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> That is until an area is filled Thats the issue with your approach. Supply and demand will cause housing in an area to be knocked down and replaced with dens
by 0x000000E2 5y ago
> That is until an area is filled
Thats the issue with your approach. Supply and demand will cause housing in an area to be knocked down and replaced with denser housing. Townhouses, apartments, skyscrapers eventually.
In some places this natural replacement cycle is feircly resisted and local governments are bent to the will of incumbents.
HN leans heavily liberal but this is one place where conservative "small government" lack of regulations works better. In liberal areas local residents will co-opt the systems for making local regulations to protect their own investments. In conservative areas it's more difficult to NIMBY your way to halt development.
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- epistasis 5y agoI agree with most of this, but "Local control" of housing of this sort is generally a conservative phenomenon. However, the bigger effect isn't typical left-right politics but instead the class-divide of homeowners versus renters. Self-identified liberals are more receptive to nearby apartments than self-identified conservatives. But the bigger effect is homeowners versus those in apartments. People in apartments are far more supportive of new apartments, and homeowners are less supportive, and this effect is bigger than the political divide.