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Housing density is better for the environment. Better for preserving green spaces. Better for young people and job-seekers. Better for startups, small businesses and non-profits. Better for economic growth. The people don't choose sprawl, gatekeepers and rent-seekers do.https://twitter.com/arram/status/1306044610746052608 …
Yearly building permits:
SF Bay: 5k
NYC: 20k
LA: 24K
Tokyo: 142k 
Tokyo housing prices have *decreased* since 2006.
The solution? Strip local control. “If you want to build a mock-Gothic castle faced in pink seashells, that is your business."
https://bit.ly/3bZG2Aa
Tokyo housing prices have *decreased* since 2006.
The solution? Strip local control. “If you want to build a mock-Gothic castle faced in pink seashells, that is your business."
https://bit.ly/3bZG2Aa
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Also file this under seemingly common yet uncommon sense along with nuclear energy.
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Counterpoint: I've known people who moved out into the country to get space from people - only for a city to spring up around them. Low population density areas can be better for families, have lower pollution, etc. Not saying suburbs are good, but sometimes ppl just want to..
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..preserve a quality of life.
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Just join the hive, bugs
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Density is good for almost anything. Then people have kids and want peace, a garden, a dog, and a pool.
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Density is a technology competing with other technologies to achieve the same goals. We can trade-off housing unit sqft for shorter distances to jobs, restaurants, nightlife, or larger sqft paired with remote work, 2-day shipping, non-ICE transport (electrified rail/cars), etc.
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I don't think one is inherently better than the other...People will always have to pick their poison
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