The fact that wealthy homeowners band together to ban transit and high-density housing from certain neighborhoods is a key reason our large cities are now completely unaffordable. It's why California's housing crisis is now so bad people in San Francisco are squatting in boats.
No one is saying, let's ban single-family housing. All these laws say is, neighborhoods should allow some high-density housing near transit, so people can afford to actually live and work in the area. NIMBYs act like it's the end of the world if they can't control one damn block.
And yeah, as much as people like Luke want to scoff at the idea, there is *absolutely* a racial component to complaints about housing projects will kill a neighborhood's "character."
So many of America's problems stem from certain people not wanting to coexist with other people.
So many of America's problems stem from certain people not wanting to coexist with other people.
