I'm not sure what the point of this is lol if housing is affordable or not isn't determined primarily by the way you make the building or whatever. Unless you make all the apartments massive or something but that isn't usually the case with these projects. It's kinda barking at the wrong tree.
They don’t tho. They want to live in urban areas and feel apart of urban culture without dealing with the long standing urban inhabitants. Look at what’s happening in Detroit Harlem and Pittsburg for examples.
They do, in my experience. In SF in particular they've been a significant agitating force behind low-income housing construction. There was one project in particular near the Embarcadero that I remember them showing up for.
Leftists and YIMBYs just have these unrealistic caricatures of each other in their heads.
Build new apartment, only build in nice area, spend 5% more in furnishings, add 10% more space to floor plan, call it luxury apartments. Increase rent by 100%.
See that's the thing. It's mostly the area. If you go to some very expensive city centers you'll find ridiculously expensive apartments which are falling apart and also tiny. It doesn't have much to do with the building, affordable apartments is not some specific type of apartment you can build, unless, idk, you intentionally sabotage them to make them gross. Any competently made new apartment building in a nice area is gonna have expensive apartments, it's a housing market issue. More apartments being built regardless of how affordable they individually are may slightly alleviate the issue, but that depends on many things.
I'm not sure what the point of this is lol if housing is affordable or not isn't determined primarily by the way you make the building or whatever. Unless you make all the apartments massive or something but that isn't usually the case with these projects. It's kinda barking at the wrong tree.
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yimbys are the opposite of nimbys. yes in my backyard. they should be for poor people moving in next door
They don’t tho. They want to live in urban areas and feel apart of urban culture without dealing with the long standing urban inhabitants. Look at what’s happening in Detroit Harlem and Pittsburg for examples.
They do, in my experience. In SF in particular they've been a significant agitating force behind low-income housing construction. There was one project in particular near the Embarcadero that I remember them showing up for.
Leftists and YIMBYs just have these unrealistic caricatures of each other in their heads.
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The meme is that YIMBYs want to build more housing, but primarily luxury and expensive housing that does little to improve affordability.
Build new apartment, only build in nice area, spend 5% more in furnishings, add 10% more space to floor plan, call it luxury apartments. Increase rent by 100%.
See that's the thing. It's mostly the area. If you go to some very expensive city centers you'll find ridiculously expensive apartments which are falling apart and also tiny. It doesn't have much to do with the building, affordable apartments is not some specific type of apartment you can build, unless, idk, you intentionally sabotage them to make them gross. Any competently made new apartment building in a nice area is gonna have expensive apartments, it's a housing market issue. More apartments being built regardless of how affordable they individually are may slightly alleviate the issue, but that depends on many things.