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  • Across the United States, zoning codes require new developments to provide a minimum number of parking spaces, which carry substantial construction costs.

    In this report, we use 2025 construction cost estimates from Rider Levett Bucknall to calculate the cost per space in 17 U.S. cities and combine these data with local minimum parking requirements to estimate how parking mandates increase total construction costs across building types.

    We find that parking construction costs have risen substantially faster than inflation since 2012 and that required parking can account for a large share of total project costs—adding tens of thousands of dollars per housing unit and, in some cases, increasing total construction costs by more than 50%.

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  • NomNom@feddit.ukBannedOPtoOff My Chest@lemmy.worldI don't like mob justice
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    What happens when someone does something morally wrong but legal?

    If a law is bad, you change the law. That’s how it works in any democracy.

    If americans want a better healthcare system, all they have to do is change the law.

    The issue is that :

    1. Americans vote for corrupt people. Rick Scott was convicted of defrauding Medicaid and Medicare. He was still elected by the people of Florida

    2. Americans insist on giving some empty states 2 senators.

    3. Americans insist that the Senate needs a super-majority to vote any bill

    These flaws are why americans can’t have healthcare.

    Ultimately, it’s up to americans to fix their political system to make it more representative if they want healthcare. Killing random CEOs isn’t going to work.


  • NomNom@feddit.ukBannedOPtoOff My Chest@lemmy.worldI don't like mob justice
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    Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was accused of being anti-communism.

    That was a lie. He was actually communist. It didn’t matter. He was savagely beaten up by an angry crowd. They broke his teeth. Then, he was thrown in prison without any trial.

    I don’t like mob rule. I like having a court system.