• aleph
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    5 days ago

    California has a housing crisis across the board. NIMBYism and city zoning practices are artificially preserving neighborhoods with expensive, single family homes over what is actually needed: multi-family condos and apartments, combined with brand new social housing projects and homeless shelters.

    This is a good start, but a lot more needs to be done.

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      4 days ago

      New builds are edit incentived to be higher density

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        No, they’re not. In the past couple of years new legislation has been passed which incentivizes new builds to be high density, but there’s still a lot of pushback from home owners and cities against building them.