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"Communism bad because [thing that happens in capitalism]*", vol. 69
Meanwhile, in God's Own Chosen Land, all apartment complexes are one of two shitty design options and we get fleeced for the "privilege" of living there. Fuck it all, dammit
Don't forget that they're marketed as "Luxury Apartments" because the appliances were made in the last 10 years.
Here I thought it was cause you have the luxury of paying rent on them
It’s the luxury of breathing in mold spores from inside the walls and under the landlord special coat of paint
"These are boutique spores, you won't find these anywhere else in this city. For the privilege of being able to breathe them in you owe me an extra $200 per month."
Plus a fee for the luxury of paying him online, the only payment option
"Don't forget to tip your landlord"
I ordered a replacement part for an electronic device I have that was on the fritz... Online... And there was a tip field at the end. As of there will even be a human involved in any of the order processing up until a person moves out from the van to my doorstep
the first fallacy is that this was "left-wing" architecture.
It was just boring architecture from Russia, built rapidly during a time of extreme homelessness. And it addressed that problem more than fatcat hate.
Everything they don’t like is left wing. Their brain doesn’t function beyond that.
Brutalism may not be the most aesthetically pleasing architecture style but, damn, did it house a lot of people who would've died.
I will stand ten toes down to defend that brutalism, as the philosophy of being honest with your material usage, is the most Beautiful form of architecture.
Most people will agree that mid century architecture is one of America's most beautiful designs. The school of thought behind all famous mid century architecture is always that of honest material usage.
Now what does honest materials mean? It means when you're using wood, you emphasize the grain. If you're using metals, you embrace it's utility. Stainless steel conveys surgical levels of cleanliness. When using brass or copper, the patina is expected. Stonework, isn't used as a façade. The inclusion of masonry is obviously structural, and it's implementation is deliberate and planned out like a painting.
All the recent major condo/apartment builds near me in Florida has been quite dishonest while appearing brutalist. They build huge wood frame buildings the plaster it like its solid block. Everyone I know talks about how they expect devastation in a hurricane for those structures. Also, firewalls are apparently a thing of the past. And none of these cost cutting homes are for working people. They are for 55+ communities or high price condos.
Yes, this infuriates me to no end. The whole "modern" aesthetic is dishonesty. And they have the gall to call their glorified tinder boxes luxury too. The word completely lost it's meaning.
I mean sure but philosophical honesty in architecture ≠ aesthetically pleasing
It's also always a picture from mid-winter times. Never one from summer or springs
I would rather have a few boring tall buildings and lots of nature than lots of single family homes and way less nature.
People of that opinion should really read Brian Goldstone's "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America." Compared to other G7 countries, US is, indeed, a shithole country.
🇺🇸But it's the greatest shithole nation! 🇺🇸
Of all the shithole countries it's certainly exceptional in its shittyness
Gonna check it out thanks for the suggestion!
Alterlaa in Vienna from the 70s
Spoiler
Here a more recent project: Reininghaus in Graz, Austria
It's not completed yet, but it's coming along nicely:
Go to the poor neighborhood in any city in America and its just as sad. Go to a poor rural area and it's worse.
Those things were created as alternative to substandard housing. My problem is, we dont see them as wellfare housing but the "new normal". Industry relies too hard on ppl living in those and paying too low wages.
Also, i dont care about visuals here but growing up in one of those, there's too little free space for human worthy life. Playgrounds covered in trash, srynges, dogpoop. Anything with grass covered in dogpoop. Sketchy people trying to snatch children being a daily occurance.
Its just too many people in one place. Not a left/right problem though.
Also, i dont care about visuals here but growing up in one of those, there’s too little free space for human worthy life. Playgrounds covered in trash, srynges, dogpoop. Anything with grass covered in dogpoop. Sketchy people trying to snatch children being a daily occurance.
This sounds like a maintenance/cops issue. Especially when people are crammed in and there's so little green space, ya can't cut corners on things like cops and firemen and ambulances.
Especially when people are crammed in and there’s so little green space, ya can’t cut corners on things like cops and firemen and ambulances.
And add social workers and spaces to consume drugs to take care of the srynges, and Karens to take care of the bad dog owners. The wrong people profit from a war on drugs.
Making sure that the area isn't just a single social group helps, and there are a lot of architectural and design features that can also help - just because it is low income housing doesn't mean it has to be "bottom of the barrel"-housing. In my area (Sandleitenhof in Vienna, added a few pictures in a reply) there is a near permanent presence - not by cops, but by city workers doing housekeeping, maintenance and they have deescalation teams who act as mediators for neighborly disputes.
I'm pretty sure a lot of the people mocking socialist architecture became really quiet when a data center was dropped next to their suburb.
I would kill to live in a brezhnevka.
I would rather have a shitty roof over my head than no roof.
@plyth@feddit.org would argue that, luxury appartments lead to affordable appartements - eventually.
True, as long as the market is competitive and people can't make money by holding appartments. So it may be necessary to use vacant home taxes like Amsterdam.
Anything that creates supply is good. Luxery appartments make people move out of other appartments. Supply increases, rents go down.
But of course, to quickly build enough appartments for everybody and bring rent down to 25% of costs of living, or even 5%, is even better. https://feddit.org/post/34635067/14682965
I know several very conservative people that believe all government buildings, or ones that receive any government funding, should be featureless concrete rectangles with no other whatsoever.
So i didn't know what this dude's talking about .
"People in America really will spend $5,000 on a sweater. No piece of clothing should cost $5,000. You know what should cost $5,000? A car. And you know who should build that car? The same people that currently build $500,000 cars. The best and most talented among us should do the work that benefits the most amount of people for what good is everything to everyone who can't afford it"
Kanye West
classic case of a broken clock being right twice a day
Before he completely lost it he was a super good dude that use to preach a lot of really good messages
The rich folk use them for their "hook-ups". It's like motels by the hour that the lower-middle class use.
some sort of communism = left wing, propaganda. who built those boxes? why?
The answer usually is the Soviet Union. And the why is usually because it was cheaper to do it that way.
What's more interesting is the way liberal built housing in America is done where they tend to purposely make the housing a little bit shitty so that poor people can't feel like they live in good housing because it would be wrong to "get something worthwhile for nothing". Because even the liberals in the United States are a bunch of capitalist assholes.
Investment vehicle. Buy and keep it empty, in a few years, use the value increase as collateral to buy more.
Any new housing is still helpful for alleviating the crunch. If a rich people see a fancy new apartment and move in, that leaves the old places they had occupied available to be rented or bought and they have to be offered at a relative discount to what they would have been otherwise because the rich people prefer the fancy new place. (Note: if people in that area are snapping up housing at a faster rate than housing is being made available, that would still manifest as rising prices but with the prices rising at a slower rate than they would have otherwise.) That’s an opportunity for the less rich people to secure a spot where the rich people used to be, so they move out of their older and less nice places and so on to relocate. Within five years or so that propagates down the vacancy chain and opens up low income housing as well.
Also many times any kind of new apartment is called “luxury” as a marketing gimmick since it’s not really a controlled term and it makes people think of it as a more attractive place to live.
More housing needs to be built to alleviate the housing crisis. Unfortunately with housing also doubling for many as their largest investment and a retirement vehicle all rolled in one, people get absolutely furious if anything is done that would appreciably reduce the price of housing. Because homeowners make up so much of society and particularly politically influential society those interests are very politically difficult to take on.