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Re:High property taxes are good by theluketaylor on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:31PM (#32169250)
One of the many reasons exclusionary zoning needs to die in a fire. The urban housing crisis has been allowed to grow for decades, so we're long past any single solution, but I'm increasingly convinced no combination of fixes can succeed while exclusionary zoning still exists.

Japanese-style inclusionary zoning splits the difference nicely between making sure people don't live next to loud, potentially dangerous industry and allowing lots of mixed-use, human scale developments of varying density.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

Re:High property taxes are good by staringback on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:34PM (#32171903)
US home ownership: 65%

Japan home ownership: 61%

Yet there is such a housing crisis in the states due to the "zoning" bogeyman

Re:High property taxes are good by dpe82 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:34PM (#32172682)
I'm not sure what your point is? Does development policy not affect the supply and location of housing?