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Won't argue with you on the point about car obsession--cities prioritizing cars over humans is a clear problem. I'd like to understand the incentives better--i
by sooheon 7y ago
Won't argue with you on the point about car obsession--cities prioritizing cars over humans is a clear problem.
I'd like to understand the incentives better--if SROs work well to put roofs over homeless, and lead to some level of economic activity where there would have been just unfulfilled need (all seem like big wins), what are the countervailing forces that prevent this from happening?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoWe've largely zoned them out of existence. I think this is strongly influenced by housing policies post-WW2 that helped create modern suburbs. In a nutshell, Americans have a mental model of "proper housing" as housing designed for a fairly upper class nuclear family. We had a fairly high percentage of such just after WW2. Since then, our demographics have diversified away from that, but our housing stock has narrowed towards even more of that. I'm hoping to figure out how to reverse that trend. https://americanhomeworks.blogspot.com/2019/07/modern-american-suburbs.html https://americanhomeworks.blogspot.com/2019/07/modern-americ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy