If you support Vienna housing model but aren't focused on abolishing single family zoning completely, you aren't actually following Viennas housing model, as Vienna has no single family zoning.

are there any YIMBY type meetups in the Seattle area? or is this the Seattle Freeze I been hearing about

The fundamental mindset that makes someone a YIMBY is "I do not own my neighborhood and I do not get a say in what my neighbor does with their land unless I can prove objectively that there is a real and significant health and safety risk from that land use" Anything else is NIMBYism in disguise.

US housing crisis tl;dr local control makes development rights scarce → only large developers survive → public associates building only with large developers → public hates developers -> housing shortage

henlo friends I am no longer in Houston. I am in Seattle now. pros: bike path :] cons: zoning :[

"The city of <blank> has planned to construct 50000 housing units by..." PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES PLANNED ECONOMIES CAUSE SHORTAGES

absolutely bars

Solving the housing crisis means challenging American suburban single family home culture

real estate speculators HATE this one easy trick to solve the housing crisis

cheap stuff that's illegal to build in most cities - micro-condos/apartments - single staircase apartments/condos - tiny house villages - cottege courts - mobile homes stuff that is legal to build in most cities: - bigass luxury condos - bigass single family homes

Things that make cheaper housing - smaller square footage - More efficient land use (no parking, no setbacks, ect) A lot of people do not like these things, so they want them to be illegal to make. As a result, we now have a market where cheaper housing products are illegal to make.

"no you cannot build the high property tax revenue buildings that are great for funding infastructure, we do not have the infastructure needed for those high property tax revenue buildings that are great for funding infastructure!"

My roman empire is that the biggest barrier to housing today is the public understanding of what a speculator is and the role they play in land use and real estate. the general public rarely understands what a speculator is, much less understands how our laws around land use are made for them.

It is one of the most pro-LGBT things you could do is to acknowledge that trans people are capable of being awful and that it has nothing to do with them being trans, and everything to do with the fact that this person choose to be awful on their own accord.

SCOTUS to everyone.

My stance on rent control: It's not inherently bad, it's just not helpful in the medium and long term and the people that usually are big on rent control are also not big on any of the actual solutions to the housing crisis. It usually ends up kicking the can down the road

Left NIMBYs: YIMBYs ignore the class struggle in housing blue collar guy: hey I just bought land, I can't live on it unless i build a 2000sqft single family home, also I need to pay 50 grand in development fees on top of it Left NIMBYs: ??? I dont care? This isn't about your personal anecdotes.

Blackstone themselves literally said in their SEC filings (which they will go to jail if they lie in) that the reason they are buying homes is because of a shortage caused by local land use regulations. Clear as day.

"I do not want the industry to make cheaper housing products for people because they might make a profit off of it." This is the anti-abundance crowd in a nutshell

"it's just more deregulation" the regulations: - single family zoning - single use zoning - lot size minimums - parking mandates - height limits - sqft minimums - floor area ratio - setback mandates - lot coverage maximums - occupancy limits - high permit/development fees - manufactured home bans

thank you. Hitler was anti smoking so obviously cigarettes must be good for you

You know how whenever a plane crashes, it always makes the news because its so rare? But car crashes rarely make the news because they happen so often? The fact that "new housing is being built" always makes the news really affirms that we're in a building crisis.

housing cannot be both affordable and a premier speculative asset

At this point, I think I would be okay with 2 options. Individual land use control, where there's no zoning or centralized land use planning with the exception of essential, objective things (sewage, utilities, drainage, ect)

I don't think people understand how great fine grain urbanism is. Small lots are so much better. Every lot in every city should be as small as it can be

I think one thing that people don't understand is that local land use politics and federal/state politics are really two separate ball games. You can be a raging, pro-mamdani leftist that wants all the environmental regulations on corporations and also want land deregulated at a local level.

Gavin Newsom is dropping some "im gonna run for president" type shitposting

Yeah we don't believe in zoning DEREGULATION like those NEOLIBERALs Instead we do what actually WORKS like *checks notes* "It rezoned underused industrial or commercial land near transit hubs into high-density residential neighborhoods" hmmmm 🧐

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Absolute revolt of the left NIMBYs in California right now.

Prediction: Climate change will make non-incremental development impossible in affected areas. If you want a permanent place to live, you'll have to buy your land in cash, build a little shack, work your way up. You won't just get a loan for a finished development because it won't be insurable.

As someone living in rural Texas, I have thoughts. A sizable majority of people living rural are your "10 acres and no neighbors" type. There is no urbanism for these people. Cars are going to stay, EVs are the best you'll get. Where improvements can really be made imo is in the subdivisions.

The wealthy Kits homeowner coalition seems to have won its legal battle against the desperately needed Arbutus supportive housing project. This is what I’m talking about when I say zoning should be abolished. It’s weaponized by the rich to exclude the poor. That is the MAIN use case!

This guy always hits the nail on the head. "If we deregulate zoning, how will we keep sacrifice zones away from cities?" which basically translates to "No you don't understand, we need zoning laws so our polluting industry can destroy nature OUTSIDE of the city, not IN the city"

absolutely agree. State and city legislation has this tone: "I agree we're in a housing crisis, but suburbanites won't like it if you build dense mixed use housing in their quiet single family home neighborhoods" Single family home restrictions are an offensive moral plague. End them.

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When I say deregulation decommodifies housing - Here's an example of what i mean. Lets say we take 3 standard suburban lots. #1 starting from the left is a standard single family home lot. Its generic enough to be easy to sell. It's high liquidity and works as an investment product.

The driver behind the housing crisis is that we give local communities control over the land. Which is why Community Land Trusts suck. In 20 years people are going to want to upzone the land owned by the CLT and the board is going to be like "noo it'll ruin the neighborhood character".

Just remember this whenever someone says "We can't HSR because Americans just love their cars"

I actually think a really good symbol of how America can't build anymore is the fact that the USA hasn't even bothered to reclaim the title of world's tallest building. The Burj Khalifa been deadass heightmogging us for 15 years and USA is just like "but Karen says it'll ruin her neighborhood 🥺🥺"

Finally. It's absurd that we're in a housing crisis yet we illegalize one of the cheapest and most barebones form of housing

Unpopular housing opinion: YIMBYs are too focused on building housing in the core of major cities. Suburban sprawl is defined by residential single family home developments. Making dense mixed use developments that can host jobs and dense housing isn't "sprawl". It's just making the city bigger.

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Housing can't be an evergreen investment and affordable at the same time

I feel it's importiant to point out: You can densify suburban spaces without resorting to multifamily housing complexes. One easy way to do that is just making the houses smaller. Two 1000 sqft homes and a 350sqft ADU on a .25 acre lot will triple the density without attached housing.

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Community land trusts are like the Dollar Tree of housing. You see a pack of ziploc bags for 2.50 and compare it to HEBs 5.00 bags and your like "Oh wow this looks great" Then you realize it's 3 plastic bags for 2.50 when HEB sells 10 for 5.00