost of the actual house is not the reason for high prices, it's the land. The solution is a combination of high-density housing for existing desirable areas, and improved infrastructure to make other areas more desirable. If people can get a high-speed rail into a city, they won't feel the need to live directly in the city itself, which puts less pressure on property prices.
>high-density
stabbed
>high-speed rail
stabbed again, dies, perp is released
There is no solution when it's privately owned real estate.
Historically, people were killing each other over land.
Now we have laws preventing that, mostly.
All your pot smoking reddit dreams of "high density" developments and whatever other horse shit you actually paid for a degree in to listen to for, is dreams of socialists who want to claim the land is government property.
Doesn't work out that way in real life.
You zoomers see these big heckin' cities and think "wow I could totally improve that!" as if you're the first person to spawn in and think about anything at all.
>Doesn't work out that way in real life.
So why are cities full of high density housing
Because some people prefer it.
Because "investors" from reddit who bought the property lots decided to make your heckin' high rise dream immigrant sardine can allocations and the heckin' cities approved the heckin' designerinos.
You act like this is all a big frickin' mystery.
Is your entive vocabulary just internet buzzwords
Zoomer tards think buzzword itself isn't a buzzword
take a chill pill bro
what
it's the government that stops investors from just building high density (it would make more money for them)
this is the free market solution to the problem
Wrong. The solution is, not piling into cities, but sprawling around cities. There is no reason to concentrate all the office buildings and the housing in the dense, expensive downtown when you can just scatter them across the cheaper outskirts.
Total Greenbelt Death.
Hence
>and improved infrastructure to make other areas more desirable
The actual solution is to rope leftists to reduce the population + end the leftist policies that caused this in the first place.
>they won't feel the need to live directly in the city itself, which puts less pressure on property prices.
Frick you, city people voted for this housing crisis so they alone should have to deal with it. Why should my suburb get ruined just to save leftists from themselves?
the answer to this is a rejection of a structuring of labor that forces people to live in dense areas so they can sit in front of a screen all day and have teams calls with people in other states/countries.
t. remote worker
The solution? It's very very obvious how to make house prices come down. All you fricking idiots acting like it's completely up natural for your country to be overrun by foreigners makes it impossible for you to see the obvious. House prices are a function of interest rates, population, and building/land. Birth rates in all western nations are below replacement. Logically there should be spare houses everywhere. Governments have full control of immigration. They choose to make it extremely high. There's no reason to do this in terms of helping the average citizen. No one voted for it. No one actually likes it. You're all honestly cattle for putting up with it. Get vaxxed, get a mortgage, and live among the poos and bugs.
Is there a word for this type of houses?
Zemunica in Serbian
the most insulated object in serbia until styrofoam insulation showed up in the 80s
Earthships.
The earthships in Taos are uberbased,
It’s all function over form, but it’s so unique and effecient that it loops back around to being cool looking again
>Earthships
i have conducted a review of this topic and found it to be extremely fricking based
why would i want to live in an "earthship community" when i can just live in the middle of nowhere off the grid and build one for myself only
also, do earthships make sense in forested areas with colder climates, like the northwestern united states?
meant for
i only see them in hot desertic places
I live in a hot desert area and I've never seen one.
>do earthships make sense in forested areas with colder climates, like the northwestern united states?
Taos is a ski resort so colder is fine
But
It has to be in a sunny spot
If your winters are cloudy they they are useless
Those aren't earthships, it's simply an earth bermed house. These homes existed before the 60s when they started building earthships as a combination of a variety of already established ecological principles and passive design strategies. The only point of difference was using old tires rammed with earth for the walls.
false
teletubby crib lookin ass
>STOP GIVING GOVERNMETN GIBS TO RENTAL HOUSING AND ONLY PUT IT INTO "PURCHASEABLE HOUSING"
housing crisis solved
>STOP GIVING GOVERNMETN GIBS
stopped reading there
Teletubbymaxxing
and the plumber employment crisis i'm sure
The housing crisis exists because regulations prevent people from building new houses.
>the housing crisis exists
because a wide open border grows the population beyond sustainable levels.
high speed rail is not a solution in North America. US population centers have much larger miles-of-track per connected person ratio than eurorail does. The housing shortage in the US applies to high-growth cities with low existing stock (Dallas, Houston, etc.), which are often already interconnected with freeway that isn't exposed to high traffic, and high-speed rail enables sprawl into middle distances which are generally agricultural land. Better local transit solutions (self-driving cars, subway) and fixing stupid zoning regulations to allow mixed-use districts in order to increase density while minimizing vehicular travel is the answer.
