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by foxyv 3y ago
I want people to have the freedom to build what they want on their own land. I want people to have the freedom to live where they want and how they want.
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by foxyv 3y ago
I'm not saying we should bulldoze all the single family homes and make everyone live in filing cabinets. What I'm saying is people should be free to choose. We want the people who enjoy living in cities to have a place to live IN
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by foxyv 3y ago
> I don’t think sfh have been foisted on us by stupid or conniving urban planners. No, it's been foisted on us by corrupt local city officials and massive suburban developers. They have systemically destroyed our city centers turnin
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by foxyv 3y ago
We definitely need to have both types of housing. We just want the freedom to choose.
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by foxyv 3y ago
No one is more reliant on other people than someone living on a farm or out in the middle of nowhere. This is why rural neighbors are often so friendly. When something goes wrong you only have each other. Suburbia relies almost entirely on
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by foxyv 3y ago
I have had problems with bad neighbors in my old apartment as well as out on county land. It's just a universal problem honestly. You are definitely right about American apartments sucking. But they have to get the money for parking fr
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by foxyv 3y ago
That's great! But we need places for people to live too. Not everyone wants to own acreage. Some people just want a place to lay their head that's close to where they work and a nice school for their kids. It also doesn't hav
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by foxyv 3y ago
Not saying without kitchens so much as smaller kitchens. When you look at new home construction in the past 10 years, they have MASSIVE kitchens. A lot of them are bigger than my first apartment. https://www.homes.com/proper
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by foxyv 3y ago
I don't think they have ever lived in such a structure. They are probably talking about living in a two story light timber frame apartment from the 70s/80s. The walls are paper thin and you can wake up your neighbor walking in sli
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by foxyv 3y ago
Double stairways and building code requirements don't seem terribly onerous to me. However, the parking minimums and traffic flow requirements do. In Dallas, each 500 square feet of a unit is required to have a parking space... A parki
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by foxyv 3y ago
A LOT of people want to live in such places. However, most of the problems you mention are a result of car dependency and not dense housing itself. Kids have nowhere to play because cars make it unsafe for them to roam. You have no hobbies
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by foxyv 3y ago
American apartments are horrible. However, that isn't a problem with dense housing itself so much as how our cities are built.
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by foxyv 3y ago
Don't forget pig headed stupidity!
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by foxyv 3y ago
I'm not saying that no one would build their own home theatre or restaurant sized kitchen. But a lot of people honestly wouldn't bother if they had other options in their community. It moves the cost/benefit curve over by a s
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by foxyv 3y ago
I'm not saying that no one will want their own mansion far away from the city. I'm just saying that a lot of people don't want to pay for their own movie theatre and restaurant size kitchen. Some people just want a tiny kitch
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by foxyv 3y ago
Also, the absurd level of car ownership is dragging us down a lot. The fact that old people who should absolutely not be driving HAVE to drive is absurd. If we could make it so only 50% of people NEED a car it would be a huge step in the ri
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by foxyv 3y ago
Anyone who has lived in a rural area that hasn't been subsidized can tell you why spreading out kinda sucks. The power company charges you $100k to run a line to your house. The phone company charges you $20k to run a copper line to gi
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by foxyv 3y ago
It sounds like you live in a very affluent area. There are ways to build cities like you live in that are affordable to everyone. But minimum parking standards make it almost impossible.
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by foxyv 3y ago
Local elections have notoriously low voter turnout and candidates are often supported by developers and real estate brokers. Often local city council members are outright bribed by people who have an interest in only approving their own pro
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by foxyv 3y ago
Despite their reputation for car centric design in the suburbs, Houston is actually building a LOT of multi-family dwellings. This is helping with affordability. https://catalyst.independent.org/2019/12/18/how
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by foxyv 3y ago
If you want to live in a mansion and can afford it I say "All the power to you!" But all the rest of us will be happy to live in an affordable place where we can get a slice of pizza and a cold beer without driving 20 minutes. Als
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by foxyv 3y ago
Texas.
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by foxyv 3y ago
If I can walk less than a mile to a theatre and pay $10 to watch a movie on a giant screen, I won't want to pay $10k to create a home theatre. If I can get food from around the world by walking 10 minutes to 20+ restaurants, I won&#x27
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by foxyv 3y ago
I agree, I've lived in such apartments and hated them. However, you will notice that such buildings are usually 50+ years old and barely maintained. The reason for this is the cost to create new ones is absurdly high due to planning re
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by foxyv 3y ago
I do not know how you arrived at these odd conclusions, but I would recommend reading a few books on urbanism to understand exactly what I'm proposing. The High Cost of Free Parking - https://a.co/d/7NIZHp9 Strong
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by foxyv 3y ago
American multi-family dwellings are constructed so poorly compared to other countries. You should not be able to hear your neighbors in a modern apartment building or hotel. Unfortunately since building permits and zoning restrictions are s
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by foxyv 3y ago
A huge reason these shared spaces are so miserable is because the communities around them cannot support them. Parking minimums and low density means that not only are these commercial properties insanely expensive, but also that not enough
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by foxyv 3y ago
I'm not saying we should ban 4000 sq.ft. detached homes on large sprawling lots. They just shouldn't be the ONLY type of home being built. Give people options so they can choose. In fact, if you want to have that beautiful home su
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by foxyv 3y ago
To Start: Zoning laws, land use restrictions, parking minimums, property covenants and restrictions, traffic flow requirements, and minimum offsets.
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by foxyv 3y ago
> There's plenty of space to build new homes of all types. Unfortunately this is not the case in North America. Very little land is zoned to allow such communities. Those areas that are have become so insanely expensive only the ext

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