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Re:Home Price to Income Ratio by tomkat0789 on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:23PM (#28597713)
Me too! I think the average American thinks "increase supply" means skyscrapers with apartments, rather than lower impact multiunit, mixed-use apartments/street shops that are more common in Europe.

Another issue with increasing supply/density: where is every household going to park its 2-3 cars?!

(Disclaimer: I've been watching tons of City Beautiful and Not Just Bikes on Youtube)

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Re:Home Price to Income Ratio by corpdronejuly on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:48PM (#28598014)
The issue is that those kinds of mixed use neighborhoods are literally illegal in most American Suburbs. Strong Towns goes over this, but our zoning laws are basically designed to create and exacerbate this problem long run
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Re:Home Price to Income Ratio by bernawil on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:41AM (#28602097)
people are arguing here that housing in Europe is even less affordable than in the US, so what is even the point?
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Re:Home Price to Income Ratio by scrollaway on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:55AM (#28603189)
The demand in Europe is just as high as in the US. Density is not the same however... Think about how large European cities would have to be in order to match US population at US density.

We don't have as many skyscrapers here.

Regardless there are plenty of reasons not to want car-centric suburbian neighbourhoods. Unwalkable, outrageously expensive to maintain, encourages car ownership and usage (yay more debt and running costs), etc.

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