Author: /u/pawsforbear

I gotta rant. I agree that Houston needs more affordable housing and not everyone wants to live 100 miles outside the city to find an affordable home.

But I’m sick of larger lots being bought up by builders and filled to the brim with houses. Large quarter acre lots that had ONE dwelling and ONE garage now hold 6-8 townhomes.

That’s 6-8 homes with families where the average family has 2 cars spilling out on the streets that werent designed to be parking lots. Driving through small roads with less traffic management mechanisms (4 way stops or lights needed when they werent, etc)

That’s 6-8 homes covering up a quarter acre with cement and shingles, dumping water onto the roads.

That’s 6-8 homes tapping into the same 40-60 year old sewage system.

Now I don’t know build code and I could be misinformed, I just don’t think many neighborhoods were designed for this new model of housing and it’s ruined my neighhood specifically but I know it’s ruining others.

However, I feel like the city is perfectly happy to get 6-8x the income through property taxes but not happy enough to upgrade the Infrastructure.

Further it kinda pisses me off instead of sacrificing a home or two to allow guest parking builders just have residences use these narrow streets.

It’s getting fucking old and yea I guess just let me have my ‘old guy yells at cloud’ moment I guess.