Day: February 15, 2022

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Shultes Road

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I saw the Seasonal Limited Use Highway Sign, and just assumed it would be plowed all the way back to Cook Hollow Road. I would soon find out that I would be wrong.

Sunday February 13, 2011 — Partridge Run Game Management Area

Why “gentrification buildings” are misunderstood – Vox

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Why “gentrification buildings” are misunderstood – Vox

When many people look at new housing construction, they don’t just see boxy, modern, and bland architecture. They see new buildings that symbolize displacement and gentrification, or the idea that the construction comes at the cost of pushing out existing residents and replacing them with richer, whiter residents. But as Vox policy reporter Jerusalem Demsas explains, new construction in the US can actually help fight displacement.

There’s a growing body of research on what actually happens when we add units of housing to neighborhoods: Market-rate units decrease displacement and rents in neighborhoods, while adding strictly affordable units decreases gentrification. And while people may not love the aesthetics of the new architecture, these buildings all look so similar for a reason: It’s the cheapest way to build, at a time when the US needs more housing quickly

I got my free Bidencare COVID-19 Test Kit 👃🏻 

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I got my free Bidencare COVID-19 Test Kit 👃🏻 

Hopefully I’ll never have to use it but it will be setting in my bathroom. I thought it was a bit over packaged coming in the mail, being in an padded USPS mail sleeve but it apparently is a set of two commercial grade Abbot Binax COVID-19 Test Kits, like they sell at the pharmacy for $26 a piece.

I was somehow expecting the kits to be a shrunk down version of the test kits sold at the pharmacy – not exact replicas. You know something like US Gubermant Brand Generic Kit in an ugly brown paper envelope, no resale value printed on them. I can see the next scandal – people reselling their free test kits at neighborhood stores – $52 or more profit per household.

Also no letter included from the benevolent politicians, thanking you for buying a test kit with your hard earned taxpayer dollars and reminding you to get out and vote for the nice people that saved your $52 by sending you a test kit the next day your family gets the sniffles.