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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YIMBYs seem to think everyone with a family wants to live in a high rise. It CAN work, but goes against consumer tastes. YIMBYs ignore that people like single family houses and having land.[/quote]
In actuality, the YIMBY policy goal at any moment reflects the personal desires of the median Millennial. 10 years ago the median Millennial wanted to live in NYC or SF in neighborhoods that they could not afford so they demanded more high rises to accommodate them. Now the median Millennial is in their late 30s and wants to buy a starter home in an affluent neighborhood that they cannot afford so they are demanding “missing middle”. 10 years from now, the median Millennial will want a SFH and YIMBYism will morph once again towards getting them SFHs, probably by trying to figure out how to force everyone else into all of these other housing types that they demanded that no one else wanted. [/quote]

100%!

Ah yes the “missing middle”.

An admission that these urbanists don’t want to live in a mid or high rise, so a quadplex is a step up. But when they get sick of the any shared walls and parking problems, the locust will move on to single family homes, and wonder why the fraction left command such high prices.[/quote]

?? Not clear why you think ad hominem attacks add to your credibility.

Anyway, “missing middle” described both a type of housing and a price-point affordable to the middle class. The idea is that duplexes etc would have a natural market but for zoning restrictions. Interestingly the Minneapolis example seems to indicate that the real barriers are parking requirements, not number of units. [/quote]

You brought in an extraneous and unrelated market to this and you are accusing me of ad hominem?

There are more townhomes and condos here than most of the country and they are mostly viable.

What isn’t viable is a non-metro accessible neighborhood being turned into a slum.

And it’s the entry level, starter home market, that gets hit first because the math still works out to buy a lot, put up 2 to 4 homes.

The premium to avoid that, just goes higher.[/quote]

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