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Great. Cars are a significant contributor to the housing crisis. Would have been much better if that hadn’t happened. Unfortunately, we need to build affordabl
by compiler-guy 5y ago
Great. Cars are a significant contributor to the housing crisis. Would have been much better if that hadn’t happened.
Unfortunately, we need to build affordable housing in the cities we have, not in the cities in some magical world where the car didn’t take over.
Unless, of course, you want to wait a couple of decades for good public transportation to show up before housing the underserved.
Talking about how society should have done something different and casting blame moves the ball forward exactly zero steps, and talking about it in this article is an utter waste of time.
The public transpiration problem needs to be solved, but won’t be solved in the even the medium term and is a distraction from solving other problems we have today.
- notatoad 5y agoThere's plenty of easy and cheap options that can be taken to shift cities away from car dependence without tearing them down and rebuilding them. step one would be to abolish mandatory parking minimums. if a developer wants to use their entire lot size for housing and not provide any parking, they should be able to. if the market demands parking, the market can build market-rate parking. it's ridiculous that we have legal requirements for how much housing there is for cars, but not how much housing there is for people.