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>Rather than trying to cram 5 pounds of crap into a 10 pound bag This is what you call living in high rises in cities like Manhattan or San Francisco? >There
by pydry 3y ago
>Rather than trying to cram 5 pounds of crap into a 10 pound bag
This is what you call living in high rises in cities like Manhattan or San Francisco?
>There is a concept of being at capacity
Capacity which tax policy has been designed to artificially throttle. It doesn't really matter if the market wants to build high rises 15 minutes from the offices in SF and people want to live in high rises 15 minutes from work if a stick in the mud lives there in a $6 million bungalow he inherited from his mom who bought it in 1974.
Obviously if he were taxed a bit higher for occupying valuable land he would sell up and leave and those apartments could be built. But, why not indulge the NIMBY desire to be "at capacity"? Those NIMBYs probably worked hard for that $6 million by buying in the 90s or by being pushed out of the vagina of somebody who did.
- phmqk76 3y agoIf you actually had experience living or working in Manhattan, you’d see that it has the infrastructure to enable density - namely, the country’s most intricate and heavily-used subway and transit system, by a mile. (17x the ridership compared to the next largest, Chicago.) But yeah, let’s build density without discussing how we rebuild cities with transit and how we pay for this multi-decade endeavor that will conservatively cost tens of billions per city. It’s almost like the half-baked “solution” of deregulation doesn’t actually make sense once you analyze it for five minutes, oh and it’s the preferred, and only, policy pushed hard by developers. Funny how that works.