The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by closeparen on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:03AM (#15830465)

There are plenty of industrial uses that it's perfectly sane to segregate from residential neighborhoods.

I might agree that zoning should be all-or-nothing with respect to residential uses, and that there should not be such a thing as a "luxury residential only" (i.e. single family home only) zone.

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by dionidium on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:27AM (#15830748)

Interestingly, this is what NIMBY used to mean (i.e. we all agree there should be industry/prisons/landfills/etc, just please not near me).

But this is something totally different.

This is just urban incumbents opposing further urban developments in their neighborhoods on the grounds that they’ve got theirs and there’s no upside to making it any easier for other people to move there, too.

This isn’t about keeping the oil refinery out. This is about keeping other people out.

That’s a fundamentally different thing. NIMBY isn’t even the right word for it.

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by nasredin on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:21PM (#15833499)

>That’s a fundamentally different thing. NIMBY isn’t even the right word for it.

"Fuck you, I (literally) got mine"?

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