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>you’d be hard pressed to find a city that bends over backwards more with social policies That really doesn't mesh together with the extremely restrictive buil
by neoromantique 4y ago
>you’d be hard pressed to find a city that bends over backwards more with social policies
That really doesn't mesh together with the extremely restrictive building code that makes housing crisis so much worse.
- xp84 4y agoAre you saying people breaking into cars and stabbing people are doing so because they can afford say, $1800 in rent but can’t find a place under $2900? Because if the city could drive rents down that far across the board by encouraging new home construction, I would consider that a wildly successful outcome. But even then I don’t think it would change almost anything about the crime and homelessness problems. I think the criminals are mostly either desperate addicts who have no chance at turning it around unless they had serious help with their illnesses, or, just callous criminals who could change but prefer doing crime to working. And it doesn’t even take that many — especially of that second group — to make everybody miserable. Edit: just want to clarify: I am absolutely in favor of a “build, build, build, build, build” housing policy. Despite everything I said, it would still make lots of things better including improving density, making transit make sense.
- neoromantique 4y agoI am saying that this is of course a complex issue with many driving forces behind it, but housing crisis is definitively a major part of it.