> generally of the opinion that "maintaining a community feel" is a fool's errand
It's code for maintaining low density. (Historically, and still in some places, it codes for race, too.)
Combined with supply restrictions, low density requirements mean (a) skyrocketing prices, (b) rationing or (c) more density. A lot of the conversation has been focussed on (c), which I approve of in e.g. Cupertino, where I grew up. (Turning suburbia into a city solely impacts human concerns in a way paving over nature does not.) But (b) might have more angles to it than the traditional public housing model. (I've also been a favor of public housing built to own, where the government e.g. builds housing and sells it to first-time home buyers at a subsidized price. This not only builds wealth and avoids the patronage problem, it also creates mixed-income housing of the type that's less noxious to NIMBY's than solely low-income housing.)
It's code for maintaining low density. (Historically, and still in some places, it codes for race, too.)
Combined with supply restrictions, low density requirements mean (a) skyrocketing prices, (b) rationing or (c) more density. A lot of the conversation has been focussed on (c), which I approve of in e.g. Cupertino, where I grew up. (Turning suburbia into a city solely impacts human concerns in a way paving over nature does not.) But (b) might have more angles to it than the traditional public housing model. (I've also been a favor of public housing built to own, where the government e.g. builds housing and sells it to first-time home buyers at a subsidized price. This not only builds wealth and avoids the patronage problem, it also creates mixed-income housing of the type that's less noxious to NIMBY's than solely low-income housing.)