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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yea but where? There’s a push for it in my state. Drove past a new area that will be a neighborhood of cookie cutter SFH, probably with driveways too short to contain full size vehicles. And they’ll cost more than half a million so I’m not sure how that’s affordable. Anyway. It’s being built on the flood plain. 8/10 flood factor.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We really need more high density housing closer to urban centers, but Americans seem to be allergic to it. Everyone wants their single family house. Also too, without subsidies they're is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock, they all shoot for "luxury" housing because it's the most profitable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If only we made a school for teaching people how to do the things we need most. It could be run by the government as a nonprofit. We could incorporate medical and all the other industries we are getting gouged by.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    without subsidies they’re is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock

    So cap rent. If a developer wants to build, they need to build what people actually need. You don't need to hand them boatloads of money to make affordable housing more profitable than non-affordable housing, just ban the unaffordable housing nobody needs.

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