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Who would move to the scorched desert to live in a shitty apartment with thin walls? The whole point of moving to the middle of nowhere is to get a real house. I've watched enough home inspection videos to know the construction quality in Arizona is exceptionally poor, that's bad enough in a house but even worse in an apartment building, which might fall down on you and will have noise problems too. I live in a condo but its in CA, and it's built so well I hardly hear my neighbors, got a concrete slab separating floor 1 and 2. Get better building codes and enforcement, and build in urban areas where the jobs are. Oh just noticed that's actually what you're saying here 😸 okay then.

You make some good and valid points, but you completely ignore the fact that studies suggest that the global population could start to decline by as soon as 2050 due to decreasing birth rates in many parts of the world. Factors contributing to the potential population decline include increased access to education and healthcare, particularly for women, urbanization, economic development, and changing cultural attitudes towards family size. Countries in Europe and East Asia are already experiencing population decline or very slow growth due to these factors. And do not forget that AI and robots, as well as, many other emerging technologies are seriously going to help us manage resources in the future. Trash will be sorted super efficiently by robots, smart systems will reduce waste and energy use in buildings, drones will monitor air quality to keep it clean and AI will start making electric cars cheaply so that everyone can afford to drive them. Precision farming will use fewer chemicals and AI will boost solar power by figuring out the best panel angles and make wind turbines super efficient by predicting wind patterns. The cost of energy storage is dropping rapidly (watch Tony Seba's videos). Modular nuclear reactors (SMRs and MSRs) are gonna be a game-changer for clean energy with some countries already deploying them. These smaller, safer reactors can be built faster and cheaper than big traditional ones, and they produce a ton of energy without all the nasty emissions and risks of meltdowns (just learn about them so you are not ignorant of their benefits and their safety profile which is better, by a long shot, than any other form of energy ever produced). The point is that while it is good to be a skeptic and certainly, there is plenty to be skeptical about, there is also much to be optimistic about and Phoenix is not going to have any problems with its growth or water usage or anything else, other than it may just get too hot to live in Phoenix due to the heat island effect. And those of you who hate Phoenix and think it should not exist, you are demented and sad and please, leave as soon as possible. You are not wanted. Go live in NYC. Phoenix is well managed city, despite the mischaracterizations of the metro area by those who are jealous of it and completely lack the ability to think logically!

where are the high rise condos in metro Phoenix? only downtown Phoenix? planning to move there from our Miami Beach high rise in ~2028 in order to be near alcor...

Water channel from Mexico is being built right now, wake up.

does missing middle house bill 2721 have teeth to help the city move in this direction?

The Arizon location is SURPRISE, not SUPRISE.

Then you turn it into Sacramento with the light rail and apartment sprawl everywhere in Sacramento sometimes says trouble with its energy uses regarding its air conditioning and rush hour business operations just ask the SMUD utility district or Sacramento municipal utility district

I’ll never understand why people want to create more population density in suburb areas and then complain about water shortages. How can you compare single family home prices to cost of living in San Francisco and New York? The lock downs and cheap taxes brought hoards of people and business here over the last 4 years and that drove up the cost of real estate. If you despise suburbs stay in your big cities. Where you can live on top of each other and virtue signal about that lifestyle. Some people want yards for their kids and pets and to grow their own gardens. Not everybody wants to live some nihilistic life of apartment dwelling. I don’t golf but out nice climate allows that business to operate all year long and the golf courses are watered with reclaimed water the same non potable water used in all the man made ponds in developed areas that provide resources for a lot of birds and wildlife. Also I’d like to see a comparison of the amount of water used for a suburb area of today here versus what the agriculture and farms used 40 years ago in the same area. The agriculture here flood irrigates and uses a lot of water. We don’t need more population density here that will make our roads and highways more like Californias hellacious traffic. Bringing more people here will only further drive up the cost of real estate. Arizona used to be cheap and safe for families it’s now turning into California so the boom will soon bust and real estate prices will correct at some point.

I know that recently last yr new massive aqueducts were discovered and can last well over 300 years. Also the massive unanounce large city in tonopah is not being announce. It has its river access and all full of agriculture . If you need land while is cheap let me know. It has a brand new Costco and growing. It has lots for over 15 more buildings

Why isn't Nimby considered cruel and unusual? If i were in charge, the punishment for this kind of hate crime would be civil assets forfeiture as restitution and/or prison. Weaponizing the government against the most vulnerable for your own comfort and profitability? Maybe you don't deserve to live in a society rooted in human decency and progress and kindness.... How quickly Nimbys forget the unmatched value of good people around you. They assume anyone with lower income is automatically somehow not worthy to so near to them up on their highest of horses. Plus, ask a karen! They LOVE complaining about strangers living their lives as they please. Who doesn't love a good new hobby?

I don't know if Houston or Phoenix is more expensive.... I'm slow...

They don’t have intersections where I live like that as I am in the mountains and multi lane roads are nearly impossible. There are some in slow traffic areas. I would rather my child have a trench to crawl through than to try to cross an intersection like that. I grew up on a 2 lane road and we had to move our mailbox when I was almost hit when getting the mail as a child. I got a magazine and was excited to run back to the house to read it. I never saw the car, but my mom said it moved into the wrong lane to miss me. As an outsider who is not used to seeing this sort of thing, this is a serious problem. I bet more kids get killed here than gets shot.

