This problem is easy to resolve. Round up the people who are promoting the idea and have them shot. (After a fair trial, of course!)
This has Agenda 21 written all over it. A UN plan if you can call collectivism a plan. Corral and control the populace.
In America this is going nowhere, in Amerika?
This is an idea that governmental agencies in the Bay Area have been planning, pushing, advocating, and moving forward for nearly 30 years. I remember some years ago, they wanted to get rid of parking spaces at businesses, so as to force people to use public transportation. They figured if there was not parking at your work, then you would have to take the bus, ride a bike, yatta, yatta.
That evolved to only getting rid of some of the parking placed but making businesses pay for those spaces. Every scheme you can think of, they have it covered.
Ideally, here is what they want. They want folks to live upstairs of where they work. Yup, that’s right. You just slip on the old green worksuit and little red star, head down the stairs and begin slicing bologna or whatever your job is deemed to be by the state. isn’t it glorious!
Who knew all those old Soviet apartment buildings were saving the planet.
If only we could be more like North Korea.
It is easier for DHS or the Ready Reserve Corps to surround and isolate a high-rise apartment building to contain hundreds for interrogation than accomplish the same thing in a large acreage sub-division.
This is not a city remedy nor even a national remedy but an international remedy in keeping with the aspirations of leftists everywhere. In other words this is not an isolated event but part of a universal dream of the left. Note the bribery from Washington.
Of course, all of this is predicated on a lie, global warming, and made arguably necessary by a man-made policy, unrestricted immigration. All of this is unnecessary and will be increasingly unnecessary in the digital age when commuting becomes something your parents or grandparents did.
The wet dream of every Free Trade Communist Globalist....seize your property...seize your home.
We must have hukous as in China and only those in the megacities will be permitted to, “prosper”.
Right. And where is the empirical evidence that crowded, filthy, vermin-ridden apartments are more environmentally friendly than houses?
Small towns and suburbs are generally not filthy and strewn with trash. Big cities are. Diseases also spread quite easily through big cities. Not to mention that these caged, crowded lifestyles are dehumanizing and cause a great amount of stress.
I have read enough leftists gushing over the wonders of city life to realize that the urge to force everyone to live in cramped apartments does not stem from any misguided concern for the environment. They actually believe that their elusive socialist utopia can be achieved by forcing everyone to live in cities—they imagine that their love of cities is shared by everyone. Or would be shared, if leftists could just force everyone to live that way long enough to realize how much they like it.
Reminds one of the NKVD searching uncle’s house in Doctor Zhivago to be sure it shelters the correct number of proles.
Funny that the same thing is coming to the U.S.
Eliminating the mortgage tax deduction would do a lot to move this cause forward.
PLUS, it would have the support of a bunch of Freepers.
——A plan to squeeze most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area into multifamily housing offers a test case of whether land-use bureaucracies nationwide-——
Nationwide...?....I highly doubt that....
The vast majority of the country land use are elected county officals....
If they like their cushy jobs....the 10 foot pole rule goes into effect..
The insanity from the left keeps on coming without end. glad I am getting old.
There are too many people in this country that won’t be satisfied until we’re all living in Soviet squalor.
Communism. Re-ordering the middle class to the political bodies’ general liking. For their “good” of course.
Well, if the people of the Bay Area are fine with being herded like cattle in exchange for being able to gay it up as much as they like, then I guess they deserve it.