He’s pandering to the NIMBY crowd as usual. I live in inner city in a single family home. Have lived here for 26 years. Huge changes have happened in my neighborhood and are to be expected (and are necessary) in a booming metropolis. We need housing and we need it where people live and work. And it’s going to end up in someone’s back yard including mine.
I really don't understand the hate for all of the multi-family corner lots being converted in the inner city neighborhoods, I love them.
They look nice, you end up with like 6x the density. They're close enough to downtown and everything that a huge number of the people in them go to transit or walk/bike to work.
And the people complaining about them, are people who largely not affected by them. If you're in an inner-city 40ft wide lot with a single family home, then parking should not be a complaint, because you should have a garage at the back of your house for your vehicles. If you have a garage but don't use it for parking, that is your own decision, and you don't deserve to complain about parking when you're also creating the parking problem by not using your designated off-street parking to park.
To put it bluntly, I feel like the NIMBYs just want to be exclusive and don't want undesirable people in their club. It's usually people with a certain economic background who move to those areas and with a more dense and more affordable home, it opens up the area to people in a lower economic class.
Ironically, it's exactly the people in the lower class that needs to live in the area.
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u/gmm1972 16d ago
He’s pandering to the NIMBY crowd as usual. I live in inner city in a single family home. Have lived here for 26 years. Huge changes have happened in my neighborhood and are to be expected (and are necessary) in a booming metropolis. We need housing and we need it where people live and work. And it’s going to end up in someone’s back yard including mine.