Minneapolis is pushing back against a recent Hennepin County District Court ruling that has paused the city's "Minneapolis 2040" roll-out.
      • tintory@lemm.eeOP
        5·
        2 years ago

        Except that luxury housing and Single Family houses is still being built, mid income housing is what’s on pause in Minneapolis

        eradicate single-family zoning that spanned half the city, promoting multi-family units across all areas.

      • n2burns@lemmy.ca
        41·
        2 years ago

        I’m not sure how much of the housing was supposed to be for mid to low income so I’m not sure if it’s bad for housing as well.

        Even if building exclusively “luxury apartments”, it’s going to help the housing market by upping total supply and pushing older apartments to lower income tenants.

          • n2burns@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 years ago

            If nobody is moving into luxury apartments, why would they get built? It makes no economic sense for developers to build something they can’t sell/rent.

        • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
          21·
          2 years ago

          In theory sure. But there would need to be constant new construction for this to be the case. And that’s assuming no remodeling construction.

          As we’ve seen, when investment blocks are allowed to own large segments of supply they’ll happily let units sit empty to artificially protect or inflate the price on the rest. Nimbys accomplish the same thing but voting down new development to protect the value of their homes.

          Exactly the same way ghost hiring works to keep employees in line. And why the unemployment goal is 5% not 0%. It’s not about building self sufficient people, it’s about having just enough threat to be replaced to corral dignity, demands for decency and suppress wages. It’s “sustainable” exploitation.

          The efforts of our labor, our vitality, which we substitute money for to make trade easier, is being systematically farmed away from us, with just little tweaks to increase efficiency in the operation

          Ah. Capitalism.

  • DiatomeceousGirth@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    The article is weak and just a bunch of bullets points without much info. But that website is pretty weird. The about page is full of concern about demographic changes, dog whistles about only poor people procreating, and immigration being concerning. Some decent points about healthcare privatization though. Pretty sus overall.