Welcome to the winter of our discontent: Reality Bites house to be torn down

[januarysix]

'Reality Bites' movie home in Houston set for demolition https://t.co/b0gaxpPfqj
- Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) April 4, 2024

A Houston home featured in the 1994 movie Reality Bites will be demolished in the next 30 days, according to the property manager.

The home served as the apartment of Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn, and

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[xpirate_queenx]

And replaced with either another 4-story ugly ultramodern townhouse or an ugly ultramodern mcmansion that takes up literally every single square inch of space within the property line. It's happening all over the goddamn place in this town.

[squirrels_oh_no]

All over the place in Raleigh, too. And they're selling for 3x each what the developers paid for the property in a "developing" (aka gentrifying) area.

[tanglespiders]

in the suburbs here, too!

it wouldn’t be as bad if it were duplex or quadplex since areas near metro stops are most likely to get replacements like this as that’s where the older housing stock is, and people who spend $2-5 million on a sfh aren’t riding the metro, but no. transitional craftsman modern farmhouses that price the affluent first-time home buyers out of the $$$ areas and the cascade of people getting pushed further out follows, so no one who would ride the metro to work can. fun and sustainable!

[pseudonygma]

" people who spend $2-5 million on a sfh aren’t riding the metro,"

That's what's most infuriating about these real estate development builds! It makes me wonder where the lower income tenants have all moved to because all the places with the best public transportations are being priced for people who will never use them. It's so beyond messed up.

And it's not like the building quality is there to justify the prices either. All these "industrial-styled high end condo-apartments" with unfinished concrete ceilings are awful because concrete doesn't absorb sound. They'll also take a while to settle with the weather, which means they will definitely crack within the first few years of being built because of how extreme our winters here; it's not unusual to have a difference of 60C between summer and winter. How luxurious it is to find concrete dust from the your ceiling all over your apartment?

[nutmegdealer]

tired of all this matchstick(?) nonsense. cities are losing their characters.

[you_hermit_crab]

lol I basically just commented the same thing.

[iamsam4eva]

I’m having to move back to the Houston area this year and I was shocked by how many of those ultramodern soulless townhouses have popped up. So many of the bungalows are gone… are there no creative architects?!