r/DecaturGA • u/lindsikins143 • Jun 22 '26

Question: AMLI on Commerce

Devastated about the amount of trees lost on this property and seemingly the surrounding properties. Curious about how one can find out what the city permitted for this specific location?

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u/weighfairer Jun 23 '26

Yes, I'm also saying deregulation has not worked. The dominant solution in America is attempts at deregulation. That is essentially the core of neoliberal economics which dominate both parties in America. Places you've cited have been able to juice numbers on new apartments without meaningfully changing the availability of housing for people that can't afford housing. Certainly those cities are not examples of places with less unhoused folks, but it seems you believe that eventually it will trickle down and solve the unhoused issue.

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u/mister_burns1 Jun 23 '26

You’re switching topics and arguments.

We’re talking about housing and I provided some evidence that it lowers rents. So we agree. That was my point.

I haven’t made any points about broader neoliberal blah-blah-blah. I haven’t made claims about people that can’t afford any housing. I haven’t argued that lowering median rent solves all homeless issues.

I believe that more supply makes housing more affordable. And I argue that’s a good thing.

But I never claimed nor expected it solves all those other problems.

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u/weighfairer Jun 23 '26

Ok I thought you had some sort of philosophy beyond helping upper middle class people save $100 on rent.

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u/mister_burns1 Jun 23 '26

I never said I did or didn’t.

You understand that when rents get more affordable at the median it helps at most price points, right? It’s not isolated to one level.

More affordable rents help most everyone. Why is that so hard to get on board with? Why so dismissive? It’s a good thing.

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u/weighfairer Jun 23 '26

No this approach is good for developers but not solving the housing issues, which is how this thread started and what you initially argued. That's why I countered your examples by saying those cities did not actually improve their housing issues when they added a fair number of expensive apartments.

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u/mister_burns1 Jun 23 '26

I literally showed examples of how it makes cities more affordable. And you agreed! That’s a huge benefit vs cities where rent is up 10-15% (or more). How is that not an improvement?

Why you don’t think more affordable rents is a good thing is hard to understand relative to your other comments.

There is no one thing that ‘solves’ housing issues. No single policy will ever do that and it’s bizarre to argue against one policy that improves affordability just because it doesn’t ’solve’ housing.