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Rents won't noticeably "go down" just because one building is finished. What is happening is that rents go up less fast if housing is built. It's been shown many many times that housing follows the same supply and demand laws as anything else. Here is an article that covers the supply effect among other things: [https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/06/02/new-round-of-studies-underscore-benefits-of-building-more-housing/](https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/06/02/new-round-of-studies-underscore-benefits-of-building-more-housing/) Basically, wherever demand grows faster than supply you see prices increase. We'd need to produce an unbelievable amount of housing in Madison to outpace the growth in demand. So rents will keep going up, but by building new housing we can at least shrink the rate of growth. The only other alternative is to make Madison a less appealing place to live.

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Except as any YIMBY will tell you, study after study confirms that adding units does indeed slow rent growth rates relative to places that don't get new housing built. Here's a recent article on the subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/does-building-new-housing-cause-gentrification

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Flight free travel as a part of the new "soft life" trend from r/solarpunktravel

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Cambridge students describing the burgeoning Gen Z trend of slow travel from r/solarpunktravel

A Bicycle Sailboat Trailer

It has been such a fast-paced summer and fall this year that I've hardly had time to write in this blog of mine. One of the things that's been taking up a lot of time has been sailing with my friends on beautiful Lake Mendota here in Madison. And one thing that I've thought would be fun to document here was exactly how I get my sailboat to the water.

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