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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by novok on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:19PM (#20812821)
Mopeds are illegal to build although (SRO) and the minimum legal house is a civic, and nobody protests the building of local large single family jet mansions. And you haven't seen the used market price of a porsche in a market with a lot of them ;) Berlin 15 years ago is one example of that.

And what people call 'luxury jet housing' is usually really sad 600sqft housing that would be called honda fit housing elsewhere.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by slg on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:48PM (#20813155)
The analogy is getting strained at this point. Not being able to build new SRO housing doesn't mean we have to knockdown all the SROs and replace them with high rise luxury condos. That might even increase housing density if a 5 story building is replaced by a 15 story building. That doesn't mean the people displaced by the new construction will benefit in any way.
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