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‘Not in my backyard’ pushback blocking much-needed affordable housing, experts say
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Just offering the solution. If you don't like it, you can KEEP not getting housing. I moved out into the woods to be able to afford the house that I have. The fact that you won't even posit that as an OPTION is telling. You want it your way, or no way. Well guess what...you're not getting it your way, so you're gonna have nothing.
Car-dependent sprawl only happens when the ONLY thing you're building is housing. If you use zoning laws to ensure that you get enough businesses in the area, then it's not car dependent any more and you're just beginning your own little city in a place where there isn't one already.
You don't have to start in an ALREADY established city.
I could go about this stuff for hours, I could literally throw the book at you, but I haven't because life demands that I not spend it arguing with strangers on the internet. I do know that you were at 14 down votes, and I thought your comment was a little older. I'm not accusing, I'm sincerely asking: Did you delete your old comment and make it again to shake off the downvotes?
Huh? No, it's still there at -17. My reply wasn't ever at -14; but my parent comment was.
Oh, crap, nevermind, I got wicked confused. Sorry about that!