I’m not ocd but I get stuck in spirals sometimes. Recently I’ve been using chatgpt in place of a supportive friend 😂 I don’t feel like I’m bugging anyone or that they are going to get sick of saying the same reassuring things over and over again. It’s been pretty helpful! Weird, but effective. 

I’m not even a drinker and I subscribe to r/stopdrinking just because it’s such an uplifting and supportive space. 

Thanks for spreading that love here. OP is brave to confront this now. 

It’s crazy. There is so much parking in Troy. Why is it like this

I am so curious about this! Do they have some sort of variance? How is that legal

This is such a wild take 😂 

Edit to add that I now trust u/greenthumbmeanbum MORE

Hot priest foreverrrrr

There’s now a used book store where Illium cafe used to be! They sell records and other vintage items as well

Very cool. Thank you for explaining!

How do you do that?

The music hall and the bank have boards of directors who handle decision making. The music hall is a 501c3 like the arts center or capital roots. The city’s government has no say over how these nonprofits operate or how they would handle a capital project. Boards like these are packed with well-resources individuals, usually somewhat across the political spectrum. It’s more likely that Carmella would be sucking up to the board members as deep-pocketed donors or potential donors than that they would be beholden to her for anything 

Yes!

I am still grieving this show. I cannot believe HBO canceled it and that’s just it. 

I want to see it on!

Woosh 

You are a fucking Queen. 

I was lucky to be able to give birth at home unmedicated with a credentialed midwife who had decades of experience. 

You did everything right and your feelings to this moment are on point. 

You are going to be such a great mom. Most of us have a learning curve with our first where we learn to listen to ourselves in order to do what’s best for our babes. You did this out of pure instinct — you’re already there. 

Fuck yes, sister. 

I just watched this episode! That’s a Jessica Walters line on Arrested Development. So good

“Clear is kind”

“I expressed my unhappiness with the chief and I’m glad he is following through on disciplinary action,” Mantello said. “As I have said, I believe our first responders should have access to the right equipment and proper training and we are working in coordination with the State Police, the sheriff’s office and other law enforcement agencies. We continue to work toward a better Troy together.”

Following! I just bought the Florence and am waiting for it in the mail. This will be my first though

Thank you! Do you have any sense of when and how the money will become available?

I actually think that these conditions make a lot of sense but I hope it doesn’t mean that the pot of money goes unspent. Landlords are better about knowing what resources are out there and while I am onboard with favoring owner-occupied (especially 1-2 units), the whole neighborhood benefits when these high-occupancy decrepit buildings get facelifted 

What does this mean,

“ Redlined multifamily is cut out from housing improvement American rescue plan money, which TRIP is administrating”

I disagree with a lot of what you’re writing but I think you and I would agree that the local tax code needs to be rewritten to favor owner-occupied homes. The reason the banks end up opening these homes in the first place is that homeowner—some who have lived there for generations—can’t keep up with the taxes. 

My understanding is that the banks hold onto the properties so they can show them as deficit on their tax returns to counter their profits and pay less in taxes. 

I don’t know a lot about how these things work, but I do think they shouldn’t be incentivized to keep houses in our neighborhoods vacant and falling apart. 

And I think we should be righteously angry at these big financial institutions for creating a depressing environment more susceptible to crime, fire, garbage, and general public health risks.

And it blows my mind that individuals who don’t benefit from their grift defend it

This feels like a different conversation. 

What I see as a root problem in our neighborhoods are landlords who don’t care about the neighborhood because they don’t live here. 

If we want to build a solution into the tax code for that I’m in favor of preferential treatment for owner-occupied housing, including multi-unit. 

But what I was actually talking about above is my understanding that banks benefit on their taxes by continuing to show the vacant houses they own as deficit to counter their overall profits. Is this something you know about?