• dubyakay
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    23 days ago

    Lemmy can’t find affordable real estate, not houses. Big difference.

    Single family zoning and urban sprawl is terrible.

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      23 days ago

      Single family zoning is terrible unless you’re wealthy enough to enjoy it.

      When done right, incredibly inequitably pleasant and convenient. Garages and driveways and street parking, freestanding walls, personal gardens and patios… some green spaces might even be left nearby for the fauna and flora…

      (Obviously a McMansion in a desert with zero walkability doesn’t fit the bill.)

      Do note this is a description of an inequitably pleasant luxury that’s obviously overall bad for humanity 🌈

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        23 days ago

        The thing is Lemmy is a pretty terrible cross section of society. Theres plenty of people in inner city apartments with solid careers who are fed the fuck up with living in an overpriced shoebox when they could buy a house in the suburbs, but those are overpriced too.

        The more affordable all types of housing get the more everyone benefits, more supply is the only way to counter more demand.

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      23 days ago

      No, people can’t afford houses, of just about any kind. Even shit tiny high density apartments are starting to become unaffordable even when you’re looking outside of downtown centers

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        23 days ago

        It’s because all north American devs make are “luxury condo towers”, cramming as many units into a 20+ story, slap on a concierge, pool, gym and party room somewhere and then call it a job well done.

        And you can thanks NIMBYs and zoning for this. There’s clearly a missing middle.

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        21 days ago

        There were more single-family homes bought by private purchasers in 2023 than in any previous year in record. People can and are affording houses, Lenny is just locked into its talking points.