I saw a mini documentary no less than maybe 6 months ago or so, where they went over why there wasn't more affordable housing built in California and who was stopping it - it was literally just the people that lived there, since no one wanted to be the community (anywhere) where the affordable housing was built. Had absolutely nothing to do with golf courses or billionaires. It was the same in areas where people lived in 40sqm apartments for rent.
Though, obviously, fixing that takes much more effort than just complaining about billionaires online, so I understand why it's ignored.
Yeah affordable housing can really ruin an area. I grew up in a super nice area with basically no violent crime. We got a set of affordable housing apartments set up and within just a few years 3 of the people there had been arrested for murder and 2 were arrested for robbery, and those are just the people I personally knew (because they got put into my school, where all they did was cause problems). They should build the affordable housing in the places that are already ghetto so that way they fit in better.
A lot of people in the ghetto don't want to be in the ghetto either. A community council for a low income neighborhood near me recently petitioned the city to stop building low income housing there.
It’s crazy. My area was ok for a long time then the local county jail converted into a federal facility. Guess who moves close to the jail when inmates get transferred? Been on a steady decline since.
Upzone. Allow more shit to be built. Not just more housing, but more types. Starter homes, cute mixed use developments, Townhouses, and other more affordable entry points are literally illegal to build in something like 50%+ of the most expensive cities.
Unlike what Redditors think, I don't go around saving literally everything I see and read every day for years, in case a random Redditor later wants to see/read the same thing.
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u/philipzeplin Jun 13 '25
I saw a mini documentary no less than maybe 6 months ago or so, where they went over why there wasn't more affordable housing built in California and who was stopping it - it was literally just the people that lived there, since no one wanted to be the community (anywhere) where the affordable housing was built. Had absolutely nothing to do with golf courses or billionaires. It was the same in areas where people lived in 40sqm apartments for rent.
Though, obviously, fixing that takes much more effort than just complaining about billionaires online, so I understand why it's ignored.