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This is some lazy math: > A trailer park at 5 homes per acre and 2.5 people per household works out to 8,000 people per square mile, or more than twice as dens

by habosa 6y ago

This is some lazy math: > A trailer park at 5 homes per acre and 2.5 people per household works out to 8,000 people per square mile, or more than twice as dense as Phoenix. Well yes but a trailer park is just housing. What about streets, businesses, and open space? Nobody wants to live in an infinite trailer park even if it's an infinite luxury trailer park. I actually think there's amazing potential for mixed-use commercial/residential space in a trailer park because the cost of starting a new business would be so low and you could even relocate your business over time. But until the non-housing aspects are addressed a trailer park is just a cheap suburb, which isn't really inspiring.

Ensorceled 6y ago
This is my real objection to trailer parks ... it's still a suburb, just cheaper. We shouldn't be building sprawling, energy inefficient, land destroying, isolating suburbs. Grass is the largest irrigated "crop" in the US ... https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-biggest-crop-is-grass-2016-2?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-biggest-crop-is-gra...
- lai-yin 6y ago
  Every alternative to suburbs has its own serious problems. People like living in suburbs. I like living in them. And maybe if we rebrand trailer parks as tiny home communities it will change attitudes about cheap, affordable homes.
  - culopatin 6y ago
    I think allowing a mix of commercial with suburb would solve some of the issues we are having. I’m not from the US and I miss walking down to the store to get some staples (not a corner store, a real food store with more than milk and lottery). Having a vegetable shop, a butcher, a hair salon, small town way is the way to go. You socialize with your neighbor while you wait, hear some gossip, get acquainted with your veggie guy so next time he picks up those dragon fruits you like, etc. I currently have to drive 3 miles to get to a supermarket. All the “food stores” near me are in a somewhat industrial area across the train tracks and are ghetto. They only sell beer, maybe bread and lottery tickets, and are secured like a bank. Not the feeling you want. My fancy neighborhood doesn’t have a single store. Not even a gas station. I’m forced to drive out. Not great.
  - Ensorceled 6y ago
    Well, everything humans do at scale has serious problems, but how is, for instance, mixed use urban density worse than infinitely sprawling suburbs?

by habosa 6y ago

Ensorceled 6y ago

This is my real objection to trailer parks ... it's still a suburb, just cheaper. We shouldn't be building sprawling, energy inefficient, land destroying, isolating suburbs. Grass is the largest irrigated "crop" in the US ... https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-biggest-crop-is-grass-2016-2?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-biggest-crop-is-gra...

lai-yin 6y ago
Every alternative to suburbs has its own serious problems. People like living in suburbs. I like living in them. And maybe if we rebrand trailer parks as tiny home communities it will change attitudes about cheap, affordable homes.
- culopatin 6y ago
  I think allowing a mix of commercial with suburb would solve some of the issues we are having. I’m not from the US and I miss walking down to the store to get some staples (not a corner store, a real food store with more than milk and lottery). Having a vegetable shop, a butcher, a hair salon, small town way is the way to go. You socialize with your neighbor while you wait, hear some gossip, get acquainted with your veggie guy so next time he picks up those dragon fruits you like, etc. I currently have to drive 3 miles to get to a supermarket. All the “food stores” near me are in a somewhat industrial area across the train tracks and are ghetto. They only sell beer, maybe bread and lottery tickets, and are secured like a bank. Not the feeling you want. My fancy neighborhood doesn’t have a single store. Not even a gas station. I’m forced to drive out. Not great.
- Ensorceled 6y ago
  Well, everything humans do at scale has serious problems, but how is, for instance, mixed use urban density worse than infinitely sprawling suburbs?