To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning

Re:To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning by traloid on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:31AM (#28310735)

Interesting. So 50 years ago, with labour efficiency and productivity being a small fraction of what it is today, single-family houses were easily built and bought by people.

Today its somehow an unreachable goal that people cant obtain. Why? I dont want to live in a pod or communal flat with 20 people. How are people not revolting over the direction western economies are taking?

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Re:To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning by PeterisP on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:42PM (#28321975)

You can easily get an affordable single-family house - it's just going to be a long, long way from your job because you'll have to drive through all the land taken up by less affordable single-family houses who want to pay extra to live closer to where everybody else is.

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Re:To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning by jgwil2 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:39AM (#28314782)

Because the population has increased over the course of fifty years. There's a limit to how many single-family houses you can build that are reasonably close to jobs.

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Re:To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning by swiley on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:02AM (#28313196)

California has a long way to go before it starts to become attractive.

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