![]() ![]() I thought it just unlocked for me, somehow. But even then, I didn't realise those things were houses. One day I just happened to destroy them all while playing it, and then it unlocked. In fact, before I completed the achievement and it was still a grey box on the checklist, I had no idea where I could find houses in the City. If not for the checklist, no one would know those are houses. This is the only time in the game or anywhere where it identifies what the blobs in the first screenshot are. There's a lot going on in the achievement around the dilapidated houses. You'll know what the criteria is for completing each achievement if you clear an achievement adjacent to it. Some are just necessary for completion (the green boxes). But all three modes have a 120-item checklist (colloquially later known as the Sakurai checklist). Kirby Air Ride has three modes, but the only mode you'll hear anyone discuss is City Trial. It's a literal achievement to “Destroy all of the dilapidated houses!”Īnd, yes, I haven't 100%-ed Kirby Air Ride. Thus, they've tasked Kirby with their destruction. Then they're just a blight on the City, as the NIMBY-ers said would happen. ![]() This obviously raises the cost of development far past the actual construction, so it doesn't get built.Īs for the City, King Dedede apparently waived the concerns of the two paragraphs above and ignored the NIMBY people.But I guess the houses are so awful and then not maintained that no one is living in them. Regulations may include superfluous environmental impact studies, zoning laws, impossible building codes (grandfathering in existing places), arbitrary permitting processes, and more. That results in either homelessness or poor people trying to live elsewhere that's more accommodating to building houses. Governments put together all kinds of rules and regulations to mess up the housing market and create an artificial scarcity in housing, thus increasing the value of the existing homes and contributing to a supply-demand in-balance. ![]() Sort of the same reason that building gambling establishments like casinos and horse-tracks in municipalities get objected to. (Hence why a wealth tax to be paid on a cash basis is stupid.) They're also concerned that affordable housing will bring in a lot of riff-raff into the area. The people already living in the city or owning property there are commonly worried that development of these buildings will lower the value of the existing property, and real-estate is a large part of people's wealth. The common objection existing residents have to building low-income/affordable housing units is that, while the folks in the municipality mean well, they just don't want them in their backyard (“not in my backyard”, or NIMBY). These houses were constructed, a few dozen of them, right outside of the main part of the City. What are these made of and how would anyone live in them? One wonders how these were so haphazardly constructed, with all of the different materials seemingly stitched together. There's no doors, though apparently the circles are windows. Kirby observing these crappy houses (and standing on one) about two Kirby in height. T ime to tackle an issue that's vexed me for over a decade now: On what basis are those crap-mounds in Kirby Air Ride's City Trial mode supposed to be houses? Yes, they're referred to as “dilapidated houses” (meaning the houses have all fallen into disrepair), but how were these supposed to be houses to begin with? By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Regretting your policies around affordable housing, eh King Dedede? ![]()
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