[OldGoodNewBad]

Why artificially? People move into single family dwelling neighborhoods because they have lower crime and better schools. There’s nothing artificial about selecting the best environment for yourself and your family.

Is it necessary to artificially editorialize when you’re making what is, at its root, a thinly veiled socio-political point?

[adrianmonk]

> Why artificially?

Artificial in the sense of "caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency" (see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artificial).

When prices of something get higher, people naturally try to make more of it to increase supply and cash in on that demand. If a law or zoning regulation or whatever prevents that from happening, that's artificial.

It's not really a statement about whether those laws or regulations are better overall. It's a comparison to other types of investment alternatives which follow the normal laws of supply and demand and have the (lower) earnings to go along with it.

[JAlexoid]

So why would people like you oppose development of other single family homes in your area? Or go out of your way to oppose development of high density buildings around transit stations? (Don't take it personally, but you know that many people will in principle oppose a mixed density development in not far from their homes - 5-10miles. Or pedestrianization of a street, in the middle of their town)

Look at the map of LA, where there's miles upon miles of low rise buildings... That need not be there, if a few high density blocks were created.

Or the insanity of San Francisco...

[ryandrake]

I agree. I moved to a suburban single family home neighborhood specifically because I like the environment of a neighborhood with suburban single family homes. That suits me and my family. Others might like low-rise apartment buildings and townhomes, and they should have access to neighborhoods with that type of housing. Others might like high-rise apartments, and those neighborhoods should be available too. Why is it so bad that many different types of neighborhoods exist?

[mixmastamyk]

Nimbys fight against higher density housing everywhere. Read the BANANA definition up thread.

[OldGoodNewBad]

As an Oregonian I’m a little disgusted with social activists in Portland couching their impending rape of many neighborhoods across the state as YIMBY when this policy was designed to attack rural Oregon specifically.