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You're making a bad faith argument about what YIMBYism is about. Yes, it means more market rate housing, but also more affordable housing development, and more
by ch4s3 9y ago
You're making a bad faith argument about what YIMBYism is about. Yes, it means more market rate housing, but also more affordable housing development, and more transit.
- zjaffee 9y agoYou say this, but as someone whose a part of many yimby groups that have been polled, the majority of people are in favor of focusing everything being economically created.
- ch4s3 9y agoI can't speak for individual YIMBY groups in SF, where I don't live. If that's the case in SF, then the movement there is being a bit short sighted. I do still think the parent is incorrect in what appears to be the claim that market rate development isn't part of the solution at all. Also the claim that foreign investors rent apartments to "park money" is on its face wrong. You can't stash money in a rental unit you don't own. This sort of claim absent evidence borders on xenophobia, IMO.
- Decade 9y agoEconomically created housing has the benefit that it pays for itself. If we can’t even get housing that pays for itself, then the system is completely stupid. (Dennis Richards, take note.)