04-03-2024, 01:47 AM
Acer wrote:
[quote=kj]
Screw NIMBY. Ok, well it's kind of a thing, but in this case it's not good guys against bad guys. We live in a neighborhood we like, and have rich developers who want to build basically Walmart style housing in the middle of it. Why are we "bad guys" because we don't want that? They don't have adequate parking planned, access is a joke, which means we'll be choked out of getting to and from our house. And it will never result in affordable housing. Just more unaffordable housing and a ruined neighborhood. There are massive problems with affordable housing, but it all stems from people with loads more money than I have. I'm not giving up the small amount of comfort I have for them. Btw, the most vocal supporters of this re-zoning are liberal people in the liberal "north end" where they will not let anyone build anything. They use historical building protections etc. to block anything. That's NIMBY.
People of modest means have built nice communities. Rich people want to take advantage of those communities, which eventually drives everyone who built those communities out. Don't naively buy into exploitation. This is not the way.
Giant developments are not the solution suggested in the OP.
That's what developers want though. We can already do ADUs. The developers are pushing this to make money, and that's all. Either one has to think they care about poor people, or that what they do will have the unintended effect of lowering rents and housing prices, and I don't think either. They truly want to build "willy-nilly", and I don't want that. Not in my backyard, or your back yard.
I know these people, and they just find all us regular people a nuisance.