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Locally, they're trying to change zoning to allow for more apartment buildings.
They had a meeting about it. Guess what?
A bunch of older people showed up to basically cover their ears and yell HELL NO.
Why? I suspect they see apt buildings as being trashy or something.
Point is, gotta get past those people.
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mattkime wrote:
Locally, they're trying to change zoning to allow for more apartment buildings.
They had a meeting about it. Guess what?
A bunch of older people showed up to basically cover their ears and yell HELL NO.
Why? I suspect they see apt buildings as being trashy or something.
Point is, gotta get past those people.
I'm more concerned about "who" lives in the new apartment buildings. Otherwise, I just view it as basic gentrification and minority removal. I believe that well-to-do people, who can afford to live anywhere they want don't need any additional public help.
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They don't have to be 5-floor apartment buildings.
Just a two-story, with the owner on the first floor, and a rentable flat on the second floor. Income for the owner to address the mortgage, affordable housing for another small family. You can still find them in older cities. But who's building new ones?
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This is one of several problems with cities in the US. Another big one is mega corps pushing up home prices by buying thousands of homes to keep average people from becoming home owners.
Finland fixed about 75% of their homeless problem. It looks like a bargain compared to how much our cities/states spend waste money on it.
GM ruining public transportation is another occasionally getting fixed in small steps.
I mentioned it before, office buildings being required to have apartments for employees, and retail shops, would cut way down on traffic.
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I don't have firm ideas on how to fix it, but I thought I'd share something that is happening in my neighborhood that seems to be almost organically addressing the problem. In Portland if you own a single family home with a large enough lot (which can be as small as 5000 ft2 I think), you can put down an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) with up to 800 ft2. They are popping up a fair bit in my neighborhood and being rented out. Empty lots are being built on with two story small single family dwellings that are packed together pretty tight but still have a little space for themselves.
These dwellings are still too expensive for someone making minimum wage but I think it is easing the competition for smaller, more compact dwellings so it may be helping a little bit.
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Sorry, this guy’s ideological deck is so obviously stacked for his agenda.
Concepts and realities ignored. Euphemistically flattering, spun, phrasing.
