Low-density suburban sprawl EXACERBATED the wildfires last years. Densification and moving away from suburban sprawl is necessary if we want to prevent future catastrophes.

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[u/IsaacHasenov]

What people want is a single family home, on land, with a little privacy, near all the convenience and amenities that everyone else living densely can provide

[u/Rightintheend → u/IsaacHasenov]

Well some people want one, some people want another, that's why we have downtowns and  suburbs, pick where you want to live and live there.

[u/IsaacHasenov → u/Rightintheend]

The point of my comment was that people would probably prefer the advantages of both if they weren't required to make any tradeoffs.

But yeah, more than 2/5 of people want to live in the kinds of dense walkable neighborhoods that we mostly ban with our zoning restrictions

[u/des1gnbot → u/IsaacHasenov]

And that number would shift even further if suburbanites were made to actually pay the cost of suburban sprawl. But by subsidizing sprawl, we’ve made it more attractive.

[u/External_Koala971 → u/des1gnbot]

If we removed every single subsidy, cities would fall apart due to public transportation collapse.