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		rcarr on Jan 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes Mid rise is a better solution. Beautiful buildings like the ones in New York. Dense housing, but not so dense that it starts to become dystopian.

asdff on Jan 3, 2023 [–]

The solution is to peg it to job growth. Today in nyc you have nimbys in greenwich village who hope it stays as it looked the last 50 years for the next 50 years. Such a neighborhood near so many jobs and transit cannot remain a mid rise tenement district until the end of time.

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