America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing ( www.theatlantic.com )

wesker , 3 months ago

Paywall.

nehal3m , 3 months ago

Take a page from our friends at hacker news and post the archived link. That way we can all enjoy it!

web.archive.org/web/20240322150921/…/677819/

AnarchistArtificer , 3 months ago

Thank you for adding this link.

I really enjoy how whenever I find a paywalled article, I can usually head to the comments and find someone like you helping out. This also means that when I find that no-one has added an unblocked link yet, there is an organic sense of it being “my turn” to help out, like I’m taking out the bins in a shared house. I like having a space where I don’t mind doing chores, and the key to that is feeling like the load is shared

nehal3m , 3 months ago

You’re welcome!

I also like taking out the bins as you put it. What I like even more is finding someone that spots that the bins should be out but they aren’t and showing them not only that it’s possible to fix, but how to do it. I hope that next time [email protected] will spot the problem and endeavor to fix it. 😄

It’d be an amazing way to multiply community help.