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We have tried four decades of your "let's limit housing" plan in California. In contrast to improving people's lives, it's made everybody's lives worse, through
by epistasis 5y ago
We have tried four decades of your "let's limit housing" plan in California. In contrast to improving people's lives, it's made everybody's lives worse, through these means:
1) massive commutes by car
2) astronomical housing prices
3) forcing people out of state due to these massive housing prices
4) increased pollution because of increased commutes from further and further exurbs
5) massive homelessness from those that aren't able to move before they run out of money, or who hit a massive car or medical expense as the struggle to pay for housing.
Take a peak at the carbon consumption of households in dense areas and suburban areas across the US:
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cmjones/viz/USHouseholdCarbonFootprintbyZIpCode/Sheet2 https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/cmjones/viz/USHouseho...
Dense urban living is sustainable, suburban living is burning the planet.
The world needs a lot more of these towers. If there's going to be less of any sort kf housing, it's time to tear down suburban homes.
- TedShiller 5y agomore housing is terrible for the environment