Post cool earthships.
imagone the humity
I like the idea but earthship is such a gay fricking name
>cool earthships
That's an oxymoron you megamoron
Dirty little secret about Earthship communities: there's zero diversity and the hippies who lives there do nothing to change that. It's like they found a loophole in their ideology's tolerance requirements.
Old cans and glass bottles are safe, but how do you deal with tires leaking shit into your garden and water?
apparently you don't. you just assume that tires which are a few years old stop offgassing and releasing toxic chemicals. although if the tires did leech chemicals, it wouldn't go into the plants or water unless you made the rainwater cisterns out of tires. it would go into the 300lbs of dirt that's packed inside them to make the thermal mass. so it's probably safe.
Theres a reason these were designed for a desert. Less water to spread around anything unpleasant from the trash you use to build the house.
The non-moron reason being that they require low humidity and a high diurnal temperature variation to realize the energy efficiencies in the design
Gotta love the estructural beer bottles
Heineken made these bottles that can be used as bricks.
Turns out that houses with glass walls get quite hot.
Why they are installed upside down?
they're upside down so they won't fill up with water
>beer can mud walls
Most redneck thing I've seen in weeks.
>this house that's harder to build, requires more space and is only viable in a few areas is going to solve a global crisis.
Just completed my first chicken tractor coop. The goal was to make a tractor for 15-20 birds for under 200$ using mostly OSB, 2x3s and hardware cloth.
4x8' footprint with space for 6 nesting boxes or 3 boxes and a roost ladder. Automatic watering system has 3 waterers inside and 3 outside. It can accept gravity fed water from 1-5 psi without a regulator and includes overflow and drainage valves for cleaning and emptying the loop before winter frost.
I'll be picking up 5 birds this weekend. I plan to line the floor of the coop with lump charcoal and then straw.
Anyone else keep chickens in a diy coop? Got any tips or advice for my setup?
>I plan to line the floor of the coop with lump charcoal and then straw.
Multi-purpose coop/grill.
Lol I posted this as a comment on accident, there's a thread for it now.
But it's relevant enough not to delete.
The charcoal soaks up nitrogen and after 1-2 years you can cycle it out and use it for soil enrichment. Should be OK as long as my chickies don't take up smoking in bed
I heard in the middle ages, the floor of most people's home was mud, lined with reeds from the river that they replace regularly -- not sustainable with our population now.
I can't tell, is there wire on the bottom? If not, it's not fox proof at all, they'll dig straight under it.
I was going to suggest you line the fence with rocks but that would be a pain to relocate along with the tractor. How about a plywood skirt or something that extends maybe 2 feet out? You could make it so it folds up for easy transport. Just a thought.
>earthships
Only a fricking moron that doesn’t work a trade would think this lobotomized hippy shit is a good idea. Unless you use heavy equipment; digging out an area for the ‘house’ and all of the dirt needed to cover it will take forever, and the process will be hugely dependent on the soil type and rock inclusion. Good luck building some dumb shit like that in a reasonable time frame with only hand tools if you’re hitting sheets of slate rock every other minute, then running the plumbing and electrical, etc. and getting future access will be a fricking pain. Not to mention, if you live in a place like Florida and have a water table like a foot below the dirt, you’ll be swimming neck deep before you ever dig out a hole deep enough for an ‘earth ship’. The only viable future of housing, is a more streamlined and efficient one; made to order houses in factories, delivered to you and installed on site or even possibly homes that are molded or 3D printed, but definitely not living in a human mole hill like a deluded homosexual.
I think this would be good for the CanadianNorth though, for single people who want to live in the wilderness and minimalize impact, all the houses facing one direction means easy privacy, but help and companionship is also close.
>hitting sheets of slate rock
Why the "slate rock"? Is it otherwise possible to hit sheets of non-rock slate? What other slates can you find while digging? Is this something ((they)) don't want us to know?
>would take long
indeed
but if you do it right, you are securing the future of your brethren for centuries
>you will live like the bugs
>you will be happy
I cannot understand people who eat crustaceans.
This is ultimate cringe, partly because of the way u said what u said but mostly because u think family guy is funny
>n-no you can't dig by hand, t-that's impossible!
mogged by an autistmal hole. sad.
There isn't a housing crisis. There's an immigration crisis
>stop immigration
>ban real estate as investment
Solves the housing crisis.
That's quite the nice marshland you've got outside your house anon!
maybe if you're a smurf or teletubbie but it looks like some medieval form of solitary confinement to me.
Yeah the housing crisis for the teletubbies
There isn't a housing crisis. There is a cost crisis.