It makes no sense that so many major American cities have 20-50% of their land be mostly empty surface parking when there is a housing crisis. The government should be doing all it can to incentivize building high density housing and mixed use development. This is an emergency.
We also need to reform environmental regulations like California’s CEQA and local zoning laws that make it impossible to build high density housing.
@davidhogg111 Government doesn't build cities dude, private enterprise does
@davidhogg111 We don’t have a true housing crisis. As for the affordability issue, we can thank government and their interventions. The solution isn’t more government overreach, it’s less.
@davidhogg111 David is at the “let’s use government to change some undesirable short term situations”. Can’t wait until he reaches the “the only hope we have left is for gov to force behavioral change on people to fix all the problems”… watching children develop as socialists is heartwarming
@davidhogg111 Keep at it @davidhogg111 - you’re correct. But this needs to be prioritized
@davidhogg111 Well, first, let's quit allowing a million a year to come in illegally. Housing isn't a Gov't job. and there no good at it
@davidhogg111 I agree. That said, there are a couple of other things that can be done: we can allow the easy conversion of commercial units to residential, and allow increases in density and height. For all of these, we need looser zoning.
@davidhogg111 You can have my car and my land when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.