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Are there any YIMBYs here? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m a YIMBY. I think we need to build a shit load of apartments. I don’t care whether it’s state-owned or private. If we wanted to build a shit ton of public housing, we’d need to implement YIMBY policies anyway.

I don't really know if Marxism is relevant here, but I see bourgeois NIMBY homeowners trying to keep property values high at the expense of everyone else as a common enemy everyone needs to fight against.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bulldoze the suburbs and replace them with high rise apartments and mixed use development. Give me some of those Chinese style mega apartment developments.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

my contentious opinion is that suburbs should be 'villagized', pick a section with a school and other infrastructure to serve as a core and then bulldoze->redevelop a surrounding hinterland, then run a trolley or train out from the city core

its too wasteful too actually move them all & abandon all the infrastructure, plus a lot of possible terrorists could be pacified by continuing to indulge their separateness from the city core

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That separateness should not be indulged, suburbanites need to be urbanized by force. Do the 15 minute cities conspiracy but only to owners of SUVs and trucks with empty beds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

rhetorically i agree but in material terms suburbs have a lot in place that could be turned over to communities that support and supply urban areas, just reverse the flows of resources & power. we wouldn't need all the people that'd work on new farms, upkeep renewable energy fields, recycle suburban waste to commute from the glorious new commie-blocs when they could be put up in surpluses of housing we'd only need to not tear down (well, maybe modify into more efficient multifamily buildings, but it'll still be cheaper than brand-new)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of suburbs are built on what used to be farmland and could be turned back into farmland after densifying the bulk of their populations into the cities, but in order to do that would require demolishing the vast majority of the existing suburban housing. And that wouldn't really be that much of a loss since suburban housing, in addition to being a horrible use of land, also tends to be built out of wood and plasterboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good luck