alt Hacker NewsYour proposal flies in the face of what people actually want. Everyone wants a detached home with a yard. No one wants to live in a condo, an oct or a quad, or even a row house, as a permanent life-long dream. Not the people who currently own detached homes and not the people looking to buy homes. Everyone sees high-density housing as a stepping stone towards detached home ownership. Detached home ownership is the dream, the more land it comes with, the better.
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> Detached home ownership is the dream, the more land it comes with, the better.
Not everyone wants to live in the country or the suburbs. I wouldn't live there if you paid me.
> Everyone wants a detached home with a yard. No one wants to live in a condo, an oct or a quad, or even a row house, as a permanent life-long dream.
This is easily disproven by the state of the real estate market and relative value of said urban condos to suburban sfh
OK. Since that's what people actually want, the market should work without single-family-home zoning laws and minimum parking requirements.
Glad to see different people want different things in life.
People want the single family, but they don’t want to pay for the externalities that come with sprawl.
Price in the full cost of that sprawl and it becomes less desirable.
Most people, even in the US, don’t live in detached homes with a yard. The amount of sprawl required to accomplish that “dream” of everyone living in a detached home with a huge yard would be a disaster for the environment and commutes.
Your comment would be a lot better if you didn't use words like "everyone" and "no one".
You'd be correct if you referred to some people, but acknowledged that for plenty of people, a detached home with a yard is the last thing they want. Lawn care and home maintenance, no thanks. Let me just pay a fee for my share of building maintenance, please.
This is some suburban delusion. Do you think the people who own multimillion dollar condos in NYC would rather live in a single family home? What's stopping them?
I want to be in the heart of a bustling city where I can walk to everything and do something different every night. That's not possible in suburbia.
I in fact want none of the things you claim. I have zero interest in living in the burbs, in maintaining a yard. It is in fact my long term dream to live in the city in my wonderful apartment until I cark it.
How bizarre you think you can talk for literally everyone in existence.
I want to live in a condo rather than detached home. Private home is too much of a hassle to maintain properly and also less likely to have many different shops/restaurants within 5 min walk
> Everyone wants...
Absolutely untrue. My own desires are quite the opposite of what you describe. Besides which, tiny downtown places can often be more expensive than considerably larger ones in the suburbs.
… Eh, I think maybe you’re taking what _you_ want and assuming it is what everyone wants? Personally I couldn’t face living in the middle of nowhere.
If people actually wanted that, you wouldn't have to ban denser living.
Our choices are not the result of a free market, but one highly constrained by land use restrictions.
This is seen very clearly in housing prices. Dense living is hugely undersupplied, and therefore very expensive.