California east

My Family is why I am here but IT's tough staying inside under Premium Central AC June till Sept/October those summer/aka your winter months aren't 🎉😎

Goodyear & Buckeye on the RISE Also don't sleep on Estrella. Westgate is the only the beginning of the west surburb [takeover]. And California is right there. 1 hour drive 😂

So you’re advocating ghettoization and “smart cities” just so people can “walk” around? Personal property rights belong to each individual owner, not the state.

Its because of all the useless carwashes.

The entire video is pure bullshit, elimination of farmland saves water, we have no water issues.

I couldn't disagree with this more. People live in single family home neighborhoods to get away from the city, not to turn into the city. Of course they are going to complain. People thought bringing section 8 (excuse me, "affordable housing") to single-family home neighborhoods was a great idea, too. But, hey, let's run our communities according to naive 20 year olds. What could possibly go wrong?

I completely disagree with you about allowing single family home zones to become multi family units. I bought a house before in an area where after recession, corporations bought most of the houses up and turned them into rental units (thus becoming multi family units). It was a disaster! Crime soared, infrastructure was strained, etc. The ones always advocating for those kind of schemes are folks with no skin in the game.

Just came back from Spain recently - Phoenix officials need to travel there and look at their urban planning and infrastructure that deals with hot sunny climate.

People figure out that living in a desert with the climate heating up and water drying up is a bad idea? Certainly not.

Phoenix sucks

Its because neighborhoods dont want multi family buildings because they are mostly lower rent, and they dont want the crime and property value loss that comes with them.

Bet on Phoenix. FROM THE ASHES

The bigger question is why on earth would anybody in their right mind want to live in Pheonix? 110 for weeks on end is not "Good Weather." There's no industry like how LA has Hollywood. It's a city who's only purpose is to preview what the end of the world looks like

Phoenix may become unlivable by 2050 just from the heat, even if there is still water.

The answer isn't to build more houses, it's to make the houses that already exist AFFORDABLE. But we are dealing with brainless leftists who think the solution is to keep the borders wide open, wonder why we are running out of housing and destroying more land to fix problems they cause. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

no we are losing water from the CAP

No, you don't understand anything. The best planned city is Moscow

But what he failed to mention is just how different the Blocks are to what they were supposed to be.

Nice weather is so incredibly subjective. I live in Minneapolis and I actually greatly prefer upper midwest weather to anywhere else in the US other than maybe the northern reaches of the PNW. Heat is my kryptonite.

I think it is a good thing for cities to encourage higher density housing and have mixed zoning and good transit. Be careful how high that horse is though. It'll be like when Le Corbusier thought that spread out zoning would be a good idea. Intentions were good. As someone who lives in an apartment, I don't imagine anyone wanting to hear their downstairs neighbor's dog bark all night. And I've seen old neighborhoods that were once grand mansions of the 1920's become dangerous slums as land owners haphazardly chopped those homes into ugly barely livable multi dwelling units, and keep them held together with calk, plywood and thick coats of paint. So, there should be rules in place when you allow people to build MDU's. For starters, sound proofing between units would be nice. And some kind of minimum of quality/standards when people chop up houses to make them into an MDU's. And it's a new 5 story building, the lower floors could be commercial use to give residents access to shops and restaurants within walking distance.

Yert they allowed the Saudis to pump all the ground water they wanted for their hay fields

I have lived in Phoenix 87 years so I've seen it all, used to be such a good place to live. No A/C will cure the population problem

As someone who lives in PHX, in a "triplex" in a SFH area it's pretty good, and I hope more people see the benefits of it

Why do they want Phoenix and the surrounding cities to grow so much?

It's hard for us to build when china buys out our lands.

We need more oil fields

Solid content, my man. Subscribed.

got some news for you'll i live in the Verde Valley just north of Phoenix up in God's country. The Verde river been running real low for the past decade. When we dam the river your going to have to find water somewhere else. Good Luck!

I do wonder how urbanism can be promoted while still supporting the middle class? Turning over home ownership and rentals to large developers seems do nothing but further polarize wealth in the US.

If you don't live here, don't give us a fuc&ing "advice " or dictate policy. I've lived in Phoenix for 40 years...don't know a single person who's been "pushed out"

Ignorant response on groundwater! It takes thousands of years to replace groundwater especially in AZ where most all came during and shortly after the last glacial period e.g. when death valley ca was a giant lake and nevada was dotted with numerous lakes and wetlands. The southwest e.g. AZ was a very different, much cooler and significantly wetter place then. Those two factors enabled the stores of groundwater currently in use in AZ. Maybe do more than internet research prior to telling others 'how things work!'

An ASU professor years ago studied Maricopa County's sprawling growth. He stated that if the growth didn't stop, the resources needed to sustain it would collapse-and here we are. Remember that they don't want people to build up because of the view of those beautiful mountains, so they build out.

you'd think desert people would be smater with there water since they hardly get any but what do you know......maybe covid should have retired the retirees by now

Phoenix is LA's little brother..

All the grass

2050e nothing alive

I wanna drive tho 😔...