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There was a post on hacker news about this. Study in Finland showed it doesn't matter the type of housing, if it's luxury people move up and out of what they ar
by bennysomething 4y ago
There was a post on hacker news about this. Study in Finland showed it doesn't matter the type of housing, if it's luxury people move up and out of what they are currently in and the people below follow.
Not surprising really, it's just supply and demand.
- watwut 4y agoAt some point, you run out of land with reasonable commute times.
- bombcar 4y agoCities aren’t black holes that cause all job locations to collapse into a singularity. If density were allowed to grow you’d find jobs appearing in other places (and the biggest cities have this already - the jobs aren’t only in the central metro area).
- barry-cotter 4y agoWe have the technology to stack dwellings on top of each other. If commute times become unreasonable we also have the technology to reduce it, with trams or rail. Even better build the commute infrastructure first and then the housing but Singapore and Manhattan show pretty clearly what’s possible. Shanghai didn’t have a metro system 20 years ago. Now it’s the world's biggest.
- watwut 4y agoBut that is what falls into "affordable housing" category. Comment I reacted to said it is not needed, because people move.
- bennysomething 4y agoIt doesn't all fall into affordable housing category, people are complaining in London about new luxury high rise apartments because they are high end and "not affordable".