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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Urban Planning Megathread - I'll NIMBY in your YIMBY
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twodot
Aug 7, 2005

You are objectively correct that this person is dumb and has said dumb things
Obstructing market rate development on the basis you want that development to be publicly owned is nonsense in most areas. Like the Seattle city council recently blocked/delayed a new 442 unit building, and the council definitely didn't follow up with "Also here's our new tax to fund the city building its own 100 million dollar tower". (If they did that would be awesome, but let's not pretend that objecting to market rate development generally leads to public development)

twodot fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 16, 2018

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twodot
Aug 7, 2005

You are objectively correct that this person is dumb and has said dumb things

SousaphoneColossus posted:

The opposition to that tower was overwhelmingly because it was going to replace the Showbox, not specifically because it was private development. The council wouldn't have stopped it if it was just going up on an empty lot.
Right, the thing I'm illustrating is I can name a lot of examples of private development being blocked by city action, and not a lot of examples where the city blocking private development leads to the city building public housing. Opposition to private development basically never helps public development.

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