[HN Gopher] The Most Important Housing Reform in America: Removi...
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       The Most Important Housing Reform in America: Removing "Community"
       Input
        
       Author : jseliger
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-12-24 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | mikem170 wrote:
       | From the article:
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       | > the policy that Charlotte approved last week: abolishing
       | single-family zoning. Charlotte's Comprehensive Plan prescribes
       | legalizing duplexes and triplexes citywide, giving more people
       | more access to more types of housing in more neighborhoods, and
       | undoing a policy originally intended to circumvent the Supreme
       | Court's ban on racial zoning by keeping renters out.
       | 
       | There are a number of places reversing the dominance of single-
       | family single-use zoning for residential real-estate that has
       | existed for the past several decades.
       | 
       | I think this is a good thing. Other countries have been doing
       | this all along and have much more people-friendly neighborhoods,
       | also allowing low-impact businesses to be mixed in with
       | residential, still having rules for height, setbacks, etc.
       | 
       | Single-family single-use zoning ended up being convenient for
       | large developers, being the cheapest way for them to turn land on
       | the outskirts of town into profits, with little regard for the
       | people who would live in these corporate-constructed
       | neighborhoods and how far away from everything else in the rest
       | of their lives they would be - the cost of car dependence, the
       | commuting time, the lack of nearby places to socialize, kids far
       | away from their friends, etc. Many of these places are going to
       | have trouble paying their infrastructure replacement costs in the
       | coming decades, there's not enough taxpayers per mile.
        
       | notwokeno wrote:
       | Yes. Import millions of people against the will of the native
       | population without housing. The solution to the problems this
       | causes is to further remove any say people have with what's
       | happening to their country and local communities.
       | 
       | You think right wing extremism comes from online forums? No it
       | comes from watching this happen.
        
         | cuteboy19 wrote:
         | Do you ask for your neighbors vote on what to eat for
         | breakfast? Maybe go down to the city council for deciding what
         | your bedtime should be?
         | 
         | If not, why should you need to ask these busybodies and
         | bureaucrats dictate what you do with your own land?
        
           | nullish_signal wrote:
           | Because unlike Breakfast and Bedtime, this decision results
           | in a higher density of People.
           | 
           | People have the right to decide who to spend time near, and
           | if that can't be exercised by certain groups, then
           | individuals in those groups merely leave and will be called
           | bigots for "white flight".
        
       | nullish_signal wrote:
       | >It's important to Remove "Community" Input
       | 
       | >Because it's important to have more "Community" members
       | everywhere
       | 
       | I don't understand
        
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