The Boston triple decker should be the standard home of North America and nobody can tell me otherwise.
Can you explain this for the non-US audience?
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#13Land Value Tax being the main method of taxation would encourage municipalities to adopt things like this.
I have yet to understand why people have made land value tax a thing.
As I understand it, land value and improvements are already taxed but a land value tax would only tax land value.
Can someone make this make sense? Why would this promote development?
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#14The Boston triple decker should be the standard home of North America and nobody can tell me otherwise.
100% agree. Somerville (city outside of Boston) is 19th on this list of densest cities in the US and I attribute it mostly to 2 and 3-family homes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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#15I have a great idea how to solve housing shortage in US: ban single family houses inside and near the city borders. Make 25-mile zone where new construction could be multi family only.
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#16No mention of the ADA in the entire article - I guess people with mobility issues should go fly a kite.
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#17European here.
I can't even put to words my embafflement upon having learnt that you US folks need two staircases.
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#18I have a great idea how to solve housing shortage in US: ban single family houses inside and near the city borders. Make 25-mile zone where new construction could be multi family only.
Which cities? Why 25?
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#19I have a great idea how to solve housing shortage in US: ban single family houses inside and near the city borders. Make 25-mile zone where new construction could be multi family only.
This dovetails nicely with the push for WFH.
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#20No.
It’s not only fire that’s a hazard, but a personal safety thing. Most men here probably never experienced being stalked, or having to turn around when your path is through a group of shady characters.
In the Midwest, brick/concrete fire stairwells have another benefit: tornado shelters. While a sufficient tornado would decimate any wooden structure, these stairwells provide essential protection from the main hazard in a tornado: flying debris.
Offhand I can think of a dozen more reasons. Lets not reverse sensible progress in the name of profits and tax revenue.