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It’s a chicken and egg problem: why build infrastructure that is not currently needed. And if try to attach the infrastructure construction to the housing const
by MarkSweep 6y ago
It’s a chicken and egg problem: why build infrastructure that is not currently needed. And if try to attach the infrastructure construction to the housing construction, it complicates the process. This reduces supply.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- dmitriid 6y ago> And if try to attach the infrastructure construction to the housing construction, it complicates the process. That's how you end up with public transport overwhelmed, electric grid strained, local schools and kindergartens overflown. Because instead of "attaching infrastructure construction to the housing construction" you just build housing. Lots of it.
- Lammy 6y agoAnd then there will be a unified voice to fix those issues, versus the reality today where all those things already happen, just only to the poorest and least-represented.
- dmitriid 6y ago> And then there will be a unified voice to fix those issues By then it will already be too late, and you would have to tear down half or more of what has been built just to fix the issues.