Why Historic Preservation Districts Should Be a Thing of the Past

[Cal Carpenter]

26. I agree

I've been watching a small city get developed to increase density and virtually all the new housing is luxury condos and apartments. The cost of housing is skyrocketing regardless of the quantity of new downtown units. The working class is being pushed out the areas in which they work. The small amount of open public space downtown is being parceled off. It's not helping slow down the sprawl on the edges of town, and don't even get me started on the farce of the tax breaks the out-of-town developers get for including a small number of 'affordable units' in the developments...

The developers are gonna keep winning all over the place since they have the power and influence, but this idea that it is somehow going to keep housing costs more affordable is just bullshit in most situations. So the fact that this argument gets used just pisses me off, regardless of how I feel about historic preservation, downtown density vs sprawl, etc.