When it comes to addressing the housing crisis, few people think about zoning. The correlation isn’t easily apparent, despite this being the most powerful tool cities have.
More than one word: zoning was used as a weapon of class warfare a long time ago and needs updating.
Also: cheap clickbait title to a news page littered with notification/subscription spam. Archive.is is needed.
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Only in the deep recesses of the minds of people who will only ever see themselves as victims.
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I’d be curious to hear why restrictive zoning limiting access to a majority of our largest cities is not considered weaponizing. Do you really think this isn’t a problem anymore?
Helen Lui has been hitting it out of the park with her recent articles. She is a good one to follow on Twitter for this type of stuff, too.
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I think it’s easy to forget communities like this one, twitter, or even city-related subreddits are still very, very small fractions of the general population. People I talk to outside these bubbles are shocked to learn it’s practically illegal to build an apartment in 80% of the land in Vancouver and Toronto, or the further implications on affordability.