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Originally Posted by Crawford
Right, but I'm not just talking about cheap apartments for bus-riding poors. Many suburbs have banned any new housing except for 4,000 sq. ft.+ two-floor homes on large lots, as if every single household is a thirty/forty-something high earning professional couple with a bunch of kids.
But young people generally don't want or can't afford that kind of housing. And older people generally need a different typology. And obviously many prefer a more walkable, mixed use environment. It isn't just about housing low income families, it's about housing diversity, for different income ranges, and different age/lifestyle ranges.
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This is complete bull. If there was such high demand to build multifamily housing in suburbs with no public transportation, real estate developers would be fighting hard and suing the suburbs already, like what they do in high demand areas such as NYC or SF that have abysmal exclusionary zoning. Heck, even in cities, most affordable multifamily housing is simply unprofitable to build unless they have government subsidies attached. Most suburb local governments do not have budgets to fund those activities even if they wanted to.