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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile, there was an obit in WAPO today.  61 year old woman who had a three level home.  She lived in the home with two of her children and seven grandchildren.  That is a total of 10 people.  In addition, she rented out two rooms (no numbers given.)  So, there had to be a MINIMUM of 12 people living in her house.  In addition, she had a child care center.

This is pretty dense.  So, we build high density buildings.  Where are you going to put a family of ten?[/quote]

I think that you're confused about the difference between "density" and "crowding."

Also, is the idea that all housing is unsuitable unless it can accommodate 12 people and a child care center?[/quote]

Ahhh...the Density Bros back with their smoke and mirrors shifting the discussion from 'density' (all of the experts are pointing to density) to their new term of choice 'crowding'.

Do the Density Bros understand that with increased density comes increased crowding? The Density Bros like to envision that 'smart density' solves crowding that has roots in culture beyond economic needs.

Look at the 'state of the art' DC family short term housing. It is designed to create a crowding situation with shared dining areas and bathrooms. [/quote]

I'm not any kind of bro.

If you oppose crowding, then oppose crowding. But to complain, on the one hand, that they're only building efficiencies and 1 BR apartments for entitled millennials to live by themselves - which actually reduces crowding and infectious-disease transmission - and then on the other hand, that building more housing increases crowding and infectious-disease transmission, that's just foolish.[/quote]

You see, you inferred this because you are blind to the fact that density might not be the answer. I believe that this thread has stated time and again that there is ZERO evidence that creating density reduces crowding and infectious-disease transmission. Somebody keeps asking for any sort of evidence to that end. A 1960's study that theorized on the subject was provided. But the very article called it pseudoscience.

I think thread commenters are simply over the argument that density solves all when in fact, that is just foolish as stated most recently by Governor Cuomo.

“There is a density level in NYC that is destructive,” Gov Cuomo tweeted Sunday, after similar comments at one of his daily press briefings. He’d seen New Yorkers out in parks together, behaving as if this were a normal sunny spring weekend, and he was dismayed. Togetherness itself could now be deadly.

“It has to stop and it has to stop now,” he tweeted. “NYC must develop an immediate plan to reduce density.”[/quote]

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