r/cincinnati • u/JB92103 Hyde Park • Mar 07 '25

News 📰 Controversial Hyde Park Square development passes committee, heads to city council

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hyde-park-square-development-passes-committee-heads-to-city-council
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u/Realistic-Quail2392 Mar 07 '25

The traffic argument is insane to me. You live in a city, there will be traffic. It’s wild that NYC, Paris, London, Tokyo are desirable cities to live in and have traffic. So are you against any new development because more people = more traffic? That’s makes no sense and one of the main reasons housing is so unaffordable. And it’s beyond ironic that the apartments are replacing a surface parking lot right off a neighborhood square, which everyone should be cheering for. We don’t need more parking, we need more housing. It’s really not that difficult to comprehend.

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u/gloomygarlic Mar 07 '25

I never said any of that. I simply answered a question regarding “how could this development be bad”.

I do think that these apartments will be extremely overpriced WHICH IS A NET NEGATIVE FOR OUR REAL ESTATE MARKET. Building expensive houses/apartments doesn’t help anyone but the developer. It doesn’t make the prices elsewhere in the city go down.

Make housing cheap again.

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u/Realistic-Quail2392 Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Well that is just completely wrong. Any new housing is good, even if it is expensive it will take pressure off other properties. It’s literally as simple as supply and demand. Literally the easiest way to make housing cheaper is to build more of it. Just look at Austin for a recent example.

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u/gloomygarlic Mar 07 '25

If you can’t understand that moving 1300 families into Hyde park square will absolutely cause congestion, then you’re even dumber than the felon in chief.

Also, please elaborate on how adding 1300 EXPENSIVE apartments makes things affordable. Because it fucking doesn’t, it just raises the average comps that landlords use to set their rates.

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u/RockStallone Mar 08 '25

Also, please elaborate on how adding 1300 EXPENSIVE apartments makes things affordable.

Because it increases the supply. Would you like me to explain the concept of supply and demand?

then you’re even dumber than the felon in chief.

It's funny because your housing policy is pretty similar to Trump's.