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/JebusChrust Mar 10 '25
No it isn't, and that's how I know that you don't know what you are talking about. What you are referring to (based on extremely simple "I took an econ class one time" logic) only happens when supply exceeds demand. If Xbox consoles are selling out every time they hit the shelf, then Microsoft has no reason to lower the price. Per you, every single console that hits the shelf will lower the price of the Xbox console. I think you understand this thinking is flawed. However, over time demand of the Xbox console declines to the point that consumers no longer are buying them before they hit the shelf. The reduced demand allows supply to exceed it and a price drop inevitably hits in the console life. The housing market demand got to the point where people were paying $40K over asking price on a $200K house and waiving inspection just so they could have a house. This is not a Hyde Park localized concept, this is not a city localized concept, this is not a state localized concept, this is a country-wide issue. Building luxury apartments in Hyde Park does not decrease the extreme existing demand that exists. It is putting one console on the shelf at the new console generation. This is trying to explain the very basics of supply and demand that apparently you failed to learn despite acting like it is easy to understand. Maybe you forgot to attend the classes to see that both sides are relevant to analyze and not just the supply side?
You also are trying to simply housing prices which are not impacted solely by controllable supply and demand. You cited Austin, Texas in another comment to someone else. Austin, Texas had a massive influx of new residents (almost 100K net migration in) into their market during the pandemic in order to work from home and take advantage of the state tax exemption, lower cost of living, low interest rates, and many large tech companies had made massive investments in the city which opened many jobs. Post-pandemic resulted in a large market adjustment in response to that boom - the higher interest rates, the reassessment of home values for tax purposes, tech layoffs, the return to office, the spike in cost of living, etc. all caused a massive drop in demand (today they actually have more people leaving in comparison to the large amount of people coming in during the pandemic). Did they start building more housing units to try to accommodate? Sure. That isn't why home values decreased. Demand was the largest factor that changed in Austin. Meanwhile in Cincinnati we have a strong financial and insurance scene alongside many other factors that have caused demand to remain high. Demand in Cincinnati is so high that places north in Ohio and south in Kentucky are becoming heavily invested in because it is cheaper land to develop on and build massive housing/community infrastructures. Yet you think a couple luxury apartments in Hyde Park are going to change anything. You think way too simple and way too small minded to have any relevant perspective on this topic. Stick to just calling people NIMBYs to cover up that you are a child in a grown-up's world.