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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHATS A FUGGIN POPUP[/quote]

Imagine a line of rowhouses. A developer buys one, and guts it. The developer adds a floor or two (the popup), then extends the building in the back, into what had been the backyard (the popback). Sometimes they add a second building in the back of the backyard. Basically the developer tries to cram as many condo units as humanly possible onto a lot that had been designed for a single home. They sometimes put six condos where a house had been. The whole thing makes a mockery of zoning laws. They are almost always extremely ugly -- the developer makes no effort to match the architecture of the neighborhood. And they are comically large, towering over their neighbors. Also, all of this is pretty much only allowed in historically black neighborhoods. You will never ever see anything like this in wealthy white neighborhoods which have banned such developments.

Advocates try to portray this as increasing the affordability of housing, but that's just spin. These are luxury condos they're building. They can cost $1 million each. They're not for average people.

It's a great business for developers. They can buy a house for $500,000. Spend $500,000 or $1M on construction. And have six condos they can sell for a total of almost $6 million. Pretty good profit. [/quote]

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