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emblem-man posted...

This same issue of the public not allowing home building applies to all other infrastructure as well. Public transportation, clean energy, fucking transmission lines. We are our own biggest roadblock.

This goes past just affordable housing. Why should you need public approval in some form to build an apartment complex? It's just people afraid of change who have convinced themselves that change of any kind is bad and that their aesthetic preferences is all that matters

Democratic control of land, planning, and building decisions is not bad, it's good. Complete private/corporate control wouldn't solve the problem or at least it would create other problems just as serious. The problem is people's values, racism, and the fact that homeownership has been turned into private fiefdoms and basically the only wealth building vehicle people have, rather than what it should be, shelter and community.

We gotta build inclusive values and inclusive communities and people have to choose it, it can't be imposed.