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The real tragedy here is land-use restrictions Should community residents not have the freedom to enforce restrictions on their own communities? Would these co
by H0n3sty 11y ago
The real tragedy here is land-use restrictions
Should community residents not have the freedom to enforce restrictions on their own communities? Would these communities be as desirable if they allowed new residents to crowd out the old residents?
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>Should community residents not have the freedom to enforce restrictions on their own communities? Definitely not. Land is a common asset of all of society: taking away building sites while basically all urban areas (ie: with jobs) suffer housing shortages is exploiting the commons.
- H0n3sty 11y agoWould you also permit hazardous chemical refineries to be built alongside or within residential communities? Are there any freedoms of self-government that you would like to see preserved?
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>Would you also permit hazardous chemical refineries to be built alongside or within residential communities? Probably not, but I'd have their site planned at the regional/state/province level rather than allowing each individual municipality to say "NIMBY!" to everything. Because most NIMBY measures aren't about chemical refineries, they're about the working class, about sites of housing and employment for ordinary people.
- H0n3sty 11y agoSo you're okay with reducing home values by placing high-density housing anywhere (and the corresponding violent crime risks), but not with reducing home values by placing industrial facilities anywhere (along with their corresponding health risks).
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoWell yes, of course. High-density housing provides a lot more good with a lot less bad than chemical refineries. Besides which, it's both factually wrong and in severely bad taste to imply that working-class people are a form of chemical pollution. Also, violent crime is at an all-time low, in dense cities as much as in rural suburbs right now. The whole view that dense housing somehow equals violent crime is decades out of date and largely only ever applied to deliberately-created black ghettoes in the first place.