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Perhaps the problem with the availability of housing is the "real estate development" model you describe, which is capital intensive and therefore will be under
by pdonis 5y ago
Perhaps the problem with the availability of housing is the "real estate development" model you describe, which is capital intensive and therefore will be undertaken by large corporations instead of by the people who will actually live in the area and who therefore have a personal stake in how livable it is. Perhaps if more development was done by "young people just moving there", we would have more livable areas and less competition for housing.
- vinceguidry 5y agoOrdinary people don't have the money to, say, build sewers and roads.
- pdonis 5y agoThey do if they pool their resources through, say, property taxes paid to their locality. Localities can build out basic infrastructure without having to have large corporations do all the development. That has the added advantage that you get actual communities that grow and evolve over time instead of sterile cookie cutter suburbs.
- vinceguidry 5y agoWithout the advantages of upfront planning and design, they'll pay more for crappier services. If the area grows significantly, then they'll have to pay even more on top for upgrades. But hey, at least it'll be idyllic. Good luck keeping your kids around after they graduate high school.
- pdonis 5y ago> Without the advantages of upfront planning and design, they'll pay more for crappier services. I've had that experience in neighborhoods that did have the "advantages" of upfront planning and design. I don't think upfront planning and design is the panacea you are making it out to be.
- diordiderot 5y agoMost rural roads are majority funded by federal grants.