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“Tokyo is one of the few cities in which supply has kept up with demand, keeping a crisis from developing. But that is due largely to deregulated housing polici
by fbonetti 8y ago
“Tokyo is one of the few cities in which supply has kept up with demand, keeping a crisis from developing. But that is due largely to deregulated housing policies that other countries would have a hard time reproducing.”
This “crisis” is completely artificial and the solution is obvious: take off the zoning straight jacket and make it legal to build higher density housing.
Property owners should have zero authority over anything outside of their property lines. Giving Joe Blow the ability to shout down and bikeshed new developments is idiotic.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoYou are not wrong. The future is extreme high density living. We are trying to put 7 billion people in cities. People have to give up their suburbia dreams.
- tshannon 8y agoI wonder if there is a little bit of a chicken and egg problem. How many apartment buildings are built for middle class families with 2.5 kids.
- sieabahlpark 8y agoI'll give up suburbia when the apt I can get doesn't deafen me with city noise. Too stressful living in constant noise.