Re:Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence
by mwfunk on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:18PM
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That's surely one aspect in this case, as accommodating traffic is an important part of city planning. However, there's way more resistance to building high-density housing in San Francisco, which has an even worse housing crisis than the South Bay but all of the public transit infrastructure required for a car-free life. NIMBYism and dogmatic recreational activists can be powerful forces everywhere. :(
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Re:Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence
by ceras on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:45PM
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There are even high levels of NIMBYism in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods like the East Village.
My understanding of the problem is some people really dislike change, and those same people disproportionately vote in local elections and attend city planning meetings. Because planning decisions are hyper-local in America, there's no "regional growth" advocate at these meetings, and nobody is going to attend planning meetings to fight for some developer to build their high-rise, so the opposition wins.