How to make housing more affordable

Re:How to make housing more affordable by yellowapple on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:33AM (#28659791)

> and they seem driven by a assumption that inequality and greed of the wealthy is the problem rather than local government red tape and NIMBYs holding back construction.

Not only is said assumption pretty dang reasonable, but the former is outright the cause of the latter (specifically: rich landowners lobbying local and state governments to hinder development and shift tax burdens onto literally anything other than the land value they're hoarding).

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Re:How to make housing more affordable by civilized on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:27AM (#28660338)

There are NIMBYs elsewhere in this comment tree telling me that evil rich developers lobby to have zoning relaxed so they can destroy the city with their horrible high-rises. So which is it? Which class of evil rich person controls everything?

Or is it possible that the YIMBY progressives who actually watch this issue in their local communities are right, and the biggest problem is NIMBYs vetoing everything to protect their "neighborhood character" and "the environment"?

NIMBYs hold a lot of power in local governments. They may be almost the only ones to turn out in many local elections and referendums.

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