'Federal lands are a national resource, and the nation needs more housing' so divide up this common resource for private profit - rather than re-building communities so they aren't sprawling hellholes? good grief this piece is so so so moronic and shortsighted. - ThreadSky

holz-bau.bsky.social • 44 days ago

'Federal lands are a national resource, and the nation needs more housing'

so divide up this common resource for private profit - rather than re-building communities so they aren't sprawling hellholes?

good grief this piece is so so so moronic and shortsighted.

Reposted from Wyatt Myskow

Love that this column pretends Las Vegas is some model for how to do this well (it’s really not) and that the current federal government would do anything to fix the fundamentals problems with building housing on public lands (sprawl and unaffordable homes).

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

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chaggles.bsky.social•44 days ago

changes little to nothing on the east coast

lindsayschack.bsky.social•42 days ago

Reading this great thread from a campsite near St George, Utah thank you @holz-bau.bsky.social
There are pockets here of great bike infrastructure-so much potential to NOT sprawl out, if going ‘up’ were considered.

bobsyouruncle.bsky.social•44 days ago

How is it possible that their are still people this dim witted working at the nytimes?
It makes no sense

alainapitt.bsky.social•43 days ago

NYTimes has really been on a roll with these bad housing takes lately.

holz-bau.bsky.social•43 days ago

yeah. i'd write a piece but they'd never run it.

holz-bau.bsky.social•44 days ago

lmao the issue isn't lack of land

daniandi4.bsky.social•44 days ago

There is so much land that is not in national parks even if land was an issue. This is such a strange take.

vancouvergordo.bsky.social•44 days ago

You like taxes? Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

daniandi4.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is not at all what I’m talking about.

zombierotten.bsky.social•44 days ago

Start with golf courses! Prime real estate.

holz-bau.bsky.social•44 days ago

at 77 square miles - st george is just slightly smaller in area than seattle - but the population is less than a quarter of seattle.

instead of densifying - appelbaum proposes putting apartments on arid, infrastructure-less land near an airport

noise pollution. air pollution. unwalkable...

holz-bau.bsky.social•44 days ago

the ~150 acres of suburban office park/retail here is nearly double the size of vienna's sonnwendviertel...

with homes for 13,000 residents, space for 20,000 jobs, hotels, cafes, restaurants, abundant open space and affordable housing.

the problem isn't the lack of land. it's visionless leadership

holz-bau.bsky.social•44 days ago

outside of the water issue (and it's massive, and growing - this isn't the type of place that is resilient to a changing climate) - this small strip of land representing just one third of one percent of total city land - could house 40% of newcoming population in a dense, walkable neighborhood

holz-bau.bsky.social•44 days ago

this issue is *pervasive*

US planners and city government are fundamentally incapable of delivering the car-light people-centric places that are popping up all over asia and the EU

like blautal on a former mall in ulm.

1000 homes and open space on just 16 acres.

https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-ASTOC_mit_bauchplan_._gewinnen_in_Ulm_8475168.html

chipdaniels.bsky.social•44 days ago

Back in the 90s, a consortium of environmental groups and Bank of America published a study documenting that single family suburbs consume more in tax expenditures than they generate in revenue because on a per mile basis, the infrastructure just can't be sustained by so low a tax base

gspeng.bsky.social•44 days ago

St George residents use 350 gallons per capita per day. UT wants to build a new pipeline from CO River to St George rather than meter residential water. Angelenos use 70 on avg with wide variations. Residents of new apts use 40 gpcd. We should build senior housing in LA so they don't move to UT/NV

woolie.meowmeow.city•44 days ago

"Build homes on federal land" doesn't mean middle class subdivisions, it means luxury ranches and dachas on dozens of acres to reward rich Trump supporters.

chipdaniels.bsky.social•44 days ago

Last time I checked, the entire city of Paris, France has just slightly larger population than the San Fernando Valley suburb of LA, despite the Valley being about 6 times the area (260 sq. mi to 40 sq mi.

yonahfreemark.com•44 days ago

Great thread.

anoriginalmango.bsky.social•44 days ago

Excited to hear how this person thinks new housing in Stehekin will solve Seattle’s housing crisis

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