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It is a reasonable concern. So reasonable in fact that everyone has it and thus the natural state of things is American cities all try to ban dense housing. Hen
by MarkSweep 2y ago
It is a reasonable concern. So reasonable in fact that everyone has it and thus the natural state of things is American cities all try to ban dense housing. Hence the housing crisis.
This is the logic behind some states like California trying to reduce the amount of local control over how dense housing can be. It is a state-wide problem that every city is disincentivized to solve.
While you were probably using hyperbole, I don’t think it’s easy to 5x the population of a city with infill housing. Just financing, land acquisition, demolition, construction, and sales takes a while. Government redtape only adds more time.
- lotsoweiners 2y agoIf you’re trying to 5x the population of any city with a housing cost issue then I suppose you are going to have a lot more problems than housing.
- alistairSH 2y agoDo we really need to 5x the population? Or would adding a studio apt to the basement of every SFH solve it (not saying this should be the solution, just thinking scope of problem)? FWIW, I spent a few weeks working remote/vacationing in Cape Canaveral, FL two years ago (the town, not the military base). It has mixed housing - SFHs, duplex, and two-story (~8 unit) apartment blocks - it seemed to work well. It felt like a place I could happily live (other than the heat).