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"No zoning" is has its merits, but the core problem here is no regulation. If each house took up one whole floor, there wouldn't be an article. These people a
by irjustin 6y ago
"No zoning" is has its merits, but the core problem here is no regulation.
If each house took up one whole floor, there wouldn't be an article.
These people are here, presumably, because it's the best thing they can afford. If you followed them from here to another location - the stories probably would different but equally difficult/terrible.
It takes effort, for sure, but good public housing can work.
- coldcode 6y agoGood public housing only works if the government (and the people) want it to. In this case no one cared about who would live there, and stuck them in a place people should not live. Likely someone made a large fortune and gave zero concerns about the residents, and the government got poor people out of sight and out of mind.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThe core problem here isn't no regulation. It's government regulating by subsidy and causing these otherwise non-viable office to apartment conversions to spring up where they shouldn't have. You get what you incentivize.