Yup. Everyone is looking at this in absolute terms versus relative.
$5k from me could be the same percentage of my net worth as $20m is to Tilman. Which one is going to make a bigger splash?
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Feels like HISD is a lost cause at this point. Friend of mine had her kids at HISD. She moved to Katy. Says much, much better
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Thatâs crap, and there is a housing crisis right now.
There are plenty of affordable houses between 610 and the Beltway, the problem is nobody wants to live in those neighborhoods because HISD is not in that great at the moment
HISD used to be good but then everyone left for cheaper and bigger houses on the outside.
Renovate neighborhoods in the Beltway. Reverse the sprawl. Add density.
Factually incorrect about what?
Okay. This is different now. Iâll give you that. There are affordable homes between the 610 and B8
But inside the 610⊠too expensive. And given that rates will begin to come down, people that have been sitting cash these past 2 years will jump on the real estate market, propping it up
What kind of post is this?
Where is your feedback? Do you have anything to back it up?
If not , then itâs just an empty to post.
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The problem here is that UH depends on a small group for supports while the UTs of the world have thousands of big donors.
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The âgood areasâ within the 610 loop are too expensive.
You can find houses in Third Ward under $300K, but the problem is that are old and unrenovated, and we still have a school district issue
Itâs the same situation with homes in between the beltway and 610. There are cheap houses that can be renovated. Renovating houses improves the overall area.
The problem Houston faces is that people want these gigantic 2 story homes for cheap. Thatâs only possible if you build on cheap land outwards
I look forward to his response. I have articles up and ready in regards to the Tyson Familyâs NIL for Arky basketball, Phil Knight giving whatever Oregon wants him to give, and Fred Smithâs $25m donation to just NIL. I look forward to his response. The Dave Portnoy $3m is already in the thread to start.
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Youâd need to improve the overall area first imo. What good is a renovated house if the area is a sh** hole?
An area cannot improve if the tax base doesnât improve.
You canât just start developing in bad areas because the money has to come from somewhere, and what do Texans love? â Low taxes.
It has to start with the people.
Yes, perhaps. I have said here, we need to gentrify 3rd ward. I am on board with that. Thing is, is the 3rd wars big enough to sustain people from Cypress, Katy, Conroe, Sugarland, etc, that would want to move to that area specifically? Probably not. And even then, those $300k home prices would skyrocket
I think our fan base can eventually grow to take some of the pressure off. But we are nowhere near that being the case right now. We need Tilman.
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Itâs not enough to sustain all those people. I agree. Thatâs not anyoneâs fault but the city planners who never chose to remove zoning restrictions.
Houstonâs issues were created by itâs own growth strategy.
Yes, Houstonâs population is âGrowingâ, but itâs âGrowingâ OUTWARDS.
The problem with growing outwards, is that all these cheap homes are being built further and further away from the city.
What keeps these houses on the exurbs valuable is the low supply of them. If you start adding more housing, then the value of those homes decline which is what those neighborhoods do not want.
Thatâs why all these new âsuburbsâ are being built around Houston, because once a city like Katy or Sugarland starts getting too dense, the housing and schools decline.
I went to Lamar and SFA for summer school and Iâm not giving them any $$.
Remember when Pezman complained that UH fans would sell their UT tickets. He hung out with Fertitta. Thatâs what the big donors see. Fertitta built UH hoops which was cheaper to build.
Kelvin Sampson built UH basketball.
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And great schools, like Katy, The Woodlands, Sugarland, etc.
True dat. And whose name is on the arena that kept him here?
Now seems like a good time to drop the link for everyone that is able to help with NIL.
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