ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Concerns over a lack of parking that led councillors in St. John's, N.L., to axe a proposal for affordable housing last week are part of a
Here’s a simple suggestion – Stop cramming more houses into places where there are already tons of people.
Can’t be a problem with NIMBY-ism, if you’re in nobodies back yard at all!
The whole point of cars and personal transportation is that you can fill all of these empty places with your housing, and these people can drive to where they want to go on their own schedules. It’s not that hard.
We don’t need to cram another 10k houses onto the golf-course where people like the fact that they can’t spit out of their back window and hit their neighbors house.
Better yet - Mandate city-centers for every [X] population so that the people don’t have to drive half way across the state for their job too.
The best housing is the housing you can afford. Would I like to live in a ten million dollar mansion with dino nuggies dispensers? Sure, but I can’t afford that, so I don’t. We will never ever ever get to affordable housing and affordable living with single family homes and car dependent sprawl.
Here’s a simple suggestion – Stop cramming more houses into places where there are already tons of people.
Can’t be a problem with NIMBY-ism, if you’re in nobodies back yard at all!
The whole point of cars and personal transportation is that you can fill all of these empty places with your housing, and these people can drive to where they want to go on their own schedules. It’s not that hard.
We don’t need to cram another 10k houses onto the golf-course where people like the fact that they can’t spit out of their back window and hit their neighbors house.
Better yet - Mandate city-centers for every [X] population so that the people don’t have to drive half way across the state for their job too.
The best housing is the housing you can afford. Would I like to live in a ten million dollar mansion with dino nuggies dispensers? Sure, but I can’t afford that, so I don’t. We will never ever ever get to affordable housing and affordable living with single family homes and car dependent sprawl.