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Re:Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the mo... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:50AM (#14031557)
Two factors perpetuate this:

1) Americans have a self-hating working class.

2) American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in general.

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Re:Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the mo... by arcanus on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:24AM (#14032888)
> American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in general

That's over-generalizing. Many locations in the USA have sensible zoning. SF is the exception.

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Re:Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the mo... by lovich on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:31PM (#14035823)
Boston's another hub and large parts of the metro area dont allow increasing housing density easily
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Re:Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the mo... by thatwebdude on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:07AM (#14060300)
Agreed, in the Midwest they're building new 2,500 sqft. homes every 6 months around here. (Quite poorly BTW)

Every 5 or 10 years an entirely new development emerges.

Any hindrance occurs to municipalities without room to grow. And for city zoning, it doesn't appear they have an issue "building up" instead of out.

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Re:Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the mo... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:35PM (#14037436)
I live in Somerville, MA, and we had an article showing that only 22 buildings in our whole city are legal to build again under current zoning codes[1].

[1] -- http://www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11948630/somerville-zoning-ille...

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