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>I would like to see this, at the national level: federally strip all downzoning from urban cities, then increasingly tax single-occupancy houses, focusing on s
by gozur88 10y ago
>I would like to see this, at the national level: federally strip all downzoning from urban cities, then increasingly tax single-occupancy houses, focusing on subsidizing and activating high-density housing for all income strata.
Washington already exerts too much influence on far-flung localities. This is the last thing I want to see - people who live in a place should be the ones who set the rules for that place.
- pnathan 10y ago> This is the last thing I want to see - people who live in a place should be the ones who set the rules for that place. I lost all sympathy for that argument when it was part of the key rationales for redlining and keeping the blacks out of town in the 1940s & 1950s.
- gozur88 10y agoThe federal government can exclude those kinds of practices without taking over, though. It's not an either-or situation.