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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Harvard Business Review takes an evidence-filled bat to nearly every single YIMBY talking point. Just a complete takedown:

https://hbr.org/2024/09/the-market-alone-cant-fix-the-u-s-housing-crisis[/quote]

Did you miss the part of the article where they propose public housing projects and where restrictive covenants are criticized?

“But other restrictions are still commonly used and enforced, including ones that prevent the construction of multifamily housing, establish minimum lot sizes, and even restrict non-traditional households from living in a neighborhood. Often enforced by private homeowners’ associations, these covenants function as a form of private zoning, but enacted without public input.”[/quote]

Well that is not consistent with YIMBYS property rights obsession. If people willing enter into an agreement about their own property with a covenant there is nothing wrong with that, assuming YIMBYS are logically consistent. They are not though, many of them want to ban covenants too, because they want to force their lifestyle on everyone else. [b]They do no truly respect property right[/b]s or rule of law, they only use this argument to further their agenda when it benefits them. [/quote]

If you respect property rights, then you should support the proposed zoning changes, which will increase property rights.[/quote]

So someone should be able to pave over their entire property and cause flooding to my land because of "property rights". People should be able to build a power plant anywhere they want because of property rights? This is very juvenile libertarian logic that it not conducive to protecting the health and welfare of residents. I do not support the zoning changes because they impose a significant cost on voters and most importantly are not supported the residents living in single family neighborhoods. Property rights are not unlimited and people do not get to do whatever they want without considering the impact on everyone else in the community. Individual decisions about the use of property impose costs on everyone else in the community through local government spending and property taxes. Unless this property owner is 100% self sufficient, never uses public roads, firefighters, schools, emergency services and  never leaves their house, and does not use the electricity grid,  their property use impacts other people and requires government services. [/quote]

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