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Pure market based solutions will never work and neither will restrictive planning policies. The only way to bring back real neighborhoods is to completely remov
by tancop 1mo ago
Pure market based solutions will never work and neither will restrictive planning policies. The only way to bring back real neighborhoods is to completely remove fixed zoning for direct neighbor votes or local councils deciding individual projects, and create a federal investment fund that will give cheap loans to builders who plan to do what the community actually wants.
Of course the root cause of this is wealth concentration, and that's not something you can fix with a couple new laws.
- foxglacier 1mo agoHow is it wealth concentration? TFA claims the opposite - distributed ownership as the cause. I agree with you about planning. Councils keep wanting to control how their neighborhoods look - because people who live there don't want their own stupid neighbors making their own decisions and "ruining" it. So they impose rules that lead to uniformity. Where I live, most new houses look indistinguishable from each other, but they all have the same multi colored offset walls with two different cladding types and alternating angles of their roofs. A style guideline made by the council to force them to look interesting.
- AngryData 1mo agoExcept the distributed ownership is FAR from being anywhere near evenly distributed. 7-11 doesn't have half the population holding 50%+ of its value. It has 50% of the population holding 1% of the business, 1% holding 10% of the business, and then 0.1% holding 50%+ of the business.