We don’t have the luxury of space to build out mini-bunglow sprawl. We’re already over capacity with the regular sprawl. This notion that we all deserve white picket-fenced yards is antiquated.
Better laws means actual affordable housing: subsidized housing based on income levels, so the poorest can have a place to sleep and bathe securely and peacefully. There’s nothing that necessitates tiny bungalow jungles and the hideous infrastructure convolutions they demand.
We don’t have the luxury of space to build out mini-bunglow sprawl. We’re already over capacity with the regular sprawl. This notion that we all deserve white picket-fenced yards is antiquated.
Better laws means actual affordable housing: subsidized housing based on income levels, so the poorest can have a place to sleep and bathe securely and peacefully. There’s nothing that necessitates tiny bungalow jungles and the hideous infrastructure convolutions they demand.
Stewart Hicks noted that a lot of housing being built now are urban studios.
https://youtu.be/ejPOLhfBpy8
This kind of housing is in very high demand, but it can only really get built in places with decent transit.