• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      In the United States at least, your local government’s public hearings for new housing developments kinda begs to differ.

      People will demand the homeless be eliminated from their area while simultaneously opposing development of housing or shelters for the homeless in their area.

      So maybe you’re right though: they don’t hate the apartments more, they simply can’t make up their mind on which they hate more.

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        1 year ago

        I think it’s more so that people don’t want an apartment complex built in their backyard, not that they are opposed to them being built in an area where there is proper infrastructure

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          1 year ago

          NIMBY!!

          Where do you place the proper infrastructure then? It’s always going to be in someone’s “back yard” as you put it.

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            Well there’s considerable difference between an apartment complex in a suburb not designed for heavy traffic and less developed areas where there’s room for expansion for infrastructure.

            We can’t expand roads in my area, either for an extra lane (which I know is a sin) or for buses because it would be right up on houses at that point.

            However, just a few miles down the road on the main drag, there’s undeveloped land that would be perfect. Build it there.

            When I say “backyard” I mean literally in your backyard. Instead of name calling and downvoting, have a fucking conversation and ask in a respectful manner what somebody means. Stop being a douche because you automatically assume somebody who thinks slightly differently than you is wrong.

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              1 year ago

              lmao make up your mind

              do you want to have a conversation without name calling? Then leave out the name calling or kindly get fucked

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                Yeah, “in stead of name calling, stop being a douche” is not the MOST consistent argument ever 😂

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                1 year ago

                Tired of being nice. I do it all the time and it’s never returned in kind.

                Lemmy users act like this is a different place, that it’s a more wholesome internet, what a joke. It’s as bad as anywhere else.

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                  1 year ago

                  I wasn’t being mean spirited with my original comment, it was a legitimate question. Whenever I hear people say something like “I don’t want that!” I like to find out why. It’s just curiosity. Sorry if it came across mean.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      We’re not building homes, we’re not focussing on density. But apparently our elected officials have no problem letting people set up shanty towns. Where do you think the priorities lay?

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        What do you mean we’re not building homes? I have plenty of homes and apartments being built in my city that cater to lots of strata of incomes.

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      1 year ago

      Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.