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> With one of the lowest density in the world (36/km²) this should be a NON issue. The issue is traditional working practices. People are forced to cluster in
by gumballindie 3y ago
> With one of the lowest density in the world (36/km²) this should be a NON issue.
The issue is traditional working practices. People are forced to cluster in large cities, as opposed to spreading around, particularly where jobs can be done remotely. There's literarly no need to have software engineers, marketing and sales people, customer support, accountants, etc in city offices. This is an issue all over the world where work hasn't adopted modern practices.
- ericmay 3y agoI get where you’re coming from here, but outside of a few major metro areas most people are spread around, which is precisely the problem. Driving 20 miles (or 30 minutes) to your place of work is not clustering and is causing us all sorts of economic problems. Just Wednesday my dental hygienist told me she drives around an hour to get to the office. That’s an anecdote of course, but that’s a normal thing for Americans. That’s a huge problem. To your point about big single offices where all of these workers are “in the city” which mostly are spread out suburban office parks, I would agree, which is why we need less sprawl and more people living closer together and clustering around the cities that they are residing in.
- tptacek 3y agoSo far on this thread as solutions to the housing crisis we've seen: * Building houses on federally-owned land in the middle of rural Oregon * Switching everybody to a plant-based diet * Allowing all the white-collar knowledge workers to work remotely so they'll migrate out of the cities. I'm sure we'll get other creative ideas too. But eliminating single-family zoning seems a lot simpler.