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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twitter thread has great debate on this. This is what’s coming and so blah compared to past builds.
https://t.co/h7csmWmcJ7

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Did you actually read the whole thread?  The author says that zoning is the problem....[/quote]

Don’t be ridiculous. Developers would still build this cheap trash if zoning allowed them to build it elsewhere. We don’t need to encourage them to ruin all of America with this junk. They are absolutely terrible to live in. There is no soundproofing, the smell of your neighbors marijuana flows readily through the wall into other units. It should be illegal to build apartment buildings unless they are made of concrete. 
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Just reading the thread that was posted.  This is what it says as one of the causes:

"In American cities, very little land is legal to build multi-family homes on. In San Jose, 94% of residential land is single-family only. Zones where multi-family homes can be built are sparse and thus extremely competitive — only the biggest developers can compete.  Once these developers have the plot, they economize. They squeeze the building right up to the boundaries, and build on a scale that small, local developers can't afford. Then they save more money by copy-pasting the designs in every city they operate in."

"zoning laws benefit the scaled developers."

"When America restructured around the motorcar, people moved out to the suburbs and commuted in via the new highways.

"Retail was relegated to operating where people drive rather than live — again because of zoning."[/quote]
This is all facts. Suburbs are an abomination in human culture. You know when parents tell their kids it’s bad to stay in their rooms all day playing video games? Suburbs are like that but for adults. [/quote]

Then why do people keep moving to them? And why did you?[/quote]

Because that's where most of the housing in the US is?[/quote]

Oh, okay. Got it. They’re an “abomination” but contain most of the housing in the US. And people voluntarily choose to live there. Logic checks out.[/quote]

Most of the housing in the U.S. is in suburbs because for 70+ years, a long list of federal, state, and local policies has subsidized housing in the suburbs and discouraged anything else. Please learn some history.

And yes, it is logical that most people live where most of the housing is.[/quote]

That the weird urbanists think that housing exists in suburbs only because of exogenous policy decisions and not because there is demand for it shows just how disconnected from reality they are.[/quote]

That you are unaware of 70 years of history shows just how disconnected from reality you are.[/quote]

Urbanism is a basically a religion for these people. They are completely irrational and devoted to some childish belief that everyone should can live in  high density apartments complexes. The useful idiots are funded by wealthy investor groups, but foolishly believe that urbanism is a noble environmental and social justice cause. The actual effect of eliminating the suburbs will be  turn America into a permanent renter society where only the wealthy own homes. So this is a great policy if your goal is to increase wealth inequality and create a larger pool of renters to boost profits for large investment firms. Basically, the perfect policy to destroy the American Dream. It is very sad that our elected local government officials are so corrupt and willing to destroy the county for political campaign donations. [/quote]

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