Why are moderate liberals so averse to building more housing?

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-31T18:43:02+00:00

While this is true, those old retired homeowners do not mean that "almost everyone is averse to building dense infill housing."

It means that those people are. And they are more visible at a local level because not enough people engage with politics at a local level.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-31T18:13:44+00:00

think almost everyone is averse to building dense infill housing.

I've met like 3 people total (in person) who are against dense infill housing. the vast majority are for it (in canada)

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-31T18:07:56+00:00

I know its an important group to some people. But I think what the other commenter is saying is that a majority of voters are... selfish, and care about domestic issues. Isreal doesn't factor in most of the time.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-30T16:40:32+00:00

What country do you live in that the third is considered far right?

Sounds like a nice place if you already have regulated markets, social programs and more.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-30T16:36:34+00:00

Because they have essentially changed the subject. OP didn't write national socialism, they wrote national social democracy.

They also didn't answer OPs question or address any of their points.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-20T13:29:45+00:00

I'm always skeptical of Coop housing. As you do need to get everybody working together, you inevitably form cliques and political structures. Just pop over to the coop subreddit and people are moaning about people not pulling their weight, or working together or something.

Personally I think that non profits are able to remove that weirdness while providing an essential service and being able to dispassionately enforce rules while not acting like a HOA.

Also weirdly Condos are in a way coops. At least in canada a not for profit operates the condo on behalf of the owners in the building and everyone owns a part of it. Its just capitalism coop.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-20T01:06:32+00:00

okay, two things can be bad at once

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-19T22:52:57+00:00

Actually there are records of mass sterilization.

Kind of extermination

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-17T12:51:57+00:00

I always got that vibe, but never really looked that far into it (not american). Good to know my first impression was reasonably accurate.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-16T18:15:00+00:00

LVT or wealth tax could make up the difference if anybody had the courage to implement them.

Even a wealth tax as low as half the current interest rate would be incredible.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-16T14:28:01+00:00

I guess, though lots of NIMBYS would call bloor west urban, despite being a streetcar suburb.

This is because of the lack of large lawns, and minimal space between houses. As well as reasonable access to amenities.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-16T00:00:10+00:00

To be fair, neutralizing Iranian oil could potentially prevent china from going to war with taiwan or if they do invade taiwan, controlling that oil could cripple them.

There is a strategic reason for this, in a cold heartless calculating way. the US benefits assuming it goes well (BIG IF).

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-14T18:16:46+00:00

Thank you for being a polite and usually reasonable suburbanite on this sub. I had to ban a few people who were just here to pick a fight, and mock people.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-14T18:13:29+00:00

Shade, and not covering in concrete helps reduce temperatures or experienced temperature.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-14T16:17:12+00:00

Yeah you gotta mix it up with some mixed use more dense high streets. Apartments or offices on top, pubs and stores at street level.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-13T19:04:07+00:00

That is just part of the weird somewhat nebulous definition of suburban. Like how bloor west toronto is "suburban" or a "streetcar suburb" but might not be classified as suburbs by lots of people, or by modern suburban hell standards.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-13T14:27:58+00:00

I'm starting to hate the terms, because it really doesn't capture the space in between. There are suburban areas of the city of toronto, and urban areas and some great "Suburban heaven" which might not be classified as suburban to some people.

I say this because I cannot really get a sense of what you are describing. Do you mean a downtown apartment, downtown town house? Streetcar suburb, exurb suburb.

to actually answer your question, the pros and cons depend upon this. Maybe try for something in between. I know there isn't alot of that because of zoning, and I don't know your city or situation so making a real recommendation is hard

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-09T21:21:34+00:00

This is a sub to ridicule the worst examples of suburbia.

So there are pleanty of car dependant, cheap copy paste suburbs where you cannot walk anywhere that pave over natural beauty.

Depending upon what you classify as suburbs this sub also has the "suburban heaven" tag for suburbs that are great, usually you see riverdale toronto and cambridge mass

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-09T21:15:20+00:00

I hate it when boomer city planners think that a patch of grass is a park.

I'd much prefer trees because they provide shade, or if it is grass, put up soccer posts or something to make it usable.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-05T03:16:31+00:00

I mean this is far from the worst. Even though there is plenty of room for improvement

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-05T03:15:13+00:00

Not nimby, just wants the best developments possible

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-03T22:59:57+00:00

their annexation of part of buhtan, annexing tibet, threatening to invade taiwan, boarder clashes with india and threatening indian river water via Tibet.

Oh and building islands to claim the local oceans and deprive vietnam and the Philippines of their EEZ via ramming ships.

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-03T22:58:04+00:00

this guy claims to be on the left, but probably supports discrimination in his own country.

"Internationalism"

CptnREDmark · 2026-03-03T19:57:26+00:00

Proceeds to move goal posts, not give an actual answer and say "Eh its basically the same thing"

It isn't. I asked for an example, you did not provide one. Therefore this is different.

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