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> People need to have affordable access to medium-to-high density housing for reasons of physical and mental and cultural health. Physical and mental health is
by lelanthran 3y ago
> People need to have affordable access to medium-to-high density housing for reasons of physical and mental and cultural health.
Physical and mental health is better out of the city than in it.
And cultural health is purely subjective: what on earth makes you think that what you consider good for culture is the same as what everyone else considers good culture.
This is what I meant by attempting to enforce your moral mores on everyone else.
> Concentrating people in medium-to-high density housing makes it easier to achieve our decarbonization goals
Well that's not the problem being discussed here, is it?
We're talking about how to make certain centers more affordable wrt housing.
Removing need is a good first step, as that lets people who want to live elsewhere, live elsewhere.
- rickydroll 3y ago> Physical and mental health is better out of the city than in it. For some people. I'm one of those out-of-the-city-is-better people. However, I would never try to force it on anyone as it would make them miserable and ruin the country for people who want to be there. Sadly, it is difficult to keep city lights in the city.
- m_fayer 3y agoI wrote medium-to-high density, which means anything between city and "walkable town with a core". This doesn't preclude detached homes. It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in terms of the effects it has on the most people's mental health.
- rickydroll 3y agoah, I understand. I've lived in both city and "walkable town with a core. I now live 2 miles outside of a New England mill city. The value of each place has been for what I can reach, not the place itself.
- lelanthran 3y ago> It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in terms of the effects it has on the most people's mental health. Come on now: "Surburbia has more negative effects of people's mental health than high-density living" sounds like both pure conjecture and wishful thinking on your part. Were there any measurements actually done? What are you basing this assertion on?
- Kbelicius 3y agoMakes sense. A quick search shows that there is research on this subject and results seem to agree with GP. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230529/Study-shows-link-between-living-in-suburban-areas-and-depression-risk.aspx https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230529/Study-shows-link-...