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Comment by rpcope1

18 hours ago

Not to say something isn't broken, but I've come to view a lot of these types of articles as just a subtle form of advertising and lobbying for development firms, especially the ones that just build tons and tons of 3-4 level apartment blocks. It's reductionist to the point of absurdity to say "things just slowed down because of X" when so much has changed in the last 50+ years, it's hard to read that with a straight face.

Just allowing city hall to get their palms greased to build infinity "luxury" comblocks everywhere isn't going to change shit. Communities should have a strong say in what does or does not go, barring major critical infrastructure, and if you don't like and don't live there, tough shit. We'd be better served putting our thumb on the scale to make it possible for an average family to be able to live well off of one income and encourage resiliency by decentralizing and making it favorable to do more actual jobs locally ("efficiency" be damned).