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> You can never build enough housing in a high-demand city without destroying the city; the demand is too elastic, the incentives between neighborhoods/culture
by Kalium 12y ago
> You can never build enough housing in a high-demand city without destroying the city; the demand is too elastic, the incentives between neighborhoods/culture and developers too misaligned.
Come on. Say what you mean. You don't want things to change, because then things would be different and you'd have to have Those People in your wonderful inclusive life.
And that would be bad. So down with inclusiveness!
- teacup50 12y agoIn many places, yes, density would objectively and significantly decrease the quality of life of all existing residents, and that would be bad.
- Kalium 12y agoFortunately for us all, precious few of those places are in the Bay. The vast majority of San Francisco can't even be reasonably called mid-rise neighborhoods. But let's not get caught up in that yet. In what way would density "objectively and significantly decrease the quality of life of all existing residents"? From your phrasing, you clearly have solid evidence and objective metrics for your rather strong claim about both significance and universality.