[noah91734]

> Ensuring some minimal level of architectural consistency on a dense city block is a good thing.

Check zillow. Of the 32 units for rent in Brooklyn Heights, the cheapest is a tiny $2,600/month studio. The median rent is $4,500/month, and that's for an apartment with one bedroom and one bathroom.

No, I don't think allowing a 200 year old private rule to reduce living space in an age of incredible housing scarcity is good. I could not care less about your architectural consistency when it is part of the reason why people are sleeping on the streets and others are paying most of their income on rent.

[jmoss20]

"sleeping on the streets" and "living in Brooklyn Heights" are hardly the only two options here.

[noah91734]

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

[dangus]

There are a lot of bad zoning laws and covenants out there that encourage housing scarcity. This is not one of them.

[rwmj]

There's zero chance this particular covenant is reducing living space, instead it's preventing some billionaire from building some obnoxious entrance across the existing sidewalk.

[throwitaway222]

The us is huge

[daedrdev]

And the market has shown where people would like to live

[forgetfreeman]

If by like to you mean are forced to to escape poverty...

[nradov]

Are you claiming that it's impossible to escape poverty by moving to North Dakota and getting a job in the oil & gas industry?

[forgetfreeman]

Are you claiming oil patch jobs aren't a rounding error per capita? Lets be clear here, you're for real claiming that a career track that employs fewer people in the continental US than Pizza Hut is relevant to a discussion of rural poverty?

[hanniabu]

Without sacrificing health working with chemicals

[dann0]

No, people go to where the resources and opportunities are.

Markets are for maximising profits. Housing should not be a market.