The main problem is zoning laws - too much land zoned for single-family residences only, a lack of mixed-use zoning and walkability, and heavily restrictive laws on apartment buildings (height limits, floorplan requirements such as the infamous dual-stairway rule, etc ).
These laws exist because of NIMBY’s - people with an existing stake in the community who don’t want noisy transit, tall buildings being an “eyesore”, affordable housing bringing in more poor people.
The solution, of course, is to [REDACTED] all the NIMBY’s.
!yimby@lemmy.world, my brother/sister in construction freedom.
In the big city closest to me they just abolished single-family zoning. As soon as there’s tradespeople that have a single free second it’s going to be dope. Here, well, it’s a small town.
Yes, single family zoning is shit, and probably why there’s such a built-up shortage here in the first place. And definitely a big contributor to the near-total lack of transit.
