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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with PP, I would rather have 0 new multi family buildings. [/quote]

Personally, I agree.  However, there is a large contingent in the County that is concerned about the lack of affordable housing.  As long as the supply of housing is constrained, the affordability problem will remain.

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Are they, though?  I think that it’s pretty well established that this type of upzoning has way more downside than upside.  It’s silly trickle down economics and it doesn’t work here any more than it works in other parts of the economy.

The YIMBYs are trying to sell some 15 minute city BS by couching it as affordable housing, but it’s really just enabling white nerds to ride their bikes around and pretend that they live in Amsterdam or something.

I mean, of course some fools will buy into it thinking that it creates affordable housing, and those are the idiots you’ll hear parroting the IT’S ECOMONCS 101!!1!1!1 line, like they just walked out of a Joe Rogan University freshman course.

https://www.planningreport.com/2025/07/25/storper-et-al-yes-yimby-ism-profoundly-conservative-and-wrong-housing-policy

https://www.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27643-what-a-critique-of-yimby-economics-gets-right-and-wrong?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://legal-planet.org/2023/04/11/does-upzoning-reduce-housing-prices/

https://www.villagepreservation.org/2021/10/24/facts-and-data-continue-to-contradict-upzoning-argument/[/quote]

No, we just think mandating single family zoning everywhere hurts most people and affordability. And there is evidence that it does.

It literally is nothing like trickle down economics lol.

When will you people get over your fear of a couple apartment buildings? Jesus, get a life.[/quote]

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