Re:Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers
by zkms on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:29PM
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> Hundreds of thousands would live on a street that now houses a thousand people.
> I don’t think that density is coming back or desirable.
I think there's plenty of examples of dense cities (certainly far denser than most US cities) that aren't full of death-trap tenements and it's borderline intellectually dishonest to equate density with that.
In fact, letting NIMBYs have free rein to obstruct/delay/interdict housing construction is far more likely to cause overcrowded/unsafe living situations (which include homelessness) than the other way around.
> I don’t think that density is coming back or desirable.
I think there's plenty of examples of dense cities (certainly far denser than most US cities) that aren't full of death-trap tenements and it's borderline intellectually dishonest to equate density with that.
In fact, letting NIMBYs have free rein to obstruct/delay/interdict housing construction is far more likely to cause overcrowded/unsafe living situations (which include homelessness) than the other way around.