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Oh, the more homes is easy. Everybody supports more homes in the abstract, but every specific plan gets shot down because it's too tall or too sprawl or not in

by Pxtl 7y ago

Oh, the more homes is easy. Everybody supports more homes in the abstract, but every specific plan gets shot down because it's too tall or too sprawl or not in keeping with the feel of the neighborhood - often by the same people who want more housing, just NIMBY.

dev_dull 7y ago
Or they don’t want to remove the debilitating environment and neighborhood regulation which makes new home construction take years when it could be months. Or they want lots of new housing, but they also want the owner to rent control all units. Or they want at least 30% of the units to be under market rent. In other words, they want something for nothing and they’re fine with YOU being stuck with the consequences.
noneeeed 7y ago
Rural housing in the UK is hamstrung by this problem. On the one hand everyone complains that their kids have to move away because they can't afford to live in the village they grew up in, but if you suggest building more houses they kick up a stink. Then they complain that the village is dying because it's all rich people's second homes in the country. While I have distain for a lot of politicians, at the same time I'm not sure anything would convince me to be one, it's a pretty thankless task full of no-win situations in which people will bitch and main no matter what you do.
- sien 7y ago
  You could join UK YIMBY https://www.ukyimby.com/ https://www.ukyimby.com/
  - noneeeed 7y ago
    I'd not heard of that, cool. Glad to see people are starting to push back against all the cake-and-eat-it nimbys. I live in Bath, which despite being a world heritage site, is actually building quite a lot of new home, some in developments on the outskirts, and lots of infill on brownfield sites. Not a fan of some of the architecture, but glad to see more being built. Now if we ould just sort out the bus network...

by Pxtl 7y ago

dev_dull 7y ago

Or they don’t want to remove the debilitating environment and neighborhood regulation which makes new home construction take years when it could be months. Or they want lots of new housing, but they also want the owner to rent control all units. Or they want at least 30% of the units to be under market rent. In other words, they want something for nothing and they’re fine with YOU being stuck with the consequences.

noneeeed 7y ago

Rural housing in the UK is hamstrung by this problem. On the one hand everyone complains that their kids have to move away because they can't afford to live in the village they grew up in, but if you suggest building more houses they kick up a stink. Then they complain that the village is dying because it's all rich people's second homes in the country. While I have distain for a lot of politicians, at the same time I'm not sure anything would convince me to be one, it's a pretty thankless task full of no-win situations in which people will bitch and main no matter what you do.

sien 7y ago
You could join UK YIMBY https://www.ukyimby.com/ https://www.ukyimby.com/
- noneeeed 7y ago
  I'd not heard of that, cool. Glad to see people are starting to push back against all the cake-and-eat-it nimbys. I live in Bath, which despite being a world heritage site, is actually building quite a lot of new home, some in developments on the outskirts, and lots of infill on brownfield sites. Not a fan of some of the architecture, but glad to see more being built. Now if we ould just sort out the bus network...