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The Great Compression | Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us. (www.nytimes.com)

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These remind me of the post-1906 earthquake shacks. Better built attached housing would likely let people live better at a similar, if they could manage to agree on reasonable rules about living just a bit closer.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Enough fucking sprawl.

We don't have enough surface for homes, hoarded greenspace lawns, all the roads, plus wild space plus farms plus plus plus...

Build up. Tax the hell out of anything single-family or single-storey.

Tax credits if density builders buy a home adjacent to wild space or farmland, and hold it through its rezoning back to something beneficial so it's removed from the sprawl machine.