@Sunshine The problem with rent control is that it rewards incumbent renters at the expense of new renters. This is not a point that can be seriously debated. However, the housing market, especially over many decades, is influenced by more than one factor, and it's difficult to separate out the effects. I am extremely skeptical of rent controls; however, there is certainly a case to be made for some regulation of the rental market, in the same way that we regularly regulate public utilities.
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@SteveKLord ' Tests, carried out as part of its work, have shown that water can be absorbed at a rate of 10,000 litres per square metre, per hour. '
1 square meter of surface area at 1 cm is 10 litres, so a square metre would have to pass 10 metres (1000 cm) deep of water per hour, or a velocity of 2.78 centimetres per second, unless I did the math wrong.
That seems like a very high number for a ceramic to filter, even considering the gaps.
@PuddleOfKittens It is very much a mistake to suggest that "traditional" cities grew "organically" or "naturally", or even that they represent "human scale". Human settlement has always been subject to land use restrictions. The European and Japanese cities featured in this article as exemplars evolved they way they did under severe feudal land restrictions, not because there was any kind of conscious choice to build that way. Article is 11 yrs old, "New Urbanism" is no longer fashionable.
@LibertyLizard I did watch it. Like most videos of its type, it throws up a bunch of relevant-seeming statistics uncritically. You cannot make a bare comparison of rents between cities with wildly differing income structures and land values.
Did the author not wonder why Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are so low on the list, despite being highly desireable places to live?
@LibertyLizard I just feel like this video is going to misinterpret so many things about reality.
I'm curious as to why you think this video is "well-researched". Because it throws a lot of statistics of dubious relelvance on the screen?
@Imperor @dndhomebrew @dnd@lemmy.world @DnD@kbin.social @askgamemasters @worldbuilding @ttrpgs I can only really say that for my part, in my setting of Enrathe, humans, "orcs", "elves", and "dwarves" are actually all the same species who diversified long ago into different cultures, and "halflings" don't exist.
@GarlicBender Unfortunately. Such people give the very idea of Liberty a bad name. They have now become what libertarianism is in the public's eye.
@ajsadauskas @technology These guys are not "libertarians", at all. They are, in fact, the antithesis of libertarian. They are authoritarians who believe in liberty only for themselves.
@Sunshine In my jurisdiction, there are effectively no real protections for tenants. Landlords can unilaterally raise rents by any amount without limit, with every lease renewal. My landlord has raised my rent every year for the past 3 years, now, and the housing market is so tight that there are no realistic alternatives for non-wealthy people. In a society where most people are living paycheck-to-paycheck, a 90 day notice is all it takes to evict for no cause.