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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by philwelch on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:18PM (#15829931)
Well I guess we just need to figure out how to geographically distribute the world's human population once and for all and never do anything that will ever require that to change, then.
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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by lliamander on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:56AM (#15830647)
Or you could let the people who live in a given place have a vote as to whether they are OK with new housing.

And if the local residents don't want a new housing development because it negatively impacts their home value, then maybe someone will find a way to make it worth their while (i.e. real-estate developer grants current residents a stake in the returns of the new development if they stay for 5 years after the new housing is constructed).

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by philwelch on Saturday December 02, 2017 @12:44PM (#15833001)
> Or you could let the people who live in a given place have a vote as to whether they are OK with new housing.

This is the local equivalent of Trump-style “close the borders and build a wall” anti-immigration rhetoric.

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