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So... increasing the housing density in urban areas solves a lot of housing-related problems? It's almost like this is a workaround to city government bodies r

So... increasing the housing density in urban areas solves a lot of housing-related problems? It's almost like this is a workaround to city government bodies routinely preventing the construction of more efficient housing solutions, using a loophole in the NIMBY rules. The solution is almost always to build more housing units, and then to stack them on top of each other whenever you run out of open land. You can call it "densification", but that's not a particularly cromulent word.

taneq 9y ago
It's a perfectly cromulent word to describe the act of embiggening the number of houses per unit area.
danans 9y ago
In many places the NIMBY lobby is trying to prevent ADUs. In response, last year California outlawed the practice of municipalities summarily banning ADUs. http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/AccessoryDwellingUnits.shtml http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/AccessoryDwellingUnits...