Where did anybody say you can solve homelessness?
No, the real issue is income distribution. The push to destroy our communities in the name of affordability is just the squirrels wrestling over the last few nuts after the orchard is harvested, a red herring.
At least we can agree that a neighborhood packed with apartment complexes is not the same as a neighborhood of single family housing. One person's lively is another person's noisy.
No, if people buy into a community because it is quiet and then that community is turned from a quiet neighborhood into a very noisy one, it is functionally destroyed for the folks that chose to live there because of the quiet nature of the neighborhood. The noise created by the up-zoning destroys the quality of life for the folks who live there.
Oh fuck off with your histrionics. If you want to debate, I'm glad to but your belittling attitude sucks and quite frankly, I don't deserve it. The fact is that up-zoning does add noise and it adds traffic and congestion to neighborhoods that were never designed to handle it. If my neighbor wants to live in a two-three family unit, they can move. This boils down to greed on the part of the neighbor who wants to cash in on their lot, neighbors be damned.
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So blue states and the fleas are coming South after fucking up their own shit.
I didn't force anything on anybody. They knew what they were buying when they bought it. Now they want to change the rules to the detriment of the rest of the neighborhood so they can grab a little cash.my histrionics? that's rich. you the one making hysterical statements that central park should be razed for housing and communities are going to be destroyed, so expect some pushback. I mean those are just lunacy.
As far as your neighbour goes, why is it just them being greedy? Maybe they want to live there and get a little income too. Maybe they just want a good investment. Who gives a shit, why should you be able to tell them that land is only good for a single family home and that's it? I'm not saying they should be able to plop down a parking garage, a ten story apartment building, or put in an animal slaughterhouse or plop down a strip club, but your highly irrational statements about what can happen if they make it a 2 family is completely nonsensical and the reason this country is fubared with housing.
The fact is pure single family zoning is inefficient and subsidized by denser areas. Your lifestyle that you are forcing on others is subsidized by others. I think they should get their money back at least if you insist on making hysterical arguments.
Let's see how Minneapolis is in 5 years. According to you it will be destroyed. Want to make a wager?
How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes
Desperate to build more housing, the city just rewrote its decades-old zoning rules.
You'd like it. I'm even quieter than your current neighbors.
Upstate NY is magical. Prove me wrong.
This is why you need smart, planned density. Not like here where the little density we do have is shotgunned all over the fucking place.
You have me with golf courses, but leave my cemeteries alone. Only place I can go for a walk without a billion people around. If you can make people more afraid of something than their own mortality that also has large plots of land associated with it (forests? shoreline?), I'd be willing to negotiate.
And this is good. I think cities should plan for higher density in new areas. People would know what they are buying into.
I'd rather not be surrounded by people dumber than a box of rocks than have more money.
My box of rocks takes issue with your comment.
