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 LunaSea on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:33PM (#39698856)

You described hell.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by mlsu on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @08:18PM (#39699184)

If Tokyo is hell why did so many people choose to move there?

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by decafninja on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:38PM (#39699755)

You cannot replicate the Tokyo (or Seoul, or Taipei, or Singapore, or Hong Kong) model in the US without making certain societal choices that are either impossible or unpalatable here. We will never have anything remotely as nice as the Tokyo transit system for that reason.

I love taking the Tokyo subways whenever I visit. I make it a point to avoid the NYC subway if at all possible.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by hparadiz on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:15PM (#39700258)

People get so mad but this is the 100% truth.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by decafninja on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:20PM (#39700288)

And by “impossible or unpalatable choices”, I’m not referring anything to do with cars.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by LunaSea on Thursday March 14, 2024 @02:18AM (#39701030)

Because that's where work is?

It's always the same answer.

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