I live in a coastal city where the working class and poor have been priced out of their homes by the wealthy transplants that moved here for lucrative tech jobs. You think making buildings include enough parking for their residents takes away from the homeless. - ThreadSky

ravuun.bsky.social • 43 days ago

I live in a coastal city where the working class and poor have been priced out of their homes by the wealthy transplants that moved here for lucrative tech jobs. You think making buildings include enough parking for their residents takes away from the homeless.

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ravuun.bsky.social•43 days ago

There are many folks who live in their cars because they can't afford anything else despite being employed. Those folks need the street parking. Street parking that apartment residents take up when their buildings don't provide adequate parking for their tenants.

ravuun.bsky.social•43 days ago

You can't assume that folks who live in a city will just give up their cars, especially when mass transit is underfunded, unreliable,and doesn't serve all areas equitably

hessianhunter.bsky.social•43 days ago

"Things can't get better. We have to keep spending public money on places to put a car instead of better public utilities."

hessianhunter.bsky.social•43 days ago

They could more easily afford the apartment if they weren't priced into car ownership by development patterns that prioritize parking over people. Your language approximates systemic thinking but betrays a lack of curiosity about how life works in other, poorer countries that aren't so car-centric.

ravuun.bsky.social•43 days ago

That's a pretty big 'if' LOL and I am speaking specifically about a metropolitan area here, in this country, that was never planned to become a major city. It's nice to play 'what if', but you can't ignore what already exists. In fact, the voters here turned down federal funding for a mass

ravuun.bsky.social•43 days ago

transit system decades ago because they didn't think it was necessary (incredibly short-sighted, but I was a baby at the time). Atlanta, GA ended up with that funding and now this city is struggling to play catch up after the last population boom that displaced thousands of lower income folks.

hessianhunter.bsky.social•43 days ago

Look at photos of Amsterdam in the 70s and now. Look at Paris 20 years ago vs now. Change is not only possible, it's necessary. In your mind you're fighting the greedy developers, but in reality your favored policy of mandating parking ensures that bad things continue to happen for decades to come.

hessianhunter.bsky.social•43 days ago

I think that because it's objectively true. Cars take up a lot of space and cost $20k-$80k to house. Infrastructure for cars means less space for humans. Every urban parking space represents lost apartments for a person who could walk places, bicycle, or take transit.

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