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Nah, this is wrong and cynical. We could have easily built the housing we need but we made it too hard through zoning.
by wmf 3y ago
Nah, this is wrong and cynical. We could have easily built the housing we need but we made it too hard through zoning.
- EA-3167 3y agoPeople to need to understand that human nature and incentives are easy to talk about changing, and nearly impossible to change. It's why we're slow-walking towards catastrophic climate change.
- bell-cot 3y ago> We could have easily built the housing we need... If mom, dad, and 4 kids were content to share a 1k square foot "starter" house in 1970, but now all 6 of 'em (parents are divorced) want their own 2.5k square foot McMansion - that's a 15X increase in housing stock requirements. Admitting that the overall demand-side numbers aren't that bad..."no zoning" would still not be anything like a cure for the problem.