u/HessianHunter

I am posting this housing question in the Georgist sub because I trust y'all to understand the actual economics undergirding this. I have tried to naively google the question but found nothing. I am based in the US and what follows is within a US framework, although insights from the whole world are welcome.

A common complaint I see in discussions around upzoning is that, supposedly, if a new large multifamily home goes up, then the property tax of neighboring lots will increase. (For the sake of this discussion, let's say it's not a multi-use building that brings amenities to the neighborhood - it is literally just some apartments.) Is this an actual phenomenon? If it is real, is it a fundamental dynamic in housing or is it a particular law/code/ordinance that causes it? Finally, is it a bad thing from a Georgist perspective? From my perspective, property taxes should go up as an area becomes desirable, but a basic apartment building going up doesn't make an area more desirable. Typically the causation is the reverse - an apartment building gets built because enough people want to live there that you could rent out all the rooms you build. It's a problem for the YIMBY cause if new apartment buildings do in fact make neighboring property taxes rise without there being a corresponding rise in value/amenities for those neighboring properties.

I'm a University researcher studying muscle behavior during walking. We will have EMGs stuck to people's legs to measure muscle activity, and we want to collect their data using an Intel NUC with a power bank in a small bag.

For this project, we need to somehow have an Intel NUC drawing power from a wall socket, set up our software and connect to devices, then to unplug it so the NUC can travel with a person in a small bag to collect the data. Crucially, the power being given to the NUC can't be interrupted during this transition. I want it to behave like a laptop being unplugged that continues to run on battery power. The NUC requires 140W. The images show a U Green charger we bought figuring it could fill this role, but it turns out that the 140W out is the only way to charge the device.

I assume the only way to do this is to have a power bank such as an Anker Solix, which has a 2-barrel universal input well as a 140W output. That device is bulkier than we would like, though. Before I buy one of those, can anyone clarify that the power will be continuous when the power bank is unplugged? Also, are there any less bulky options that would fill this role?

Do new apartments cause an increase in property tax for neighbors?