When it comes to addressing the housing crisis, few people think about zoning. The correlation isn’t easily apparent, despite this being the most powerful tool cities have.
How Vancouver made affordability illegal
https://www.straight.com/living/how-vancouver-made-affordability-illegal
8 Comments
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
More than one word: zoning was used as a weapon of class warfare a long time ago and needs updating.
Also: cheap clickbait title to a news page littered with notification/subscription spam. Archive.is is needed.
Rocket@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
Is it not working as a weapon anymore?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 2y
Only in the deep recesses of the minds of people who will only ever see themselves as victims.
Rocket@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
What changes would you recommend to see it become a useful weapon again?
RehRomano@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
I'd be curious to hear why restrictive zoning limiting access to a majority of our largest cities is not considered weaponizing. Do you really think this isn't a problem anymore?
banana@communick.news · 7 pts · 2y
Helen Lui has been hitting it out of the park with her recent articles. She is a good one to follow on Twitter for this type of stuff, too.
Rocket@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
Huh? In my experience, that's the first thing people think about.
Hell, a significant number of housing-related articles posted here are about suggesting alternative affordability solutions to remind us that there are other approaches we can try when trying to fix zoning has been unsuccessful.
RehRomano@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
I think it's easy to forget communities like this one, twitter, or even city-related subreddits are still very, very small fractions of the general population. People I talk to outside these bubbles are shocked to learn it's practically illegal to build an apartment in 80% of the land in Vancouver and Toronto, or the further implications on affordability.