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Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by brailsafe on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:41PM (#27727066)
Seems to me like in Van this is just a gradual process. Particularly in east van, I'm seeing houses be replaced or renovated to specifically accomodate at least twice the addresses and maintain the feel of the existing neighborhood; I'm living in one. I think something to consider though is that a lot of people were renting the basements anyway, and might instead be renting an intentionally constructed unit on the same property now.

I'm also of course seeing nimbys against tower development at commercial and broadway, which would have the biggest short term impact imo. They want to protect their scarcity.

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Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by eloff on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:36PM (#27731671)
> I'm also of course seeing nimbys against tower development at commercial and broadway, which would have the biggest short term impact imo. They want to protect their scarcity.

Ugh. We have to put a stop to that if we don't want to end up like San Francisco. The Tokyo model is the one to emulate.

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Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by brailsafe on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:21AM (#27734852)
Do you mean put a stop to nimbyism or put a stop to tower development?

I'm not one for completely favouring towers, but in this particular neighborhood, there's basically no new buyable housing stock. If people want to live here, they're either renting or buying one of the endlessly appreciating massive houses. That need to rent and the scarcity drives up the big house value further, and the only people who can get ahead are the ones who cam buy something for 1.7m.

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