Re:The High Cost of Expensive Housing (and How Auckland Fixe...
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:33AM
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> What is the justification for different families having to pay such different amounts for the same infrastructure just because some live in denser housing?
Because this premise is wrong:
> If the tax is just based on the land value won't each of the 100 lots pay the same amount? To pay for the need for 10x as much infrastructure the tax rate will have to up by a factor of 10. The result is that families in the single family homes will be paying per family about 100x as much for the same infrastructure services as those who live in the apartments.
Energy = force * distance = mass * acceleration * distance. People in single family homes on their own quarter acre lot will use a lot more infrastructure than people in apartments, simply because less dense living requires mass to travel much farther.
Namely, single family lots make public transit not viable (simply because individual cars are more convenient and so people will prefer and politically support car infrastructure). And the knock on effects leader to ever more consumption of infrastructure, such as more roads, more parking lots, bigger lots (since driving makes traveling those distances easier), which then leads back to more infrastructure to push more mass more distance.
Because this premise is wrong:
> If the tax is just based on the land value won't each of the 100 lots pay the same amount? To pay for the need for 10x as much infrastructure the tax rate will have to up by a factor of 10. The result is that families in the single family homes will be paying per family about 100x as much for the same infrastructure services as those who live in the apartments.
Energy = force * distance = mass * acceleration * distance. People in single family homes on their own quarter acre lot will use a lot more infrastructure than people in apartments, simply because less dense living requires mass to travel much farther.
Namely, single family lots make public transit not viable (simply because individual cars are more convenient and so people will prefer and politically support car infrastructure). And the knock on effects leader to ever more consumption of infrastructure, such as more roads, more parking lots, bigger lots (since driving makes traveling those distances easier), which then leads back to more infrastructure to push more mass more distance.