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your quality of life will improve with more housing and scalable transportation. If nothing changes, your quality of life will be worse. It’s not rocket science. Progress is just sitting there waiting for someone to make it happen.
Atlanta’s growth model is dying—choked by the escalating costs of housing and autocentric transportation, alongside wages that can’t keep up. No simple fix will transform this vicious cycle into a virtuous one. But some guiding principles should guide our search for reinvention.
People don’t want to have the consequences of our system shoved down their eyeballs, so they support policies like this that sweep things under the rug in an incredibly cruel and inhumane way. I’m livid. You should be, too.
But the other purpose was to crack down on communal and rental living arrangements that many of the early zoning proponents found morally objectionable.
An interesting review of zoning history. I’m in favor of more multi-family housing, especially the kind of communal arrangements mentioned like “lodgers.” But I’d honestly have a hard time personally moving our family from our detached home into a multi-family building.
Gosh, I hope this helps. Atlanta is in desperate need for housing solutions.