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Lots of people would benefit if they had housing to live in. There's no need for it to be some extreme thing like your example. NIMBYism is to blame for the la
by davidw 2y ago
Lots of people would benefit if they had housing to live in. There's no need for it to be some extreme thing like your example.
NIMBYism is to blame for the lack of hundreds of homes here in the small city I live in, in Oregon, since I started tracking these things.
It's not the only factor, but things like interest rates are something our city councils and state legislatures can't control. Saying 'yes' to a new apartment building is very much something they can control.
- Avicebron 2y agoIf saying yes to a new apartment build is all it takes and doing so won't have any negative impacts on the community at all, and there is someone who can guarantee that and ensure that. Then sure, seems odd that a state legislature and city council wouldn't sign off. It seems like maybe the issue is that people are saying "hey, I don't want to live next to or in high density housing, that's not why I live in a small city in Oregon"...well, ask them, hey would you be ok with this being a very tasteful, non-intrusive, home in your neighborhood with a quiet family that fits in well with everyone. They might say yes, which means likely people are not making enough money to live that way, so the real problem is that people don't want to have slums set up in the name of affordable housing.
- davidw 2y agoSo a big part of the problem is that we feel the need to give people a veto about apartments, but not single detached units. That's a decent portion of our housing crisis right there! "Would we ask any of the same questions of a new single-family house in the same neighborhood?" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/28/new-apartments-and-the-what-if-game https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/28/new-apartments...
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- squigz 2y agoI'm not sure that's unreasonable, as there's a fairly large difference between a house and an apartment - usually on the scale of several floors.