People should be forced to use and own more resources than they want/need. Who cares that 6 individuals or families might have wanted an opportunity to have affordable housing and didn't need a larger personal area (because they couldn't afford it)? Shouldn't they just be priced out of the area so that existing home owners can preserve their monoculture? Seems like a cause worth fighting for.
I guess this situation can be easily misunderstood, we are talking small rural area here. With very cheap housing already.
The town near us already had this kind of housing built and it was all empty because they couldn't sell the houses because they were built too poorly. Plenty of older homes available.
This is _not_ San Francisco.
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>Seems like a cause worth fighting for.
Only where it makes sense, if there is 100 square miles of open space around you, forcing the living space inside a small town isn't the same as using the left over space in a big city wisely.
I think you may not have ever lived in a small town. The town I grew up in is 3 times the size of my current town, and I walked all over it by 4th grade. Another town we visit frequently is almost 6 times the size of my current town, and is very easy to walk all over.
Theoretically in a way, but in reality, it's not better for people to have only rentals as options, and not be able to own land. It puts all the power into to few people's hands.
I suspect most people on HN live in large cities, and viewed my post as a negative, but I live in a rural area, and there is plenty of housing and space out here.
And the people that you think are altruistic about space, simply aren't.