The Reagan White House moved to lower tax rates for developers in the 1980s and then years of low interest rates glutted downtowns with office buildings. Time's up.
Can’t help but think that’s our future. Cubicles can make a semi-private space when faced with sleeping in the local park as an alternative. It sounds pretty simple to me.
It’s more than that though, where do you bathe in an office?
I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s a lot of work to redo the plumbing, electrical, install kitchens, and seal those spaces into secure private zones with natural light exposure.
What I hear is mostly water pipes. Commercial buildings have them concentrated in bathrooms and hard to split for each residence.
I know there are bathroom less really cheap places but that attract type of people which property management/urban development corps dont want so they may also be reluctant for that change.
As times continue to get tougher communal baths will not seem as unsatisfactory as the alternative. We have a lot of homeless, and I don’t see it getting much better with stagnant wages and rising rent.
Can’t help but think that’s our future. Cubicles can make a semi-private space when faced with sleeping in the local park as an alternative. It sounds pretty simple to me.
It’s more than that though, where do you bathe in an office?
I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s a lot of work to redo the plumbing, electrical, install kitchens, and seal those spaces into secure private zones with natural light exposure.
I think there are far to many creature comforts expected for the path we seem to be on.
What I hear is mostly water pipes. Commercial buildings have them concentrated in bathrooms and hard to split for each residence.
I know there are bathroom less really cheap places but that attract type of people which property management/urban development corps dont want so they may also be reluctant for that change.
As times continue to get tougher communal baths will not seem as unsatisfactory as the alternative. We have a lot of homeless, and I don’t see it getting much better with stagnant wages and rising rent.
Thank you for being open to change.
It sucks seeing so many people recognize that the current system isn’t working, and then insist that the fix is to keep doing the same thing.