• gnate@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Surround the park with shipping containers, and done! It is now 100% dystopia appropriate housing!

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        10 months ago

        Berkeley wants to turn the park where homeless people are staying into housing for homeless and undergraduates… While refreshing 60% of the park.

        Why are people upset about housing homeless and undergrads? Is this some NIMBY shit but people dont think it’s NIMBY because it’s their park this time?

        https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/

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            10 months ago

            Berkeley is a public school. They’re building government housing. But, it doesn’t matter to the groups who see outrage as a virtue and stall the progress they neverendingly clamor for.

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                10 months ago

                NIMBYs care about all sorts of things and are staunchly against progress and housing the young and poor alike. This is entirely NIMBYism dressed up in progressive aesthetics and language.

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                  10 months ago

                  Or, and this might be difficult to follow, make one of the adjacent buildings into homes and keep the park too?

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                    10 months ago

                    Since there are already buildings there and between zoning, tearing down existing buildings, building height limitations, parking minimums, moving tenants out, and possibly no net gain in units after new buildings are constructed what is accomplished?

                    Anyways miss me with the tone and do some actual investigation into this complexity.