For many people yea, but I’ve also had many conversations where very left friends and acquaintances will argue that we shouldn’t density because:
- more dense housing makes housing more expensive (and trying to explain why this isn’t true to them is usually met with some form of “nuh uh, capitalist simp”
- if housing is built by developers and not the government then new housing will be such bad quality that you might as well die instead of have a home
- anything short of the proletariat revolution and the end of history isn’t good enough, so we should oppose density so that the market fails even more and capitalism can finally collapse.
(This is all in Seattle, I’m sure the cocktail party conversations vary around the country)
Dense housing is great until you're the first one to build in your block and then someone slaps a few 50 story buildings near you and your city hall doesn't give a damn about water usage and sewage.
Source: living in a developing country where regulations suck and am facing this awful problem.
- more dense housing makes housing more expensive (and trying to explain why this isn’t true to them is usually met with some form of “nuh uh, capitalist simp”
- if housing is built by developers and not the government then new housing will be such bad quality that you might as well die instead of have a home
- anything short of the proletariat revolution and the end of history isn’t good enough, so we should oppose density so that the market fails even more and capitalism can finally collapse.
(This is all in Seattle, I’m sure the cocktail party conversations vary around the country)