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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]London School of Economics study: "Policies such as blanket upzoning, which will principally unleash market forces that serve high income earners, are therefore likely to reinforce the effects of income inequality rather than tempering them.”

YIMBYs want nothing less than blanket upzoning.

http://econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg1914.pdf

We would be much better off upzoning the suburbs than upzoning DC itself. It's a much more viable goal.

https://shelterforce.org/2020/06/19/more-housing-could-increase-affordability-but-only-if-you-build-it-in-the-right-places-urban_housing/[/quote]

"For the past couple of years, there have been a growing number of voices saying that to address the housing affordability problem, what we need to do is build more housing— not necessarily [b]more affordable housing,[/b] but more housing, period."

Nice try. Another nice try would be to try to conceal the cold sweat on your brow now that you've tipped your hand and revealed the fact that you are desperately trying to give any reason not to bust up your precious SFH zoning but have inadvertently given away the game.

Yep, more housing isn't the solution. Affordable housing is. What we need to do is wrest the inefficient SFH land from the grasp of the 1% and turn it into public, affordable housing.

Thanks for giving us evidence that your wasteful, bourgeoise land hoarding can't simply be solved by upzoning. Now we know we need to take it by force from the parasites and give it to the truly deserving.    [/quote]

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