“Already, the bill has electrified supporters — including the pro-development YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) coalition sponsoring it — who believe California’s attachment to single-family neighborhoods is strangling the state”
The single family home where the kids can go out into the backyard and play. Mom can have her garden and dad can mow the lawn. What a horrible model for a society.
“Mom can have her garden and dad can mow the lawn. “
Now dad will have to find another acceptable reason to drink copious amounts of beer.
No, we should all strive for a cramped apartment block where the stairwells are dangerous and smell bad (as in public housing in NYC and Chicago, or any big city that has tried this model.) s/off
You bet. They want everyone in civilian barracks...My term for condos and apartments, where they pigeonhole tens of millions already. Jammed in like sardines, one mans floor is another mans ceiling etc...
I live in SF for work. The bay area is in a housing crisis because NIMBYs (many of them quite left here) block any attempt to build higher than 2 or 3 stories because it will ruin the “feel” of their neighborhood. meanwhile, single-family homes here or in the valley go for north of $1 million because demand outstrips supply.
Hubs of economic activity like NYC, Chicago, London all require density to function. SF’s lack of density doesn’t result in everyone having single family homes, it results in middle class people being priced out of the housing market and people being forced into exurbs and two-hour commutes.
It may not be the lifestyle you want, but tens of thousands of families successfully raise kids in dense urban areas. The trick is living close to parks and in a decent part of town.