As a left of center dude, I’m embarrassed that it’s the blue states that are most guilty of the restrictive zoning preventing new construction of multi family housing. NIMBY is keeping peopke in the streets. However, I’m curious Andy on this. If less restricted zoning spreads, what’s to stop investors from building into the AirBnb market, or large firms from snatching up property to build rentals? Could this not create a new set of problems? At the core of our issues is the massive inequality. Zoning won’t cure that.
"Abolish zoning" is a bad slogan, just as "defund the police" a bad slogan - it gives opponents an opportunity to paint the proposals as radical craziness (they do this anyway: proposals to abolish single family residential zoning get misrepresented as proposals to ban single family houses; but there's no need to hand them a weapon by using a bad slogan). Instead, something like "abolish single-use zoning' or "abolish exclusionary zoning" or "smart zoning" - which unfortunately aren't very catchy - might be better.
"Legalize housing" sounds pretty good - and it's also a positive slogan, not a negative one.
I presume you'd be happy with Japanese-style zoning, which has succeeded in meeting housing demand (some urban areas have net immigration, despite the overall population decline): http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
After all, nobody wants a tannery in their residential neighborhood; and the though of a multi-unit apartment next door might also be scary, even though it's common in much of Europe and east Asia, even in upscale neighborhoods.
As a left of center dude, I’m embarrassed that it’s the blue states that are most guilty of the restrictive zoning preventing new construction of multi family housing. NIMBY is keeping peopke in the streets. However, I’m curious Andy on this. If less restricted zoning spreads, what’s to stop investors from building into the AirBnb market, or large firms from snatching up property to build rentals? Could this not create a new set of problems? At the core of our issues is the massive inequality. Zoning won’t cure that.
"Abolish zoning" is a bad slogan, just as "defund the police" a bad slogan - it gives opponents an opportunity to paint the proposals as radical craziness (they do this anyway: proposals to abolish single family residential zoning get misrepresented as proposals to ban single family houses; but there's no need to hand them a weapon by using a bad slogan). Instead, something like "abolish single-use zoning' or "abolish exclusionary zoning" or "smart zoning" - which unfortunately aren't very catchy - might be better.
"Legalize housing" sounds pretty good - and it's also a positive slogan, not a negative one.
I presume you'd be happy with Japanese-style zoning, which has succeeded in meeting housing demand (some urban areas have net immigration, despite the overall population decline): http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
After all, nobody wants a tannery in their residential neighborhood; and the though of a multi-unit apartment next door might also be scary, even though it's common in much of Europe and east Asia, even in upscale neighborhoods.