Posted Apr 16, 2024, 4:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Huh?
There is PLENTY of room to build in Chicago.
The last estimate I read was 30,000 vacant lots in the city.
Chicago is still a rustbelt city in a way that NYC just fundamentally isn't anymore. It may not be quite as rusty as Detroit or Cleveland, but it's still a far cry from NYC.
And Chicago never stopped building new housing, it has just built far less than New York because there is less demand for it here.
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Chicago ran out of greenfield lots for development. That happened to every prewar city.
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