The USA would rather make people homeless than build housing without parking, study finds

https://feddit.uk/post/45270408

The USA would rather make people homeless than build apartments without parking, study finds - Feddit UK

Lemmy

Editorialized title aside… the thing about parking is that in the US, we’re sparse and spread out and need cars in most places.

You want to eliminate cars? Build densely. Replace great swaths of our suburbs with medium to high density housing + commercial spaces where people don’t need cars to go shopping or eat at restaurants or grocery shop. Then you’re also dense enough to be able to support great public transportation. And then you can greatly reduce the number of cars.

It’d be great. I’d love to be able to walk^[well, roll, as a wheelchair user] to shopping and restaurants. I’d love to take good public transportation to my doctor visits and elsewhere.

But that requites a radical re-thinking about how we live, and then a radical re-building.

I’d be all for it - the cost savings of not owning a vehicle would be fantastic, and while electric cars wll help, congestion and pollution are even less of a problem with a great public transportation network.

I wonder what are between the buildings in these low-density cities? 🤔

The buildings are the low density and all the space between. That’s the problem.

  • sprawling low density detached housing developments on at least 1/4 acre lots, each
  • single-story shopping strips/plazas with massive parking lots
  • werehouses and other 1/2 story commercial and industrial zones
  • sprawling office parks with 2 story buildings and big parking lots
  • the occasional undeveloped 100 acre lot or remnant of a working farm here and there
  • lots of wide roads, median strips, with massive setbacks (stroads) to connect all of the above