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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lot's of NIMBY Karens in this thread.

This stuff is gonna change, people. Duplexes aren't scary, Karens. Get over it.[/quote]

Duplexes aren’t commercially viable in most places (and especially the places where YIMBYs most want them built) according to the planning board’s own study. Yet they keep throwing duplexes out as a solution. It makes you wonder if anyone actually wants to solve the housing crisis or just keep talking about it. [/quote]

That's not for the government to decide. That's for the market to decide. SFHs get so much subsidy from the town (at the expense of renters and apartments). End that, and see what is "commercially viable".[/quote]

The government didn’t decide anything. Planning did financial analysis in consultation with industry and reached the conclusions that it did. It’s usually good to have an idea of what your proposal will do before you invest in executing it.

Duplexes are single family homes (attached) so ending subsidies for single family homes (which are so entrenched in the U.S. economy that it’s not a realistic suggestion) would make duplexes less viable, not more viable. [/quote]

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