I guess its a nice idea but really what California needs is less NIMBYs forcing all housing developments to be detached houses with gardens, instead of affordable housing blocks.
Why not both? Imagine a world where everything is a dense housing block - that sucks. Some of us want to own some land and not be butted up right against their neighbor. Or have to hear the person next door fucking their spouse or blasting loud music. No thanks.
More housing needs to exist - but ALL housing does not need to be dense multistory developments.
>Some of us want to own some land and not be butted up right against their neighbor. Or have to hear the person next door fucking their spouse or blasting loud music. No thanks.
Just about everyone is like this, and hence why housing is such a nightmare situation.
"I want a nice home that is situated in a relaxing quiet personal space, that is a short commute from my well paying job, and an even shorter drive to restaurants and entertainment"
- 90% of people
To support a business (as employees or patrons), there needs to be a certain amount of people visiting. This number doesn’t evenly fit into a 1mi radius if everyone is on a 0.25-acre lot. So the radius expands, which means you can no longer walk; but public transit follows similar rules to businesses, there needs to be a certain ridership to make it make sense, which means we’re now primarily using personal transportation. Which is fine, bikes are fine, but we both know it’s going to be cars. Which means parking at both ends, inflating the distances further… so it’s a 15-minute-drive instead of a 5-minute walk to the nearest grocery store because the density just is not there.
You can’t make something that’s far away from other people and yet close to the things that need people to continue existing.
Yes, we should, but it's incredibly hard to get people (and employers) to move to some place that isn't established. And usually the locations where there is establishment have a good reason that they were located there and not where you are trying to move it to.
Modern apartment blocks have excellent noise isolation — the foot of solid concrete between me and my neighbour prevents nearly any noise from getting through. If I hear a sound, it’s from the traffic six stories below.
>Some of us want to own some land and not be butted up right against their neighbor. Or have to hear the person next door fucking their spouse or blasting loud music. No thanks.
You could just not butt up to the very edge of your own lot, and everyone else can use their own as they wish. Another option would be to buy the lots around you and not build anything on them.
The thing with NIMBYs is that they want everyone else to pay for their desires.
More housing needs to exist - but ALL housing does not need to be dense multistory developments.