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You could probably find tons of low productivity industrial parks to raze to the ground in most cities and build housing if zoning wasn't a thing. If everything
by dmix 3y ago
You could probably find tons of low productivity industrial parks to raze to the ground in most cities and build housing if zoning wasn't a thing. If everything had to compete with housing markets absent heavy top-down gov planning cities would start shapeshifting very quickly.
- icpmacdo 3y agoI think we will evolve to this soon, first slowly then quickly, I don’t think we will self immolate over housing
- xyzzy123 3y agoYou can raze the "low productivity" industrial parks and then set your watch by further price spikes in trades, logistics and maintenance.
- dmix 3y agoIf there's a market for it then it will exist. No one is stopping distribution warehouses from existing, it would be making warehouse real estate compete with everyone else. If it means shipping costs on Amazon to a particular region has to increase by a couple cents so people can buy a house in an area that's $50k+ cheaper (or at all) that's just basic competition of resources which we don't get up in arms about in any other situation. If housing prices are still unnaturally high (putting pressure on other industries) then solve all the other issues beyond zoning: pro-NIMBY municipal policy, fire any politician/counselor who uses the phrase "rent control", eliminate height restrictions, streamline inefficient/byzantine development regulations and licensing, modernize and reform unions that slow housing development to preserve the original intended societal benefits of unions without the legacy cruft generating all the negative baggage, etc.