Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage

Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by bluGill on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @06:38PM (#39698445)

I keep reading that claim. Then I look at old streetcar suburbs which have successfully a repaired thier roads over decades (including removing the old tracks). They have also added water, sewer, electric, phone, catv since being built.

which is to say it doesn't pass the smell test. I don't know where the studies go wrong but something isn'c adding up.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by shortsunblack on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:21PM (#39698757)

Old streetcar suburbs are much denser than typical American suburb today due to increased setbacks, lot coverage rates and other factors. But yes, even streetcar suburbs get subsidized back then. The subsidy is just more productive in it opening economic mobility with cheap, carbon neutral transport, depending on your views on rail transport.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by bluGill on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:50PM (#39699837)

lots are the same size today, or maybe slightly smaller. back then everone had a garden which took up space.

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