> There is an answer. It is a simple and direct and has my complete support. [...] YIMBY. Build housing. Get rid of barriers to building housing. > It doesn't

> There is an answer. It is a simple and direct and has my complete support. [...] YIMBY. Build housing. Get rid of barriers to building housing. > It doesn't matter whether it is high end, low end, high density apartments, or weird condominiums. LMAO. This "yes to everything" experiment was tried and failed-- it's called suburban Atlanta. Saying yes to everything is how you make an area completely uninhabitable. You can't "just" build housing. You need railed public transit infrastructure first, because you cannot build that shit after the fact. Even if people don't want it, if you don't have support for public transit first, don't build housing-- because once you build those houses, then it's NIMBY/FYIGM/racism on the subject of trains. The result is perpetually-clogged roads and mean commute speed of 4mph, with your "home" being nothing more than a cheaply-constructed, overpriced gilded cage you literally cannot leave at certain times of day if there happens to be a nearby accident. Solutions involve trying to run streetcars and buses over the same impassible roads. The housing situation is a problem, I don't deny it. But saying "fuck it just build" ignores all of the actual urban planning work that needs to happen. It's great for lining the pockets of developers though! They will never live in the hellscape they're being paid to build.