The other problem is that building new housing makes the problem worse if you eliminate older housing which may be perfectly functional, but it's not profitable (like cash for clunkers)
The theory behind CfC was to lower total emissions and raise mean MPG range of vehicles, while also bailing out the Auto Industry by clearing their excess inventory.
That's not a terrible plan on its face if you're hopelessly wedded to car culture... :agony-shivering:
With housing, even old units functional still have the problem of being land hogs. Replacing ranch homes with new dense vertical and MUDs consolidates people over territory and that's generally good... except when you're wedded to car culture and everyone still needs parking space. :agony-deep:
Everything really does just come back to cars being terrible.
YIMBYs live in attached units (either apartments or condos) and want to increase density at all (usually human) costs and do whatever possible to knock down any building that’s not a mixed use highrise.
Firstly, plenty of YIMBYs live in ranch style homes in the suburbs. They complain about zoning and blame car culture on unions and donate monthly to Andrew Yang. But they scream like stuck pigs when anything threatens their property values or encroaches on their school districts.
Secondly, YIMBYs don't demolish shit. That's developers. And developers don't care if you're knocking down a single family unit to build five townhomes or an old eight unit apartment to build a big new McMansion so long as they're always building.
they treat the real estate market the way libertarians treat the economy as a whole.
Right. The term is camouflage. It doesn't get you dense urban housing with good public transit. It just gets privatization and subsidy for whomever is paying the local YIMBY Org's media budget.
No they aren't. YIMBYs become NIMBYs overnight as soon as you get anywhere near their property.
Doesn't that mean they were never YIMBYs then? That's just "Yes in Someone Else's Backyard."
The bitter irony of neoliberalism.
The other problem is that building new housing makes the problem worse if you eliminate older housing which may be perfectly functional, but it's not profitable (like cash for clunkers)
The theory behind CfC was to lower total emissions and raise mean MPG range of vehicles, while also bailing out the Auto Industry by clearing their excess inventory.
That's not a terrible plan on its face if you're hopelessly wedded to car culture... :agony-shivering:
With housing, even old units functional still have the problem of being land hogs. Replacing ranch homes with new dense vertical and MUDs consolidates people over territory and that's generally good... except when you're wedded to car culture and everyone still needs parking space. :agony-deep:
Everything really does just come back to cars being terrible.
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Firstly, plenty of YIMBYs live in ranch style homes in the suburbs. They complain about zoning and blame car culture on unions and donate monthly to Andrew Yang. But they scream like stuck pigs when anything threatens their property values or encroaches on their school districts.
Secondly, YIMBYs don't demolish shit. That's developers. And developers don't care if you're knocking down a single family unit to build five townhomes or an old eight unit apartment to build a big new McMansion so long as they're always building.
Right. The term is camouflage. It doesn't get you dense urban housing with good public transit. It just gets privatization and subsidy for whomever is paying the local YIMBY Org's media budget.
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