California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build

Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by earhart on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:35PM (#22331533)

FWIW - I’d love to see increased density where I live in Seattle, but the people who support it seem to ignore all the other stuff that has to go with it - e.g. more school capacity, better transit, requiring parking in new developments because people still have cars and the on-street parking can’t scale to meet new developments...

Bringing that stuff up gets me called a NIMBY; it sometimes seems like anything that might make it more expensive for developers to build more housing is a crime against humanity. :-/

It sometimes feels like all we’re really doing is enabling developers to mine our quality of life for their own profit, without actually creating enough housing to make a dent in the problem.

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Re:California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to b... by aabhay on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:47PM (#22331625)

Yes, this is something in dire need of a solution in SF. There are not enough primary schools in the city to support even the people that currently live here (there’s a lottery system where students aren’t even guaranteed a spot in a high school).

I would love to see the city of SF get denser, but building condos isn’t the only answer.

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