Do Single-Family Homes Threaten the Planet?
21st November 2013
Hint: The Crust think they do.
A plan to squeeze most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area into multifamily housing offers a test case of whether land-use bureaucracies nationwide, encouraged by the Obama administration, should be allowed to transform American lifestyles under the pretext of combating climate change.
Currently, 56 percent of households in the nine-county Bay Area live in single-family homes. That number would drop to 48 percent by 2030, under a high-density development blueprint called Plan Bay Area, recently enacted by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
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Planners admit this will make single-family housing in the already high-priced Bay area even less affordable.
Response Objection 1, quoting George Carlin: ‘The planet will be fine. But the people will be fucked.’