Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments

Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by mahyarm on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:43PM (#11067620)

I'm starting to notice there is a general pattern of anti-development NIMBY almost everywhere. It's either an instinct, not liking change in general, not liking newcomers, irritation at construction or national incentives that cause it. It's probably a combination of all of them.

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by ghaff on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:51PM (#11067685)

And I suspect most of this isn't anything new. What is at least somewhat different is that, in general, a Robert Moses [1] can't come into a city and remake it to his vision while largely ignoring those who think differently. This change is not entirely a bad thing. On the other hand, it often makes things like large-scale transportation projects much more difficult to accomplish than in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by sliverstorm on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:50PM (#11067674)

There's degrees of NIMBY-ism. "Don't bulldoze my house bro!" might be seen as NIMBY-ism, but IMO is a lot easier to sympathize with than total & complete anti-development.

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Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments by lips on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:56PM (#11067726)

Development in my area is poorly constructed, ugly, still expensive, and created by people who have no interest in the neighborhood. They make it hard to love.

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