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Actually I love a nearby idea: you can build normally but the more you build, the more restrictive it becomes to build anything more until you grind to a halt.
You should be allowed to build parking in Sim NIMBY. I've never heard a NIMBY oppose more parking. Heaven forbid you allow people too. The federal government needs to strengthen property rights if they want to see more housing at lower prices. I don't think they realize the degree of the housing disaster or its long term impacts on the economy yet. A lot of millennials are aging out of childbearing without having had…
I think we need to reconceptualize property rights. Instead of something you 'own', it's valuable resources that you rented from the community. Rich people gets to use the most valuable land, but they will also likely pay more, and also likely to use it more efficiently, unlike today where you have landowners who sat on lands worth million of dollars and oppose development. This is land hoarding and it's not good.
The American problem is not one of a lack of houses. This is just a symptom. The American Problem is the combination of Income and Wealth Concentration. And those problems were created by asset inflation from Central Banks' manipulation of currency, the ideologies of too-big-to-fail and trickle-down-economics, predatory de-regulation, hostility to labor organization, warmongerism and widespread paranoia that only ser…
We made it illegal to build housing, so we don't have enough housing. We could fix our housing crisis by re-legalizing housing _without_ fixing all of the (very real) problems you describe. You are simply engaging in whataboutism which will _not_ solve our housing crisis.
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> it's more complex than that. Talk about a generic dismissive reply. Could you be more specific about your objections?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
The American problem is not one of a lack of houses. This is just a symptom. The American Problem is the combination of Income and Wealth Concentration. And those problems were created by asset inflation from Central Banks' manipulation of currency, the ideologies of too-big-to-fail and trickle-down-economics, predatory de-regulation, hostility to labor organization, warmongerism and widespread paranoia that only ser…
People are literally lining up down the block to look at apartments in the most competitive markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-18/looking-t...
The American problem is not one of a lack of houses. This is just a symptom. The American Problem is the combination of Income and Wealth Concentration. And those problems were created by asset inflation from Central Banks' manipulation of currency, the ideologies of too-big-to-fail and trickle-down-economics, predatory de-regulation, hostility to labor organization, warmongerism and widespread paranoia that only ser…
Yes, it's the lack of houses, or more specifically, lack of land, where you're allowed to build houses. We also have thousands and thousands of cars and trucks driving through small villages, because a road cannot be built, because someone from a different part of country saw a butterfly there once. We have areas with lots of unemployment where they couldn't even start a brewery, because people complained.
Watching places like san francisco, with even worse housing problems, and then seeing rows of single family houses instead of huge apartment buildings is an indicator of that... more people, denser housing... if NIMBYers don't allow it, you get a housing problem.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
It's easy not to suffer from Brandolini's law if your entire comment is a generic dismissal. It's a lot harder if you have something to say.
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It's easy not to suffer from Brandolini's law if your entire comment is a generic dismissal. It's a lot harder if you have something to say.
Did the Bernie Sanders stump speech that is at the top of this thread link any of their bullet points back to NIMBY somehow?
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People are literally lining up down the block to look at apartments in the most competitive markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-18/looking-t...
That's why they're called competitive markets. Other news: the temperature is very high in hot places.
> He lived in San Francisco before moving to Brooklyn This makes these guys seem like roving wealthy YIMBY gentrifiers from central casting. Going from trendy attractive spot to trendy attractive spot, complaining about the rent and the locals.
If lots of people want to live in Brooklyn, then they should obviously be allowed to do that. And developers should obviously be allowed to respond to that demand by building housing.