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You predicted the future! Houston's housing development is now booming, causing rent to drop! Meanwhile, Austin prices are stuck.

Dude I know this is random, but is 0:26 filmed at 900 West?? If so, glad to see the trend of urbanists living here continue xD

That block of Westheimer at 1:05 is actually a block of Elgin Street. Westheimer changes to Elgin at Bagby.

Excellent presentation, very informative!

Nice video. Try and remember the lines more though. If you do that, you’ll be the next B1M or Not Just Bikes

did you know most of the growth in our metro area is happening outside of CoH and majorly in Fort Bend and Unincorporated Harris County? The people that need to have cycling infrastructure the most, don't have anyone to advocate for them.

Today I rode from Waugh and Allen Parkway outside the Beltway in less than 40 minutes. Surface streets the whole way (pretty terrible road quality, but the traffic was respectful of me).

Downtown San Antonio in my opinion is the most vibrant in Texas and at one point had the highest walk score in the state. I don't see how it has dropped to # 7 in Texas. Thousands upon thousands of new multifamily units have been built over the past decade. Downtown San Antonio has hundreds of restaurants and the most retail of any city in Texas. It is the only city in Texas that has downtown department stores and a large scale urban mall that is always filled with both locals and tourists. There are 4 arts districts in the downtown area and over 30 historic districts in the urban core with several districts that are adjacent to the SA Riverwalk which is all in walking distance of the central downtown Riverwalk. Popular belief is that downtown S.A. is mostly tourist oriented but that is no longer the case. Southtown which is adjacent to San Antonio's CBD has several neighborhoods, Lavaca, King William, Lone Star, and SoFlo. Other downtown area districts include; River North/Museum Reach, Hemisfair Park, Pearl, Tobin Hill, Midtown, Beacon Hill, Five Points, Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, Mankhe Park, Government Hill, Monte Vista, St.Paul Square, and the Trinty University, San Antonio College and Incarnate Word University areas. UTSA a 35,000 student university is expanding in the downtown area in portions of Cattleman Square and the new Zona Cutural district. The West Campus area in Austin is definitely the most dense in Texas with an amazing urban setting but It shouldn't rank above downtown San Antonio simply because it doesn't offer the same level of amenities as far as cultural offerings, museums, parks, squares, plazas, dining, civic, historic vaudeville theatres, historic landmarks, etc, etc, etc. I just dont see a university district being more walkable than a major historic city downtown like San Antonio's. I definitely dont agree that downtown Dallas and knox Henderson are more walkable than Downtown S.A.

Good points but going into the details of a bicycle will be lost on many, especially when you start talking about mass and other technical aspects. Within the loop of any city, bicycles are very much viable. I think you should keep exploring the overall system, networks, connectivity to places that matter, and what places within the loop this idea of yours will work. Where do bicycles as a transportation mode mirror that of a car? Explore the addition of bicycle parking, routes, and safety. How can the lives of inner-loop Houstonians be improved if cars are reduced/removed from the area. How will this affect people who are not from the inner-loop. Etc.

This is an absolutely amazing video

I feel that Minimum parking requirements are really the key to limited housing availability and car centric development. Parking is more expensive to scale vertically. Tying the creation of human spaces with car storage increases the costs of multistory residential and commercial buildings. If you are a developer with limited resources, you will build less housing than otherwise to accomodate the parking mandate. If you are a developer with deep pockets, you take on the higher construction costs, and pass them on to the ultimate consumer - the renter. At either case, the effect is a reduction of affordable housing supply. Single use zoning might be bad (80% of land of many major cities are for single family detached housing), but there is still plenty of land and airspace being underutilized in the urban core. 1. Parking lots could have buildings on them. 2. Parking structures could be converted into human spaces. 3. Buildings can be made taller if they weren't limited by the amount of parking they'd have to provide. 4. Buildings without parking can have cheaper rental units or condos. 5. Parking mandates are per housing unit which discourages higher unit count. Apartment buildings without mandates can have more units by making units smaller. This is good for those who don't need much space - working professionals, students, transients, longer stay tourists, elderly, etc. 6. Some of the land devoted to streets and highways can opened up for construction. With less parking in the city and cheaper apartments, people will be more inclined to live in the city and take public transport reducing the need for wide streets for cars.

I just moved to West Campus for school at UT, and I loved learning more about the neighborhood from this video!

This is a great example of how little you understand urban planning. Zoning is not the only aspect of urban planning, and Houston's lack of it does not mean that it is a "Laissez Faire" environment. All you've done here is show differences in supply and demand in the two cities with a small side of slight differences in urban planning. Please go educate yourself on the topic before spouting more stupid BS like this again :)

This is amazing, thank you. Do you think the housing prices in Houston will go back to normal soon (like in a year or two)? I've noticed housing prices are 20-40k more than they were in early 2020

Really good video! Excellent research!

This video is amazing! I will be sharing it so more people in Austin are informed!! NIMBY’s are the reason why the city had to scrap the CodeNEXT plan...smh. 🤦‍♀️ I think that it should mainly be up to the market to decide! If the zones are updated and someone buys a single family home and decides to make a duplex or triplex- let them! It’s their property yet other property owners want to dictate what other’s do with their homes. 😵

Great Video! Amazingly informative. You should look into getting some LEED certifications. They will teach you a lot of methods to keep things sustainable and efficient

Really good video. I appreciate that you took the time to lay out the argument step by step

Good video! Some pronunciation though: Stifle power rhymes with Eiffel Tower Laissez faire rhymes with lay say fair

2:47 girl doing the I just got pounded walk back to her apartment

Are there still drag rats or did they all obtain jobs in the local guberment?

Great content man!! Looking forward to more vids.

Good video

I like this video a lot more than I thought I would. Having lived in West Campus for all 4 years of college now, it’s easy to get a little annoyed about the absolute lack of any common sense of the pedestrians and other drivers when, the constant noise no matter the hour, and the general dirtiness that often feels everywhere. I think it’s a little idealized though-while Wampus might be more energy efficient in some ways, the littering and trash output is ridiculous so calling it a green neighborhood seems a bit of a stretch. There are also dumpsters everywhere, literally on the streets (maybe not in new buildings, but everywhere else), dog shit on every patch of grass, and a lot of the apartments feel ramshackle and not really built to last. There are some benefits, however and it is indeed very walkable and it feels like a sort of community even when you don’t actually know anyone around you. Thanks for the vid

Great video! Keep making interesting ones.

I like to celebrate West Campus a lot, but the first floor retail still leaves a lot to be desired, with FreshPlus only forming the possibility of doing some item-by-item shopping as needed. West Campus leaves me vaguely obsessed with learning how to get more complete grocery stores into neighborhoods like this without requiring trips to auto-dependent parts of the city like Burnet and Hancock.

This is such a huge problem. Unfortunately, looks like it's not changing, as long as there is oil to burn. Such a wasteful way to build these crappy suburbs, it's a shame really.

I enjoy seeing Chicago used as a positive example. It's not usual that we get portrayed that way, thank you. As somebody studying economics, I have one gripe: adding density doesn't decrease rents in in-demand cities. Land values are almost perfectly correlated with population density. A higher land value means increased rents, building up will only decrease rents in cities that are in not-so-high-demand, seeing little or no population growth, Chicago is a good example here, so is the rest of the rust belt. re: 1212 Chicon It's true that if an individual plot of land has more units on it, living on that land becomes cheaper because land values are spread out among more people, but if the neighbors build more units, and the neighbors neighbors do the same, density (and thus land value) increases. 6x the land value spread out among 6x the people isn't any more affordable.

Great video