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> American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in g
by arcanus 10y ago
> American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in general
That's over-generalizing. Many locations in the USA have sensible zoning. SF is the exception.
- lovich 10y agoBoston's another hub and large parts of the metro area dont allow increasing housing density easily
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI live in Somerville, MA, and we had an article showing that only 22 buildings in our whole city are legal to build again under current zoning codes[1]. [1] -- http://www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11948630/somerville-zoning-illegal http://www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11948630/somerville-zoning-ille...
- thatwebdude 10y agoAgreed, in the Midwest they're building new 2,500 sqft. homes every 6 months around here. (Quite poorly BTW) Every 5 or 10 years an entirely new development emerges. Any hindrance occurs to municipalities without room to grow. And for city zoning, it doesn't appear they have an issue "building up" instead of out.