[HN Gopher] When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
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       When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-03-08 03:31 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | gedy wrote:
       | Cheap housing/rent seems to fix so many other issues that I
       | wonder if we'd be better off as a society first focusing on that
       | vs introducing new approaches like UBI. I appreciate New York was
       | not always a nice/safe place to live, but the cheaper housing
       | during those times certainly gave fruit to a lot of benefits to
       | the arts, culture, etc too.
        
         | clairity wrote:
         | while i'm quite skeptical of ubi, i'm down for radically
         | redesigning the incentives implicit in all aspects of society
         | around housing (like zoning, regulatory oversight, and building
         | codes) so that rising values get inventively plowed back into
         | the community, rather than accumulating unhelpfully in often-
         | far-away wealth hoarding games.
         | 
         | for instance, a more progressive tax system, perhaps leveraging
         | land value taxes and wealth taxes, to make it unprofitable to
         | stagnate land use in the middle of cities. also, let's properly
         | price parking and roads to internalize all the negative
         | externalities they exact on society (e.g., pollution, and
         | distortions against human scale development), to tilt the land
         | use balance back toward humans over lightly-used machines.
        
       | lesstenseflow wrote:
       | It's funny to think that the concept of a female only hotel like
       | the Barbizon was a workable idea in 1900, but would be impossible
       | to establish today in our 2020s political climate, certainly not
       | in NYC. It would be possible to set up a coed hotel for "female
       | identifying" people of all sexes, but female only would be a
       | nonstarter. One step forward two steps back it seems.
        
       | sombragris wrote:
       | Paywalled. Suppposedly ran out of free articles. Please don't
       | link to sites that force this crap.
        
         | boogies wrote:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
         | 
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